Best price versus perfomance SSD's available

So I was wondering,

I'm planning to upgrade to SSD drives once I get a newer laptop (possibly M17x.. possibly not.. thats besides the point).
My question is, Which SSD's are the fastest, and which are the best bang for your buck.

By the second question I mean, which SSD's are the fastest for the amount your paying. Specifically 128gb models. As above that price starts going pretty high regardless.

This is not a budget question, but rather a question of prices for the speeds you get.

 

The Samsung controlled SSDs are probably the best price/performance, followed VERY closely by the indilinx controlled.

Getting used ones off ebay and Secure Erasing then Firmware Updating them (for TRIM) is probably the best bet.

both read at 230-220MB/s and are comparable in most benchmarks.

 

Samsung used to be the best by far for price/performance but it's been a while since Dell had their 256GB drive for <$500.

 

I dunno, there are a few deals for the 160gb Intel X-25M G2 for around $350 with rebates. Roughly $2/GB, still not an exceptional price point but a hell of a deal considering the performance you get from it. I hit 260m/s MB on read and about 90 for write.

Also what are you using it for? If your just general uses like me, the Intel is the way to go, their 4k reads are miles ahead of most of the other competition, which is what really matters for the OS.

For a lot of file transferring, maybe one of the others options with higher sustained write speeds would be better.

 

i would say intel gives u best price and performance.. their G2 drives are exceptional...

 

General using. Games. I like speed though. So its a question of when I'm getting it, rather then if.
I might just wait Till the price goes below $2/GB.
Although I have a feeling 3 months will do that as well! (For some)

 

We're about 18 months into the consumer-grade ssd market. It might be a good idea at this point to sit back and see if there is a rash of device failures over the next few months.

Data recovery from conventional rotating disk HDDs is well documented. Sometimes it's as easy as hooking the device up to a Linux machine, sometimes you freeze the drive, sometimes you need to buy a used controller board from ebay, sometimes you need to send the drive to a professional recover firm.

Data recovery from SDDs is undocumented and could range from impossible to easy with an unknown $$$ factor added on. None of the home-based DIY methods of recovering data from HDD devices is likely to work on SDD devices leaving ONLY the option of pouring $$$ into the problem.

Be careful out there.

 

What does it matter. No one is complaining that they are dropping dead suddenly. If it was you'd see it in the the reviews and comments on Newegg, Amazon etc right away.

In any case, everyone knows - or should know by now - to back up data regularly. Even professional recovery on a regular hard drive is gonna cost you a minimum of 1200 dollars.

 

what does it matter? SDD is a new tech with no standards shared between makers. None of the established data recovery techniques that work for HDD apply to SDD. As far as time, we're about 25% into the anticipated MTFB on SSD devices, just the point where the failure bell curve will start to climb sharply.

So until this generation and possibly the next generation of SSDs go, people should be very careful about closed-eye adoption until we get into the backside of the MTBF bell curve so that real-world failure rates are in fact established and data recovery techniques are in place and debugged.

 

Thank goodness my data is uploaded to an an external HDD and my Skydrive account.

And Newsposter, you're such a wet blanket. Have a cookie.

 

If you SSD fanbois want to put all of your eggs into an as of yet unproven basket, go right ahead. Ignoring the immaturity of the tech doesn't make the potential problems go away.

 

It's not that hard to back up your data...

 

The thing is that the measures which you should in any case take to protect your data on a regular HDD, will also protect you with an an SSD. So what's the downside? There is none.

 

Sometime mate, risks need to be taken. If they pay off, good for you. If they don't.. well more the fool.
But you'll never know otherwise! Just saying...

 

this seems quite off-topic.

OP,

the fastest consumer SSDs overall are probably the models which use the SandForce controllers. they are expensive, though. for general use, i second that the best price-performance is prolly offered by the Indilinx and Samsung based drives. If your performance metric is IOPS, however, I'd say the X25-M has the best price-performance.