Best SSDs For The Money: December 2012
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Valentin N
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- Feb 25, 2011
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On boxing day, I went shopping to Spain and OCZ SSD's were on sale, along with Corsairs and SanDisk. Prices for 120GB were not that bad. Unfortunately, anything over that memory was more expensive.
Valentin, out of the 3 brands above, which one would be best value for money and which one is considered top of the top?
Valentin, out of the 3 brands above, which one would be best value for money and which one is considered top of the top?
- Oct 23, 2012
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My 2 SATA HDDs on 2 systems (including my XPS17) eventually "died" and that is why I am stuck with a rather small SSD for my taste.
The brand of the SATAs were Samsung. I do not think I wanna revisit that brand when it comes to PC Hardware.
The brand of the SATAs were Samsung. I do not think I wanna revisit that brand when it comes to PC Hardware.
- Apr 26, 2011
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Well, maybe I am a little leery of Samsung SSHD's now.
I only need around 60Gigs, so all I care about is a decent price and quality, for the most part. I would like to find a Mitsubishi/Hitachi SSHD. Those guys builds things to last.
I do have a Korean made USB stick, but I see no brand name. It has outlasted HP's and Kingston's 4 times over, is faster and cheaper, so Korea is becoming part of the solution, imho. Samsung is South Korean, but like the Japanese, they will allow Taiwan, Malaysia and China to take care of assembly.
I don't know how much can be messed up in assembly, but when it comes to assembling tech items like SSHD's, you would think there is a lot that could be fouled during assembly. Sony has endured over the years though most of their stuff has been "made in China", but it seems pretty rare that it works out that way. I sent my Galaxy II back for that reason, though it was not the only reason (ATT is a joke). I am pretty content as long as the research and development, and manufacturing of individual parts occurs in Japan, or even South Korea. I have had phones in the past that were the same models, yet one was Japan and the others were outsourced to Malaysia and China. The Japanese one worked twice as long and was still working well when I ceased to use it. The other two were having keypad issues before they became useless.
I wish China would get it right across the board, because I know they have a lot of capable people there, and billions of them; they must lack effective leadership due to corruption in gov't/business. It is a shame. China has the potential to supply the world with plenty of quality, thus letting us long for quality no more. Mass quality would be achievable without going on a witch hunt every time you want to invest in a product. Despite what anyone says, quality is able to be equal with quantity, we just need to get our heads out of the sand.
I only need around 60Gigs, so all I care about is a decent price and quality, for the most part. I would like to find a Mitsubishi/Hitachi SSHD. Those guys builds things to last.
I do have a Korean made USB stick, but I see no brand name. It has outlasted HP's and Kingston's 4 times over, is faster and cheaper, so Korea is becoming part of the solution, imho. Samsung is South Korean, but like the Japanese, they will allow Taiwan, Malaysia and China to take care of assembly.
I don't know how much can be messed up in assembly, but when it comes to assembling tech items like SSHD's, you would think there is a lot that could be fouled during assembly. Sony has endured over the years though most of their stuff has been "made in China", but it seems pretty rare that it works out that way. I sent my Galaxy II back for that reason, though it was not the only reason (ATT is a joke). I am pretty content as long as the research and development, and manufacturing of individual parts occurs in Japan, or even South Korea. I have had phones in the past that were the same models, yet one was Japan and the others were outsourced to Malaysia and China. The Japanese one worked twice as long and was still working well when I ceased to use it. The other two were having keypad issues before they became useless.
I wish China would get it right across the board, because I know they have a lot of capable people there, and billions of them; they must lack effective leadership due to corruption in gov't/business. It is a shame. China has the potential to supply the world with plenty of quality, thus letting us long for quality no more. Mass quality would be achievable without going on a witch hunt every time you want to invest in a product. Despite what anyone says, quality is able to be equal with quantity, we just need to get our heads out of the sand.
Valentin N
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Biozfear said:
I would say Intel if Samsung 840 Pro isn't an option.
I have to come back to say which is top of the top but count Samsung, OCZ and Intel among the top.
- Oct 23, 2012
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The Samsung SSD I have seen have all been rated pretty good.Maybe they are better at the SSDs than the HDDs? I dont think Mitsubishi/Hitachi make an SSD but I could be wrong.I always used Seagate HDDs and have never had one die on me yet
White Nobster said:
Hitachi does have SSD's. Its usually branded as HGST which stands for Hitachi Global Storage Technology.
That being said, I have heard good and bad results with nearly all brands of HDDs.
Wouldn't mind however to grab hold of a Hitachi SATA HDD 7200rpm, which I believe is the Z7K500 series since price is decent, considering here some stuff is over priced due to being shipped directly from UK.
- Apr 26, 2011
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I have heard that Hitachi's of the past make quite a sound when spooling. Some don't like that, but I think it would be cool to have a wicked scream from the hard disk, like a turbo spooling.
That would be very hard for me to accomplish from here, and I don't know what I would substitute for "boxing day".
- Aug 6, 2012
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I have a Corsair Vertex 4 128 GB SSD , I find it more than enough for OS and installed softwares and for data i have 3x 2TB 7200rpm HDD's.
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