Originally Posted by
Aileron
Is there something wrong with OCZ? My friend says OCZ is Toshiba's retail brand.
Toshiba owns OCZ, but as of last I checked, OCZ still sells drives with multiple types of controllers (vs. Toshiba, who uses their own in their own-branded OEM drives.)
Originally Posted by
FN-GM
I work for a IT service provider in the UK. OCZ are very unreliable compared to other SSD's. In fact the OCZ drives have a higher failure rate than the traditional HDD's. Would not recommend!
I have not heard about problems with them in the last couple of years; it was certainly the common wisdom about them back when they were using Sandforce controllers on the Vertex series and with the first generation of the drives after they bought Indilinx.
Originally Posted by
Aileron
How about SanDisk, then?
SanDisk has quite a number of different lines of drives; the Ultra II and Extreme Pro both use modern Marvell controllers and their own (joint venture with Toshiba) flash. I haven't used them, but anecdotally they're quite good, and the Crucial drives using the same controllers (but different firmware, and Micron flash) are my usual preference these days.
Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
FWIW I had an OCZ Vertex in my laptop for the few years I had the laptop. No trouble with it.
I've had several Vertex 2 drives and one Vertex 3, and never had any problems with either, but when my employer was buying both in bulk, we had a slightly higher than average failure rate in server use.
The early production of (and early firmware for) the Sandforce SF-1200 series of controllers were really problematic; really, really fast for their time when they worked (and assuming you weren't using them to store highly-compressed media files) ... but very problematic. They were in a VAST range of different brands' SSDs, and every one of them had problems back then, although most of those were fixed in later firmware.
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For general use, any SSD from any reputable brand is going to be fine. For the impatient, going with something beyond a bottom-of-the-line value drive MAY be worth it -- although I'm generally among the impatient and am doing fine with two last generation drives -- one value drive (Samsung 840 EVO), and one drive predating Crucial splitting their line but which wasn't a great benchmarking drive even at the time (M500).
For the truly impatient, these things change very rapidly, and I recommend reading Anandtech if you have only got time to read one review site.
http://www.anandtech.com/tag/ssd
or
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9799/best-ssds for recent recommendations.
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Pure vanity, although this may help my bona fides.)