Most people are still very skeptical with SF. It's just like when the P67 sata issues just came out. Z68 was sort of an attempt/reason to get out of that "P67" phobia even though P67 B3 resolved all the issues.

Another history lesson was Seagate's barracuda...they were so bad at one point that everybody went WD and Samsung. Reception was still negative even though they sort of fixed the issue. I have almost 20hdds at home and I only buy WD and Samsung.

For as long as SF's name is tainted, it's gonna take a lot more effort to rebuild the reputation. Regaining trust is not easy but OTOH people seem to forgive Toyota Camry's pedal issue rather quickly

I have both SF (32nm vertex 2 x 2) and Marvell drives. None gave me any issues. But I didn't bother taking my chances with my latest purchase. After extensive research it was between:

- Intel 510 (Marvell, sata 3)
- Crucial M4 (Marvell, sata 3)
- Intel 320 (Intel, sata 2)

I didn't want another sata 2...why bother when my mobo supports sata 3? So it was between Intel and Crucial. I then realized that 510 and M4's innards are almost the same, but Crucial seems to be a little more active in updating and following up with its firmware (although less so with the C300) than Intel. You have any clue how long Intel took to admit and amend fault on the 320?

Sadly Crucial is not easily available here Although some of us managed to get a few in hehe

what is your boot time?

thats fast already. what software u using to time your boot time?

try using bootracer

Maybe he is asking how to skip the password login?

do u mean when it is in bios(black screen) or after the windows logo loaded(blue screen)

Are you running antivirus on your system.

Using bootracer, my time to desktop is 22 sec (w/o antivirus). With antivirus it is 26 sec.

This is tested on my Dell laptop, running WinXP with Intel X25M 34nm 80GB SSD.

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i3 -2100
Z68 Asrock mobo
4gb 1600mhz ram
os 7 32 bit
Cosair force 3 60gb

now crucial M4 oso got bug =.=
thinking of selling mine and try samsung 830

Hi, I'm thinking of getting an intel 320 40gb as my first ssd since its one of the cheapest (viewnet still have them listed) & reliable but I'm not sure whether its a good buy or not since its small capacity & some say its slower than others. How slow is it? I'm planning of using it for boot drive only and I want something faster than normal HDD.