[geeks] SSD Choice between Intel and Crucial

[Andrew Jones]

On 10/19/2014 04:15 PM, Mark Benson wrote:
> My games PC has been running an Intel 320 Series SSD for about 3 years
> issue free. The Mac Pro I used to use as a daily driver also had the same
> one and worked great (that one is now in a Linux server).
>
> I have a work Thinkpad with a Crucial SSD in but it's had issues. The first
> time it was probably Lenovo's fault, the second time it was likely the
> laptop's previous owner or Lenovo. The SSD seems to still work okay as far
> as I can see.
>
> My experience tells me go with Intel, but YMMV.
>

Intel 320 series was one of Intel's own chipsets, done in house.

The 520 is a completely different animal.  Sandforce chipsets are 
terrible.  They rely on compression for performance, so anything 
incompressible is dismally slow. For example, an encrypted volume in a 
laptop.