Samsung is definitely nice.Â
I had an OCZ drive that failed/RMAed/failed again 3 times. Or if anything, never trust the OCZ Vertex line. They have a history with controllers going into "panic mode", which cannot be unlocked by users. (Data = GONE)
I've currently got a Samsung Pro 840, which has been a really nice drive. It's been reliable and came with decent software to migrate over the boot drive, which worked pretty well for situations where I'm not going to just reinstall.
Also had good luck with Kingston and Adata drives in the past.Â
I'd also mirror what Crofte said though. Chances are, you'll get bottlenecked by something else even with a single SSD, but if you're going for big storage, multiple small ones in a raid will outperform a single, expensive, big SSD. I'd would probbaly recommend going the cheaper option unless you're doing something really I/O intensive that will benefit from the slightly better performance.
I had an OCZ drive that failed/RMAed/failed again 3 times. Or if anything, never trust the OCZ Vertex line. They have a history with controllers going into "panic mode", which cannot be unlocked by users. (Data = GONE)
I've currently got a Samsung Pro 840, which has been a really nice drive. It's been reliable and came with decent software to migrate over the boot drive, which worked pretty well for situations where I'm not going to just reinstall.
Also had good luck with Kingston and Adata drives in the past.Â
I'd also mirror what Crofte said though. Chances are, you'll get bottlenecked by something else even with a single SSD, but if you're going for big storage, multiple small ones in a raid will outperform a single, expensive, big SSD. I'd would probbaly recommend going the cheaper option unless you're doing something really I/O intensive that will benefit from the slightly better performance.
