I've seen enough failures with the Crucial m4 that I hesitate on that one now. It's certainly nowhere near the level of the old Indilinx Barefoot based drives, or the myriad of issues that have plagued Sandforce drives, but enough that Samsung gets my exclusive nod now. I used to be big on Intel as well, but all recent Intel drives are based on Sandforce. They have custom firmware that does seem to be superior to the masses, but I still personally hesitate based solely on the Sandforce lineage.
Of course, that has to be tempered against the one fundamental truth of tech parts: they will eventually all fail. The overall failure rate with SSDs seems to be around the same as HDDs, but with quite a bit more variability between manufacturers. Basically, avoid OCZ and you're already doing quite well compared to any HDD. The good news is that the difference between the fastest and slowest (modern) SSD is trivial compared to a tired old mechanical drive. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Boswell Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 4:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Ram musing? I totally agree with Greg on point 1, surprised by point 2... and 1. Crucial M4 is also worthy, keeping 160GB spindles in use at this point is just being obtuse. the difference in feel between a NEW harddisk and an SSD is massive, between an old spindle and an SSD it's like going from the 386 to a Pentium 2 3. 16GB is also very very cheap, which is why I'm running 16 here :) On 2 December 2012 21:55, Greg Sevart <[email protected]> wrote: > My thoughts: > > 1. Dump the ancient HDDs and either buy something current or, more > preferably, go buy Samsung 830, 840, or 840 Pro SSDs. Cannot overemphasize > this point--it would be a tragedy to pair those nice systems with such > horribly slow, outdated drives. > > 2. Honestly, I'm not fond of ESET's antimalware. When I tested it several > years back (in a work scenario) against several others, its actual system > impact (in terms of performance delta vs. no AV) was FAR greater than its > reputation would lead you to believe--it was in the worst half of the > bunch. > I'd recommend MSE, but that seems to have declined as of late for 0-day > threats. A MSE + MalwareBytes Pro combo may be the best bet right now. > > 3. 2x4GB=8GB is an appropriate amount. 32GB is overkill unless you're doing > something special (e.g., running multiple local VMs), and any less doesn't > really save you much. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DSinc > Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 12:28 PM > To: HWG > Subject: [H] Ram musing? > > (Yes, Boz, I did mis-type my last. I really meant 32GB!) Fine. > But, I've backed off a bit............... :) > > So, I am circling in on my new machines(3). > Plan to re-use my SeaSonic 610w psus. > Plan to re-use my nVidia 5900GT video cards (unless circumstances make this > difficult). > Plan to re-use my Seagate sata 160GB hds (3.0GB series.) > > These machines will run to failure for their lives. I plan their > lifetimeat 4 years (2016). > Well, unless I see my electric bill take an upward spike! > > That said, I think I've chosen the Asus P8Z77-V-Pro m/b. It seems to > give me > most of the 'new', but, still lets me do some 'old' also. Plus, it does > give me one > Intel on-board NIC. To me, this is important! > > Yes, I will most likely start Win7 on each in 64-bit mode; though I do > have some long > memories of ESET A/V having a long list of glitches w/64-bit operation. > Yes, I will deal > with FireFox Browser and ThunderBird Email in 64-bit also. I still can > not fathom what > Office 2003 will present me with yet. > > Thinking about machine base RAM. Thinking about 8GB to start (2x 4GB). > Seems like > a lot, but I do use 2GB in WinXP now. > > The Egg has a deal of 8GB for $70 w/m/b. It is there 'Xtreme' series > (one rev back per > the G.Skill website. Fine. > Have not visited the Corsair website yet. I've never used Corsair Ram. > Today, I see that Crucial offers RAM for the m/b. The price is ~half the > G.Skill Ram. > > Decisions, decisions? Opinions, suggestions, experiences welcome. > Duncan > > > >
