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So taking the plunge and looking to replace my drive on notebook.
Any brands better than others to buy or any to avoid?
and the best place to buy from.
Ta
thinking of doing exactly the same so *tick*
Crucial and Samsung make very good SSDs
Not heard much love for Kingston so avoid them
I have been using a Kingston 128GB SSD in my laptop for about 3 years now. No problems so far.
As to buying, the usual suspects. [url= http://www.ebuyer.com/ ]ebuyer[/url] or [url= http://www.scan.co.uk/ ]Scan[/url] are both very good.
I'm running a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB on a SATA 3 port.
Bloody brilliant compared to a HDD.
I was looking into this and on a photography forum I use quite a few people were saying they've had multiple failures with SSDs. Which is weird because you'd imagine there would be less to go wrong with no moving parts.
Most manufacturers do a normal range and a 'pro' range, sometimes with a 5 year warranty.
If it's your only drive, I would go for the Pro. My Samsung 840 Pro has been superb and comes with good bits of software for setting up.
I would go for
Samsung
Intel
Plextor
Crucial
(they all do these two tiers of ranges, so again I would personally choose the top-tier ones)
Amazon seem to have good prices for the Samsung 840 Pro at the moment:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=samsung+pro+ssd&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=28710939368&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11433358291557318833&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_2dktpxj5lr_b
A good point our IT guy told me last week was that even if you have an SSD drive in your computer/laptop it always good practice for your back-up to be on a conventional hard drive.
This is because once an SSD drives fails all data is lost (like a memory stick) and there's no way to recover it, whereas with a conventional drive the data can be recovered from the platters (by specialist data recovery peeps).
I would only get a SSD if you have another normal drive. Follow this guide to get the most out of your SSD and make it last longer.
[url= http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds ]http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds[/url]
I went with sandisk, they do their own manufacturing R&D etc. I bought an ultraplus about 9 months ago.
Heres why I bought it: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ultra-plus-ssd-nand,review-32723.html
A good point our IT guy told me last week was that even if you have an SSD drive in your computer/laptop it always good practice for your back-up to be on a conventional hard drive.This is because once an SSD drives fails all data is lost (like a memory stick) and there's no way to recover it, whereas with a conventional drive the data can be recovered from the platters (by specialist data recovery peeps).
Not sure about that. If your main drive fails, restore from backup. If your backup drive fails replace it and back up again.
However I would use a spinning disk for backup just because it's cheap and big!
I swapped out the system drive on my desktop last night with a Samsung 840 Evo. It's made a huge difference to the speed windows loads...no more waiting when you can see the desktop, but nothing happens when you click on anything. The Samsung cloning s/w was super easy to use. £100 well spent.
Data can be recovered from an SSD, just as it can from a memory pen.
Samsung have been making their own hardware for years. The 840 pro and evo are ace drives, just getting one fitted to my new work CAD workstation.
[quote=the-muffin-man ]A good point our IT guy told me last week was that even if you have an SSD drive in your computer/laptop it always good practice for your back-up to be on a conventional hard drive.
This is because once an SSD drives fails all data is lost (like a memory stick) and there's no way to recover it, whereas with a conventional drive the data can be recovered from the platters (by specialist data recovery peeps).
You should ask him how much it would cost to recover data from a borked hard drive where you have to recover data directly from the platters. I've never heard of anybody doing that outside of very specialist applications where the data has huge value (and in that sort of application I'd expect them to be using Raid and multiple backups in different locations!)
I have Samsung Evo something model and Intel first generation both good.
🙂