Thread: SSD

Originally Posted by CivilWars

AnandTech - Newegg Giving A 15% Discount on Any OCZ SSD

Something is off. It says it is a valid code but not on the OCZ drive that is linked from Anandtech.

=/ ... seems the coupon has already expired.

Originally Posted by Amador +JP2+

I went ahead and purchased the following:

Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

I should start/finish my build next week ... fingers crossed!

Good choice, Crucial makes some of the highest rated SSD's.



On a related note to SSD's I discovered that although mine has built in GC and I don't need to run an external GC program, the SSD needs to be left idle for a while each day to completely run it's GC. Mine started acting wonky after I turned off my third party GC programs (took a while); not detecting the drive on bootup, weird slowdowns, etc. But now that I let it idle for an hour before sleeping it is running fine.

It appears beneficial to give SSD's some idle time to run their maintenance each day; but TRIM should also help do that (for those with newer mobos).