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Boris Galerkin posted:Which is the "Mushkin Enhanced Chronos" that the OP recommends? Amazon shows this one and this deluxe one but neither of them are simply called Enhanced Chronos. Same thing according to the part # of the first The 'Deluxe' models are faster because they use toggle NAND I've been running the non-deluxe 240GB drive for the last couple weeks and it hasn't blown up yet.
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I have the non-deluxe Chronos 120GB and it's fantastic. Cheap as hell too.
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| # ? May 31, 2012 16:24 |
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I can get both the Mushkin Chronos 120 GB and Crucial M4 128 GB for around the same price, the Crucial M4 being about ~$10 more expensive. If I get a SSD which should I get? The OP keeps recommending the Mushkin but there's a small blurb about the Crucial being faster somewhere in there.
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| # ? May 31, 2012 16:27 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:I can get both the Mushkin Chronos 120 GB and Crucial M4 128 GB for around the same price, the Crucial M4 being about ~$10 more expensive. If I get a SSD which should I get? The OP keeps recommending the Mushkin but there's a small blurb about the Crucial being faster somewhere in there. For that small a price difference, I'd get the M4 because it's known to be a very reliable drive, and it has the extra capacity. Any speed difference is largely irrelevant because of how much faster they are compared to an HDD.
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| # ? May 31, 2012 16:31 |
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I'm replacing my 128GB Crucial M4 with this 240GB Corsair Force Series 3 for $195... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16820233268 This is generally agreed to be a good deal, right?
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I really apologise if this has been discussed in the thread before - I dug through the op and the last few pages, but the thread is rather large. Can anyone here offer any experience with the Sandisk Extreme line of SSDs? I read good reviews on their performance, but haven't been able to find anything on their reliability. Since the 240GB model is available for AU$248 on MSY (the only other 240GB on there being $349), I was looking at that. I'm a bit paranoid about reliability - a tech expert friend warned me off SSDs after he had 3 different ones each die seperately in very short order (only one of them was an OCZ). This of course conflicts with what the op lays out, and I'm having trouble knowing what to think. Any help would be really appreciated.
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zenintrude posted:I'm replacing my 128GB Crucial M4 with this 240GB Corsair Force Series 3 for $195... BreakAtmo posted:I really apologise if this has been discussed in the thread before - I dug through the op and the last few pages, but the thread is rather large. Can anyone here offer any experience with the Sandisk Extreme line of SSDs? I read good reviews on their performance, but haven't been able to find anything on their reliability. Since the 240GB model is available for AU$248 on MSY (the only other 240GB on there being $349), I was looking at that. I'm a bit paranoid about reliability - a tech expert friend warned me off SSDs after he had 3 different ones each die seperately in very short order (only one of them was an OCZ). This of course conflicts with what the op lays out, and I'm having trouble knowing what to think. Any help would be really appreciated. If you're particularly concerned with reliability, then I'd choose one from Intel, Samsung, or Crucial, in that order.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:People still put optical drives in their systems? MP3-cds for the car don't just appear, you know. Playing Blu-rays, too.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:People still put optical drives in their systems? Gotta rip those discs somehow.
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zenintrude posted:Gotta rip those discs somehow. Yup. When I built my latest machine, I went out of my way to find an HD-DVD/Blu-Ray drive so I didn't have to leave my 360 HD-DVD drive hooked up to rip discs. I found one used, an LG. Impossible to find them new, I think. Worth every penny to have a drive that can do everything I could need.
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Kerbtree posted:MP3-cds for the car don't just appear, you know. Playing Blu-rays, too. zenintrude posted:Gotta rip those discs somehow.
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They look like poo stacked on top of an HTPC.
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| # ? May 31, 2012 20:26 |
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Factory Factory posted:They look like poo stacked on top of an HTPC.
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| # ? May 31, 2012 20:40 |
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The Crucial M4 256GB is back on sale for $199.99 at Newegg.
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| # ? May 31, 2012 21:33 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:I can get both the Mushkin Chronos 120 GB and Crucial M4 128 GB for around the same price, the Crucial M4 being about ~$10 more expensive. If I get a SSD which should I get? The OP keeps recommending the Mushkin but there's a small blurb about the Crucial being faster somewhere in there. The Mushkin price is crashing. It was $99 last week when I ordered it from Amazon and $90 now.
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Funny thing, I just RMAed a Corsair Force Series 3 240GB that was DOA. This is my first ever RMA of any sort, so I just followed the directions, got an RMA number, mailed back the drive (at my expenses, WTF?), and just received from them a 16GB voyager flash drive.
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I hope that's in addition to a new SSD?
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DrDork posted:I hope that's in addition to a new SSD? Nope  someone done hosed up.
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LorneReams posted:Funny thing, I just RMAed a Corsair Force Series 3 240GB that was DOA. This is my first ever RMA of any sort, so I just followed the directions, got an RMA number, mailed back the drive (at my expenses, WTF?), and just received from them a 16GB voyager flash drive. That's why you buy from somewhere like Amazon so that you don't have to pay shipping back, and get a replacement shipped out immediately for free.
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| # ? Jun 1, 2012 03:58 |
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rawrr posted:That's why you buy from somewhere like Amazon so that you don't have to pay shipping back, and get a replacement shipped out immediately for free. Except if it's like any other Corsair product, it says "WAIT, DON'T RETURN THIS TO THE STORE" in the box. vv I'm not really saying it's wrong to return it to Amazon, only that I can see why most people would not think to, when they see that huge message in the box HalloKitty fucked around with this message at Jun 1, 2012 around 08:36 |
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HalloKitty posted:Except if it's like any other Corsair product, it says "WAIT, DON'T RETURN THIS TO THE STORE" in the box. Amazon gives zero fucks. LorneRealms, you might want to register on one of the bigger nerdforums, like Anandtech or [H], and post your story. They're crawling with manufacturer reps, and manufacturer reps don't like bad publicity spread around the people who buy their high-margin products.
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LorneReams posted:Nope
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Ok, so, I have one of the Crucial M4s in my system, just moved it to a native SATA 2? port as opposed to a Marvell port, and ran CDM on it. Got this. Now, are these results normal, or should I be getting better? For whatever it's worth, here's some screenshots of my system info from CPU-Z.  
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Kurui Reiten posted:Ok, so, I have one of the Crucial M4s in my system, just moved it to a native SATA 2? port as opposed to a Marvell port, and ran CDM on it. Got this.
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Now that I have an SSD in my laptop, I can't even look my desktop in the eye anymore. You guys are homewreckers. Argyle fucked around with this message at Jun 1, 2012 around 18:14 |
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I had to upgrade my desktop within a week of seeing what it did to my laptop. In the good news, we've just seen significant price drops across the board. It's very easy to get a decent 120/128GB SSD for $99 now.
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rawrr posted:That's why you buy from somewhere like Amazon so that you don't have to pay shipping back, and get a replacement shipped out immediately for free. Newegg will give you a free UPS label to ship back RMAs if you write to their support line and complain, but yeah, Amazon's service is so much better than Newegg's. I've spent a crapload of cash at Newegg over the past decade or so, but nowadays the only reason I buy anything from them is that they have better selections of some items (like motherboards), and will occasionally run decent sales that Amazon hasn't matched. Kairos fucked around with this message at Jun 1, 2012 around 20:22 |
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Civil posted:I had to upgrade my desktop within a week of seeing what it did to my laptop. I may grab one for Father's Day at this point. I may even make my life easier and get him a 256 so I don't get any panicked phone calls. 
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Tunga posted:On the plus side those are fantastic little drives and if I know Corsair they'll probably let you keep it. Yeah but they're cheap as chips these days. And not overly fast as they used to be (compared to other drives out there). I bought one recently.
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Argyle posted:Now that I have an SSD in my laptop, I can't even look my desktop in the eye anymore. No kidding. Newegg offered me a 256GB Samsung 830 @ 85¢ per GB so I pounced on that post hast. Just finished migrating my OS X User account to the new SSD and HOLY BALL THIS IS FAST!   My WD Scorpio Black was topping out ~80MB/s rw while this thing is literally saturating the SATA II bus. I know they slow down from their virgin state but still, drat.
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512GB Crucial M4 for $396 http://slickdeals.net/f/4683362-512...6-Free-shipping  Nice to see the big drives getting cheaper.
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Wow, with sizes like that at those prices, it really diminishes the need to carry around a USB HDD (or a HDD in the optical drive bay) along with a laptop that has a SSD in it.
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Bob Morales posted:512GB Crucial M4 for $396 Oh poo poo. So, uh, any recommendations for a 2.5->3.5 internal bay adapter?
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fookolt posted:Oh poo poo.
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Bob Morales posted:512GB Crucial M4 for $396 They cost 53% MORE in the UK taking currency into account.
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So has anyone used one of these Seagate Pulsar drives yet? I have an enterprise application with a lot of random disk access that would benefit from SSDs and I was wondering if they really are as reliable as they say they are. I've had pretty poor results from Seagate hard drives in the past.
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fookolt posted:So, uh, any recommendations for a 2.5->3.5 internal bay adapter? Mine is held in place by the stiffness of the cables. 
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| # ? Jun 2, 2012 21:46 |
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So is Crucial making an absolutely insane profit on their drives to offer theirs for so cheaply or is there a newer model about to release?
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| # ? Jun 2, 2012 22:19 |
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I'm going to buy a ~240GB SSD to replace my 120GB one. Uninstalling games before installing new ones is becoming a pain. Which one should I buy? This Corsair for $250?
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Dominoes posted:I'm going to buy a ~240GB SSD to replace my 120GB one. Uninstalling games before installing new ones is becoming a pain. Which one should I buy? This Corsair for $250? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16820148443 The 256GB M4 might be a tad slower, but it would be imperceptible. It's $199.
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