Good reliable SSD for storage

Currently, as you can see in my sig, I boot off a Corsair Performance Pro. Very fast and nice drive BTW. Highly recommend it. Marvel controller too so it's reliable.

I also have a Crucial C300 as my secondary where my user libraries go for storage in case my boot drive fails. I feel that the C300 is being wasted there being such a good drive for boot times and other shizzle. So that is going to a better place where it will be used to its full potential.

So my question to any of you out there is what is a good secondary SSD? You could say that I can put like a 1TB HDD there but I just plain don't like the humming and vibrations. I don't want replies telling me that I'm stupid and I should just stick to a regular secondary HDD instead of SSD. That isn't my question.

I just want to know what is a good storage SSD. I'd prefer if it was larger than 240GB and preferably SATA III. I will settle for SATA II though if the drive is reliable, big and cheap. I'd love a 1TB Octane but I really don't have that kind of money!

I've been eyeing the Intel 320 SSD as they have a 300GB model which is nice but I'm open to suggestions.

 

I'd honestly buy whatever you can find on eBay or anywhere else for a decent price. That's how I've been doing all my SSD shopping; if you want it for "storage" and to eliminate vibrations, speed isn't going to matter terribly much. It will be faster than a HDD, in any case.

I assume you are opposed to a Momentus XT?

 

Does the m17x have a dual hard drive bay..?

If your putting it in the optical drive check to see if it even runs at SATAIII speeds before purchasing a drive.

The Intel 320 series is awesome though and it appears to always be constantly going on sale, so it's a very viable option in my opinion. For a data drive I'm assuming you value reliability and Intel is wonderful for that.

To Syberia,

I don't think the OP wants a mechanical drive at all.

 

No the M17x R3 has dual Sata III (supposedly). It isn't going into the optical bay.

 

OP Pretty good read here on SSD's, Best SSD HDD | Hardware Revolution
Before reading it I would have recommend Intel. Now I am not so sure.

 

Nice table, though I wish the controller was added in a column. Most users here would agree with reliability scores of the table since Samsung and Crucial are definitely the most recommended SSDs on NBR. However, I would not trust their performance values if they are just basing off listed specs as actual performance is hard to quantify unless you can test all the drives in the same machine and under the same work load.

 

If you are using the drive for media and mass storage, speed won't factor in a whole lot. Whats going to be the important thing to pay attention to is long-term reliability vs Price/GB. get a reliable drive at a decent price point. even if it runs SATA II, the slowest drives are going to be faster then a spinner, anyhow.