[geeks] SSD Choice between Intel and Crucial

[hike]

Thanks especially for the info on the Sandforce Intel SSDs.  And to try a
larger SSD.  Amazon lowered the price of a 240GB to $95 yesterday--just $30
doubles from 120GB to 240GB.

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Noted.
> On 20 Oct 2014 00:25, "Andrew Jones" <andrew at jones.ec> wrote:
>
> > 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.
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