Is OCZ Trion 150 240GB reliable?

[PCGuy_5960]

I would like to know about its reliability, as I am thinking of upgrading to it from my Samsung 840 Series SSD and a previous OCZ drive I owned 3 years ago had failed after 6 months of use...

[PCGuy_5960]

And will it offer any performance gains (If you know)?

[DXMember]

OCZ drives are very reliable

the Trion 150 specifically has phenomenal enterprise level data integrity protection during a power loss

it does however suffer from performance inconsistency with heavy workloads

either way the performance is still leaps ahead of mechanical drives

 

840 Evo specifically had (still has, but it's been masked with newer firmware) major design flaws which caused the drive to lose data

 

for massive storage I'd still suggest using mechanical hard drives,

if you still want very fast high capacity storage then I'd go with Samsung 850 Evo or OCZ Trion 100 / OCZ Trion 150 whichever is cheaper

and if you're all about the performance then get Samsung 950Pro or OCZ Vector 150

[PCGuy_5960]

1 minute ago, DXMember said:

OCZ drives are very reliable

the Trion 150 specifically has phenomenal enterprise level data integrity protection during a power loss

it does however suffer from performance inconsistency with heavy workloads

either way the performance is still leaps ahead of mechanical drives

 

840 Evo specifically had (still has, but it's been masked with newer firmware) major design flaws which caused the drive to lose data

 

for massive storage I'd still suggest using mechanical hard drives,

if you still want very fast high capacity storage then I'd go with Samsung 850 Evo or OCZ Trion 100 / OCZ Trion 150 whichever is cheaper

and if you're all about the performance then get Samsung 950Pro or OCZ Vector 150

What would you recommend for under $80?

[DXMember]

1 minute ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

What would you recommend for under $80?

 if Evo or Trion doesn't fit in that budget then look up something from Plextor, Corsair or Kingston (kingston has performance issues but in terms of reliability you shouldn't worry with any of the solutions currently available on the market)

[PCGuy_5960]

Just now, DXMember said:

 if Evo or Trion doesn't fit in that budget then look up something from Plextor, Corsair or Kingston (kingston has performance issues but in terms of reliability you shouldn't worry with any of the solutions currently available on the market)

What about the HyperX SSDs?

[DXMember]

7 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

What about the HyperX SSDs?

HyperX is Kingston

look up some benchmarks, also I believe there was Tom's Hardware that ran SSD reliability test for over a year and graphed all the tested drives in terms of their performance and when they outright fail after writing terabytes of data daily

pcper also has some good data on storage performance

[PCGuy_5960]

Just now, DXMember said:

HyperX is Kingston

look up some benchmarks, also I believe there was Tom's Hardware that ran SSD reliability test for over a year and graphed all the tested drives in terms of their performance and when they outright fail after writing terabytes of data daily

pcper also has some good data on storage performance

Thx