1TB for $99.....any day now!!!!
I really think Patriot is the most random ssd seller I've ever seen. Some of their drives are complete crap(and always have been, dating back to 2011 or longer). Some of them are pretty solid mid-range that are both a good value, and highly reliable. They're not Plextor or Intel(consistently HQ), but not OCZ and Corsair(consistently buggy and unreliable).
I guess Patriot is how you play the lottery with ssds.
Edit: And I know that this thread is specifically about 120GB-class drives, but they do offer the 240GB version for $37.99, seems like a better price/GB, and probably offers better performance as well.
I've largely stopped buying 120GB drives. They're small enough, that most people want a HDD besides, to store a little data on. Stepping up to the 240GB size, well, that's nearly big enough to fit downloads, and a game or two on, so there's far less need for most people (enthusiasts with a big Steam catalog excluded here) to also need a HDD installed.
During the whole 2011-2012 Sandforce fiasco, Corsair had the second worst problems after OCZ. Mushkin was using the exact same base Sandforce controller, but they requested a slightly modified SF, and put some custom controls in place and had by far the lowest failure rate of any of the companies selling Sandforce ssds. Corsair's solution was... nothing. Just use stock Sandforce and RMA all of the failures. Even a year into that mess Corsair was just like "What problems? This is completely fine!".I thought Corsair always used the (good quality) Phison reference design for their SSDs?
No, they were affected by the trim bug, which made them awfully slow at first and then die outright eventually.
What controller and NAND is that using ? I'd assume something from smi
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820242399
They've done it! Newegg has broken below the $19.99 barrier for a 120GB 2.5" SATA SSD! Kingston A400, for $18.99!
That is the cheapest SSD with the Phison S11 (a very good DRAM-less SATA controller).
TBW is 40TB......not bad!
For way of comparison, my CDI for my Adata SP550 240GB, total host read/writes, 7755/9175GB, total NAND writes 7310GB (less NAND writes than host writes, interesting), and 2048 POH. (Which doesn't make much sense, the companion HDD in the system has 4x that.) Says approx. 85 days POH.
So, my TBW is around 7.3TB, after 85 days. So 21TBW / year? So that A400 120GB would last me only two years? Hmm. But I need more than 120GB of space anyways, so maybe double that TBW for the 240GB? So four years of usage?
Now that the effectively-$20 barrier has been broken, how low will they plunge? Will we see $15.99 for some? $14.99? For a 120GB? At what point, will they simply phase them out, like 8GB flash drives these days?
(Next up, 240/256GB SATA SSDs, for less than $29.99? Do I hear $28.99, then $26.99, then $25.99, then $24.99?)
I think that point is close, but with one caveat. There are older (BIOS) desktop PCs, that are limited to less than 128GB worth of HDD, either via BIOS or OS limitations. For them, the 120/128GB sizes are more-or-less perfect. (Using a SATA-to-IDE converter, perhaps.) For that reason, they might linger longer.
But there's no excuse for building budget rigs, and not throwing in a 120GB SSD for an OS drive, at least for browser boxes.
I look forward to "the plunge".
The Mushkin Source lasts a very long time before its SLC cache is filled. While the Toshiba TR200's write speed ends up in the gutter very quickly, it will be almost impossible for a real-world consumer workload to fill the cache of the Source unless the drive starts out nearly full. From an empty drive, the apparent initial SLC cache size is well over 150GB—essentially the entire drive operating as SLC until free space runs out.
1.) Silicon Power S55 240GB is now $28.99 FS:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820301366
It has Phison S10 and 15nm Toshiba TLC:
http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/article/1000872/Silicon-Power-S55-TLC-120GB-and-240GB-SSD-Review/3
(This is the lowest I have seen 240GB so far. Originally posted by Virtual Larry here)
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?reviews=all&item=0D9-001B-00164 Wow look how cheap this 960gb is $123.75! We should have a 900-1tb price watch thread given how cheap this one is.Is this even the cheapest?