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Come to think of it, woudn't it be a great idea if we would make a thread of recommendations only?
Like, the best deals, etc.
My brother has a website of it, but i don't think that i can leave a link.
Come to think of it, woudn't it be a great idea if we would make a thread of recommendations only?
Like, the best deals, etc.
My brother has a website of it, but i don't think that i can leave a link.
All SSDs will eventually slow down a tiny bit over time, but the Patriot Torqx has the TRIM features as well to help keep it from getting slow as quick. The drive has a 10 year warranty, and it has a MTBF 2,500,000 hours rating on it.
Patriot Memory - Products
Last edited by Brink; 13 Sep 2009 at 01:27. Reason: update to clarify better
Well as I mentioned before, Intel and OCZ have (in their latest offerings) specific firmware to undo the "damage" causeb by multitudes of small writes to the array. So no, The intel and OCZ do not appretiativly slow down over time.
Ok they will a /little/ but the slowdown that is commonly referred to is a crippling slow down that most other SSDs out there do suffer from where the drive runs at like 1/10th it's original performance after heavy use. The later Intel X25Ms and the 2nd Gen do not have this problem. That's what sets the Intel and latest OCZ offerings apart from all the others and why after years of dealing with the horrible consequences of using SSDs at work for embedded systems, I was FINALLY able to see clear to buying an X-25M for my machine at home.
Here is an article detailing what Intel went though on the first gen drives and I read a very similar article about OCZ.
PC Perspective - Intel Responds to Fragmentation with New X25-M Firmware
I don't know anything about the torqx though.
- don't ever buy any 1st generation SSD's from OCZ
- they have a serious problem with the firm-ware drivers..
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631
Last edited by BugMeister; 14 Sep 2009 at 06:04.