Solid drives with a decent amount of space to boot. Had a 120gb as a boot drive and it wan't quite enough. 240gb seemed about right but I'm growing out of that now, even with the extra HHDs in. Going for this for sure now, silly price with the code.
SATA III Interface
2.5 Form Factor
Up to 540MB/s Read, 490MB/s Write
4K IOPS Read: 48000
4K IOPS Write: 37000
5 Year Warranty
Latest comments (21)
jaizan
1 Apr 16#21
I am completely serious. It is quite possible that this is not a representative sample of Toshiba drive buyers. However, it is the ONLY reliability data I have.
Also, comparing Amazon reviews for one SSD with another shows a consistently higher failure rates for some brands compared with others.
OCZ is one of the poor ones. They get poor Amazon reviews.
My colleague in the office does not read the reviews and has had 2 OCZ failures out of 2.
I read the Amazon reviews & buy Samsung product so far. I have 3 Samsung SSDs, no failures.
So far my methods are working.
Whether you like it or not doesn't matter to me. What does matter is my drives work and my data is available.
simon38
31 Mar 16#20
Cheers OP - Ordered 5 year warranty and so much faster than a 5400 laptop drive, who cares its not the fastest SSD :-)
So this Intel for £96
the Sandisk Ultra for £72
or the 850 EVO for £96???
ChriisM to stovy
31 Mar 16#17
Where is the 850 for that price?
Horrorwood
31 Mar 161#16
Are you actually serious?
You really think Amazon sent out 52 drives and told only those people to post the reviews?
jaizan
31 Mar 16#14
For the Toshiba, it's 8 failures out of 52, which is approximately 15%. Feel free to go and read the reviews for yourself.
Even if I misread a couple of them, the remaining failure rate would be sufficient to justify switching brand.
jonspurs
31 Mar 16#13
Voted hot - Intel reliability meant to be good and it has got 5 year warranty. I was going to post a deal for the 240GB a while ago but thought people would vote cold with their other brand SSDs SanDisk/Samsung/Integral etc...
If anyone is seriously considering the Toshiba, well 8 out of 52 Amazon reviews report failure.
I don't want a 15% chance of losing my data in the first few weeks of ownership.
No point taking all the trouble & risk. Pay up for an Intel or Samsung.
Horrorwood to jaizan
31 Mar 162#8
Pretty sure not every single person that bought one reported it as working on an Amazon review. Pretty sure it won't be anywhere near 15% failure rate.
Samsung? Every single 840 evo drive has a design flaw that causes it go stupidly slow over time.
robodan918
31 Mar 16#7
I decided to put CUK20 to a better use and went for a Samsung 950 Pro 512GB PCIe SSD for 167 (down from 245 lowest retail)
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Opening post
Solid drives with a decent amount of space to boot. Had a 120gb as a boot drive and it wan't quite enough. 240gb seemed about right but I'm growing out of that now, even with the extra HHDs in. Going for this for sure now, silly price with the code.
SATA III Interface
2.5 Form Factor
Up to 540MB/s Read, 490MB/s Write
4K IOPS Read: 48000
4K IOPS Write: 37000
5 Year Warranty
Latest comments (21)
Also, comparing Amazon reviews for one SSD with another shows a consistently higher failure rates for some brands compared with others.
OCZ is one of the poor ones. They get poor Amazon reviews.
My colleague in the office does not read the reviews and has had 2 OCZ failures out of 2.
I read the Amazon reviews & buy Samsung product so far. I have 3 Samsung SSDs, no failures.
So far my methods are working.
Whether you like it or not doesn't matter to me. What does matter is my drives work and my data is available.
with the 20% off code (before 10pm)
is that the better of the 3?
the Sandisk Ultra for £72
or the 850 EVO for £96???
You really think Amazon sent out 52 drives and told only those people to post the reviews?
Even if I misread a couple of them, the remaining failure rate would be sufficient to justify switching brand.
Samsung EVO 850
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Samsung-EVO-850-2-5-1TB-SATA-III-Solid-State-Drive-/381145347185?
£119.95!!! :disappointed:
I don't want a 15% chance of losing my data in the first few weeks of ownership.
No point taking all the trouble & risk. Pay up for an Intel or Samsung.
Samsung? Every single 840 evo drive has a design flaw that causes it go stupidly slow over time.
Thanks mods! This is the only reason Thursday is better than Friday :smiley: and it's also my birthday present to myself for next weekend
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SanDisk-Ultra-II-480GB-SSD-2-5-SATA-Disk-SDSSDHII-480G-G25-Solid-State-Drive-/111862916106?hash=item1a0b8ca40a:g:fGEAAOSwhkRWeYzH
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01AWP7L7M/