Dilemma

[sbohdan]

which SSD do you guys recommend to buy in case they are the same price: OCZ Vertex 4 128GB or Samsung 830 128GB?
Looking through tests it's not clear to me which of the two is faster or even more reliable? My rig is in my sig and I thought of an upgrade of my 60GB C300

[DragonFury]

That's a tough call. I am using a M4 128 SSD from Crucial and so far it has been pretty reliable. Of course keeping it up dated to the latest firm ware helps out loads.

[FZ1]

Samsung

[sbohdan]

Samsung

Why?

My hesitation is based on the AS-SSD and the real life performance benchmarks:





The AS-SSD benchmark shows a superior score of the Vertex 4 (I saw above 1000p for the 128GB) but the real world tests show the samsung to be faster. Reliability is said to be vastly improved on the vertex 4 (I saw no complaints of it as the previous gen. vertex drives), so I ask again - which drive is really faster (reliability seems to be similar)?

[kenc51]

+1 Samsung

There's a reason why OEM's use them.

Performance is not affected by compression either.
To me Sandforce and reliable don't belong in the same sentence.

[sbohdan]

+1 Samsung

There's a reason why OEM's use them.

Performance is not affected by compression either.
To me Sandforce and reliable don't belong in the same sentence.

I'm confused. The Vertex 4 uses Indilinx and I thought the Samsung 830 uses Sandforce as controller... so if Sandforce isn't reliable (so I gathered also reading posts), than why vote on the Samsung?
The Indilinx seems super stable and reliable (in fact OCZ gives 5 years warranty)

[kenc51]

Apologies, vertex4 is indilix
Samsung AFAIK uses their own controller, eitherway id still go with samsung