[geeks] SSD for MacBook Pro

[hike]

Amazon and Samsung show a "Five year" warranty on their Samsung 850 EVO
SSDs.

Does that change your recommendation, Phil?

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net>
wrote:

> On 06/26/15 18:04, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > On 06/26/15 16:53, Bill Bradford wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 09:32:15PM -0400, hike wrote:
> >>> My question is what is a good SSD for the Mac?
> >>> I need a 480GB--512GB SSD.
> >>
> >> Intel, Samsung, or OWC.
> >>
> >> The Samsung problems are due to ext4 + queued TRIM under Linux, AFAIK.
> >
> >
> > Hmm.  Didn't realize it was specific to ext4.  I long since stopped
> > using the ext* filesystems.  Their day has passed; there are better
> > filesystems out there.
>
> Afterthought:  If the TRIM bug isn't an issue, then ABSOLUTELY my first
> recommendation would be a VNAND Samsung 850 EVO.  Not only do they
> perform extremely well, but as previously mentioned, Samsung has enough
> confidence in them to put a *ten-year* warranty on them.
>
>
>
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