[geeks] SSD Choice between Intel and Crucial

[Mark Benson]

Noted.
On 20 Oct 2014 00:25, "Andrew Jones" <andrew at jones.ec> wrote:

> On 10/19/2014 04:15 PM, Mark Benson wrote:
>
>> My games PC has been running an Intel 320 Series SSD for about 3 years
>> issue free. The Mac Pro I used to use as a daily driver also had the same
>> one and worked great (that one is now in a Linux server).
>>
>> I have a work Thinkpad with a Crucial SSD in but it's had issues. The
>> first
>> time it was probably Lenovo's fault, the second time it was likely the
>> laptop's previous owner or Lenovo. The SSD seems to still work okay as far
>> as I can see.
>>
>> My experience tells me go with Intel, but YMMV.
>>
>>
> Intel 320 series was one of Intel's own chipsets, done in house.
>
> The 520 is a completely different animal.  Sandforce chipsets are
> terrible.  They rely on compression for performance, so anything
> incompressible is dismally slow. For example, an encrypted volume in a
> laptop.
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