Crucial 512gb M4 Slim Ssd 7mm Sataiii

Post by **madman045** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 3:27 am

Â£309.63 delivered

<a href="http://www.techdna.co.uk/crucial-512gb- ... 5-7mm.html" target="_blank">http://www.techdna.co.uk/crucial-512gb- ... mm.html</a>

Taken from HUKD

Post by **Vomit** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:34 am

when these things drop to about Â£100 each and their life span is a bit more reasonable i will change over to ssd, for now i will stick with the clock work stuff, except for the cache drive i use.

Post by **Claw** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 7:22 pm

Vomit wrote: when these things drop to about Â£100 each and their life span is a bit more reasonable i will change over to ssd, for now i will stick with the clock work stuff, except for the cache drive i use.

Thought this was an <a href="http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html" target="_blank">interesting article</a>. If they are going to drive this idea of speed over reliability they are burning a big hole in the pocket of the hardware industry as a whole... if the industry are daft enough to jump on this market now. In the past the hardware industry has moved forward quickly because each step was practical and measured.

I think SSD is going to be side-stepped, if not then they are taking us back in time, in terms of reliability, to the days of the floppy disk.

Post by **Dangerous Bob** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:26 pm

Aahhhh yes the good old 5 1/4 floppy......

I've got one her still, for old times sake. No idea what's on it....

Post by **Hammer** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:45 pm

Whats wrong with the life span of SSD's?

Post by **Trig** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:20 pm

Personally I've had 3 drives fail, all OCZ but on the flip side I dont use anyone elses drives.

If it wasn't for the fact I use WHS and it backs up my machines daily then maybe I'd look at other brands but I'd still be running SSD's..

Post by **Claw** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:17 am

For my circumstances, and everyone's circumstances will be different, reinstalling the OS every now and again would be a horrendous nightmare. I have a lot of ongoing projects involving a lot of different applications, I cannot have a system that I cannot trust - reliability is paramount for me.

Post by **Trig** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:23 am

Oh yeah agree entirely, we've just specced up a new server for work, drive speed is paramount but as its a server so is disk reliability so its got 12 SAS drives in it instead.

Problem I've found with SSD vs Spinner is that when a spinner starts to die you get some warning, be it clicking or something else, with SSD's it just dies...