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    Real Life Performance

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by scar, Apr 12, 2011.

  1. Willscary

    Willscary Notebook Evangelist

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    Perhaps you guys have seen this:

    Hard drive and SSD failure rates

    Actually, if I could find the original, it had failure rates of most computer hardware components. The article was very interesting!

    Just to give my two cents worth...I manage about 30 machines. Originally, I bought Crucial M225 SSDs for their 5 year warranty. They have since been discontinued, but I once read that their failure rate was right around 1%. The C300s were much worse originally due to a bad firmware.

    I recently purchased 3 more laptops and this time installed the 120GB Intel X25-M in each. I purchased these because of their extremely low failure rates.

    While I understand that there are faster SSDs out there, I much more care for the reliability.

    Just my opinion.
     
    Willscary, Apr 18, 2011
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  2. sugarkang

    sugarkang Notebook Evangelist

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    Yeah, anand vouched for those numbers and ultimately swayed me to buy a used intel drive. By comparison, a vertex is five times more likely to fail.
     
    sugarkang, Apr 18, 2011
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  3. Phil

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    Here's a Newegg customer review of someone who claims to have owned a Vertex 3 for 3 months. Strange because this drive has been out for less than a month.

    Are the Newegg reviews not reliable?
     
    Phil, Apr 22, 2011
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  4. Cloudfire

    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    Some of them are not. It is like metacritic where people say that a game is awesome although they have never even touched it. Don`t know if newegg have people going over the ratings after a while and deletes the one that doesn`t belong there. I have also seen Vertex 3 ratings where people say "its the best" although they dont own one. Happens to all products where fanboys cannot help themselves :(
     
    Cloudfire, Apr 22, 2011
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  5. chimpanzee

    chimpanzee Notebook Virtuoso

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    It seems to be about vertex 2(at least that is what I saw about the main product) with mac so it sounds very legit.
     
    chimpanzee, Apr 22, 2011
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  6. Phil

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    Oops my mistake. The Vertex 2 came up when I searched for Vertex 3.
     
    Phil, Apr 22, 2011
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  7. mrngorickets

    mrngorickets Newbie

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    Hi

    Tks very much for post:

    I like it and hope that you continue posting.

    If you want to get more materials that related to this topic, you can visit: Performance review phrases

    Best regards.
     
    mrngorickets, Apr 25, 2011
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  8. Phil

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    Phil, Apr 25, 2011
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