64gig SSD Advice

HyperSonic · 19 Feb 2014 at 22:45

I'm looking to get a little ssd for my laptop just to kick it back into life but there seem to be a lot of cheap and nasty drives out there

looked at the kingston v300 but heard theyve messed with the nand and slowed it down
looked at the cheaper sandisks but they seem to have reliability issues & u've got to post them to the czech rep when they die

my laptop is only sata II so the top end speed isn't needed, just the access times; what should i be looking at?

thx guys

i'm currently stalking the members market but anything that comes up is usually gone in 15mins, so got to be quick

Craig321 · 19 Feb 2014 at 22:50

Budget?

You can get a Crucial 120GB M500 for about £55 which is what I'm looking at to get some more out of a Dell D630 I got recently.

HyperSonic · 19 Feb 2014 at 22:52

good point - i've seen 64gig for as low as £40 but as i said they seem unreliable in reviews - i wouldn't pay much more

wazza300 · 19 Feb 2014 at 22:52

Corsair force Gt but they are expensive for the size,might be worth going for a 128gb drive

Craig321 · 19 Feb 2014 at 22:53

wazza300 said:
Corsair force Gt but they are expensive for the size,might be worth going for a 128gb drive

They're a bit too quick for SATA 2, not worth the extra money I don't think. An older generation 120 or 64GB would do nicely if you can get it second hand. Failing that, something like the M400/M500 second hand if you don't want to spend >£40

HyperSonic · 19 Feb 2014 at 22:55

wazza300 said:
Corsair force Gt but they are expensive for the size,might be worth going for a 128gb drive

too expensive for me i think

wazza300 · 19 Feb 2014 at 23:00

Sandisk ultra? Or an earlier ocz vertex 2

HyperSonic · 19 Feb 2014 at 23:05

wazza300 said:
Sandisk ultra? Or an earlier ocz vertex 2

sandisk ultra looks like its a good bet - not too expensive either, it's really a step up on the basic model for the few extra quid

HyperSonic · 19 Feb 2014 at 23:29

just picked up an ocz vertex 2 80gb off the MM for £35 - not bad imo

HyperSonic · 20 Feb 2014 at 08:21

btw cheers guys

that should put some life back into my laptop

Efour · 20 Feb 2014 at 08:37

i thought OCZ had the worst failure rates of all SSDs??

you can get a new sandisk 128gb for about 50 quid i thought?

HyperSonic · 20 Feb 2014 at 11:34

i thought most dodgy ssds would go quite early in their life, since this one is 2nd hand i'm hoping that it's a good one

wazza300 · 20 Feb 2014 at 13:04

some early ocz ssd's are ok

youll have to post the results when you install it,remember to use ahci mode in the bios for the sata ports

HyperSonic · 20 Feb 2014 at 14:04

will do

cheers

Craig321 · 20 Feb 2014 at 22:05

HyperSonic said:
just picked up an ocz vertex 2 80gb off the MM for £35 - not bad imo

Cool, perfect for an old laptop.

Efour said:
i thought OCZ had the worst failure rates of all SSDs??

you can get a new sandisk 128gb for about 50 quid i thought?

HyperSonic said:
i thought most dodgy ssds would go quite early in their life, since this one is 2nd hand i'm hoping that it's a good one

A friend of mine still has a Vertex 2 going strong and my Vertex 3 is still showing 100% health after over 14,000 work hours, 1081 power ups, over 11TB read and 8TB written.

ShivP · 20 Feb 2014 at 22:23

I wouldn't get an M500 Crucial, the write speeds are fairly pathetic - shown in the pricing of them around.

Craig321 · 20 Feb 2014 at 22:45

Shivy011 said:
I wouldn't get an M500 Crucial, the write speeds are fairly pathetic - shown in the pricing of them around.

Fine for SATA 2 though

HyperSonic · 21 Feb 2014 at 08:32

Craig321 said:
Cool, perfect for an old laptop.

A friend of mine still has a Vertex 2 going strong and my Vertex 3 is still showing 100% health after over 14,000 work hours, 1081 power ups, over 11TB read and 8TB written.

hopefully i've got one of these

El Jimben · 23 Feb 2014 at 21:11

Shivy011 said:
I wouldn't get an M500 Crucial, the write speeds are fairly pathetic - shown in the pricing of them around.

Sure, faster write speeds are nice but at the end of the day the main benefit of an SSD is the snappiness you get from the fast reads.

HyperSonic · 3 Mar 2014 at 16:25

wazza300 said:
some early ocz ssd's are ok

youll have to post the results when you install it,remember to use ahci mode in the bios for the sata ports

laptop all fixed up

acer 5920 bought as spares and repair & with no hdd for £51
new internal power jack cable & external cable £7
80gb ssd £35

all in for £93 and with the ssd faster than the ones that are currently selling refurbished for £195

the battery is still good too - which did suprise me

anyway - how would you like me to benchmark it?

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