Please don't worry about its write lifespan. You need to write 128GB of data everyday in order to wear out its write lifespan in 8 years time. Isn't that already long enough?

haha..if worry so much then get HDD better..no nid to worry about the write lifespan XD

Bought from same shop too

Didn't post my benchmark cause I'm using it on my old SATA II mobo

not necessarily... sometimes mechanical drive do have tendency to go kaput faster due to it being mechanical, you know, spinning drive, moving heads etc...

will receive my vertex 4 @ rm550 tomorrow. will also try my best to upload a picture here =)

but from what i have seen, HDD have longer lifespan(dont talk about those vibration shock etc), SSD on the other way i seen too many kaput within one year..

wow, vertex 4, how wish i got budget for that

Which models were these SSDs?

o really bro ? where do u saw this ssd?

well, my friend have one corsair force 3 gone case last 2 week(forgot was it 6 month or 8 month usage), now rma-ing, then i check online, there is some ppl saying the same problem too despite different brand.

http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthrea...bling-questions
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/t...e.html#comments

Hi guys , Im going to buy something from China this 15 June . So im doing this bulk to help u guys get this HDD caddy bay with cheaper price . Dateline is 13 June .

Please do visit my thread :

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2363123

I also wanted to know. Choosing my first SSD headche. BTW everling those sandforce controller still have problem???? Haven't solve yet??? for the BSOD..

Those articles are quite obsoleted now. You won't find those items in the retail market now as they're EOLed a while ago. And you have to be careful about what you hear from other people. They may simply be repeating year old news that may be quite untrue now.

I am currently using a budget-class Kingston SSD bought in late 2009 that will see its third birthday by the end of this year and it is still going strong. I have heavily used it, including BT downloads. Barring external interference, I am fairly sure that it will live for another few more years.

Intel has apparently solved their SandForce-controller problems via their own custom firmware. While the other manufacturers using SandForce should have received most of the patches by now via SandForce, I do not know for sure. In any case, there has been little noise about SandForce SSDs failing or BSODing for many months now.

This post has been edited by everling: May 27 2012, 09:07 PM

Everling u using BT on SSD? I mean the program u install on system C: drive? or other partition??? Your machine 24X7?

My Vertex4.Firmware 1.4
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All my applications are installed on the SSD, but most games are in a HDD. When I download via BT, I save them to my SSD first and then move the completed downloads to their final locations in the HDDs.

The reason I do this is because my games rarely improve when installed to my SSD. And also so that my HDDs aren't abused by doing a lot of random writes. HDDs are fragile, SSDs are not. At least in my experience.

Thanks for the info, but is that ur machine 24X7????

More like 16x7 now, sorry to disappoint.

vertex 4 what are the local prices here guys?

rm540above

Hi Guys,

With a Rm1000 budget, which SSD should I get? Want a SSD with good performance and one that is reliable. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.