Does anyone know anything about this SSD?

Edge Tech Boost Pro 480GB SSD SATA III PE230043 6GB/S

Long story short, the 240gb SSD in my laptop is getting a little full. I'd rather not go the SSD/HDD route and sacrifice battery life. I found this on eBay and for a price/gb of $0.65, I'm considering jumping on it. However, it appears to be a generic SF-2281 drive, and that's really the one and only thing holding me back. I can't find a whole lot of reviews on it besides this one, which of course says nothing about reliability.

Most of the information I found about Sandforce dates back to 2011. Are they still unreliable, causing data corruption and BSODs at will, or has the firmware that keeps being tossed around largely fixed these issues?

 

Right now I'm running an Intel 330 as my main SSD, which is based on the SF-2281. So far so good, though like you I've never heard of the brand you've linked to.

 

I also have never heard of it. I know the Intel uses the SF controller too, but I believe Intel uses a different FW (I have several Intel SSD's and they usually tone down the speed a bit in return for stability) and it seems to be one of the most stable SF drives.

And as I always believe, if it seems too good to be true, it is. I would be very cautious buying any unknown piece of hardware, be it an SSD, wireless card or router. I always need to research and find reviews, owners feedback and neutral party info before I buy. Better to be late to the party than find out I was swindled. There are a lot of imitators out there trying to scam us out of our money. Just be careful. If you do end up buying it, please come back on here and let us know how it performs. But be careful.

 

Ditto. I've never heard of the brand for anything until now (I've been using PCs since 1983, starting w/DOS 2.0) and personally, I'd be wary of anything from Sandforce and anything not made by companies w/expertise making their own flash or SSD controllers (e.g. Mushkin, Corsair, OCZ, etc.) along w/those who very likely don't have type of resources needed to do a proper job of validation that the big guys do.

I think it's a waste of time and money to go w/questionable drives, esp. if the consequences mean total data loss, BSODs, needing to RMA the drive, etc.

I'd stick w/Samsung 830 (have 2 of them) or Crucial M4 right now. Despite Intel's rep, their Sandforce based drives are a bit too new for me.

Can you get rid of some stuff and/or move it offline/to another machine or drive? How about cleaning up stuff in your %temp% dir? Also, using http://windirstat.info/ can help along w/turning on NTFS compression on some directories, esp. on things you don't use much.

 

You guys are right - there are too many unknowns here. From my Googling, it doesn't seem like the SF issues are completely fixed. M4s are going cheap on eBay right now, so I'll try to snag one.

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At their price, the M4s are hard to beat even though they aren't the fastest performers around. The Samsung 830 is going for pretty cheap on sale these days too.

 

I'm not concerned about the speed. The difference between a HDD and a SSD is so huge that the differences between individual SSDs themselves are elementary at best. For me, price (and, to a point, reliability) trump all.

 

Well in that case the 830 is the most reliable one.. the M4 is most definitely not

 

Both drives are very reliable as you can see here:
SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm

Micron Technology specifies very high write endurance for its drives

 

512gb m4 for $350 shipped. Bought it and I'm happy.

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Nice price, that's actually 0.69$ per GB, wow.

@Jaug, while the M4 had a few problems, Crucial was fast to fix them which imo is as important as having a reliable drive. Any drive termed reliable could eventually seen an unforeseen issue and the M4 never got anything major like SF-2281 drives or the infamous 8mb bug on the 320. The 5000h bug required frequent reboots, but everything was still there and usable.

Samsung is more reliable, but i haven't run into something that wasn't fixed on the M4 aside from the small number of lemons any manufacturer is boung to have. Crucial has a 3/3 reliability track record for me, the only SF drive i have decided to get picky about incompressible data and it's now going through RMA. My own personal experience so in the overall stats, it doesn't count for much, but still Crucial gets some points from me. One member here got a lot of BSODs on his M4 though, haven't heard from that problem in a while though.