Which SSD to choose? OCZ Aglility 3/4 vs Crucial M4

Question

Iron

Good afternoon,

* I clearly decided on the volume - 128GB

, at first the choice fell on OCZ Agility 3
But after reading about the problems of SandForce controllers, I'm already afraid to buy it. Although friends are worth it, they don’t complain.

Now I'm rushing between OCZ Agility 4 (it's already on a different controller) and Crucial M4.
What do you suggest?

Answer 1

I use vertex4, it's pointless to measure pennies in performance, the only question is price and reliability. ocz has a 5 year warranty, so I chose it.

Answer 2

I recommend you Intel, albeit more expensive, maybe a little slower (the declared indicators, many simply overestimate them).
But high reliability and good performance as it fills up. I will also mention refined firmware.
Even just statistics from acquaintances: 2 intels live and delight, but 1 out of 3 vertex3 has already given up, and is not even detected in the system.

Answer 3

Agility is a mainstream series designed for the “spherical consumer in a vacuum”. In terms of performance, it is inferior to the Vertex series. Crucial M4 - on the contrary, one of the "top" products of the company with improved performance. I would put the question Vertex 3 VS Crucial M4. Unfortunately, I can’t compare - I have Vertex 2 on the SATA2 interface, and the gain of the new version on the faster SATA3 should be noticeable. The specifications indicated on the manufacturers' websites are far from reality. More precisely, the maximum read / write speeds are indicated, which are rarely achievable in real conditions. I now have Revo Drive 3, Corsair Force GT and Vertex 2 - all on SandForce and all for 120 gigs. Motherboard compatibility was not the only problem - Revo did not start on the Gigabyte GA-790XT-USB3, and Force GT - on a laptop with SATA2 then,
In terms of durability: my first SSD - Vertex, bought two years ago, still works in an external box, but the write intensity on it is very low. Vertex 2 has been working for the second year in the laptop. Revo is also the second year in the desktop. Corsair bought relatively recently - in the summer. There were no problems with them.

Answer 4

Weighted average performance: (using www.fcenter.ru/online.shtml?articles/hardware/hdd/34370 as an example , fcenter builds a relative table in SSD reviews)

Crawl fcenter there, read the reviews of others you like.
Those. take a closer look at vertex 4, corsair neutron, plextor m3, depending on how much it costs in your area.

Answer 5

I have Agility 3 128GB. While pleases, the IDE starts in 4 seconds against 20 on the HDD.

Answer 6

About a year and a half ago I bought a Vertex 3 120Gb, as it fell into a BSOD in Windows 7x64, it still falls, despite the fact that it has already survived 2 firmware versions. Now 2.25 is available, I have 2.22 installed, it has already rebooted three times today. Either he does not want to be friends with the rest of the hardware, or he is problematic in itself)

Answer 7

According to fcenter tests, Corsair Performance Pro is one of the few that will stand a little and restore performance almost to its previous level. Many SSDs degrade very much during operation. At home I have 5 pieces of different SSDs - while they all work, Corsair 128 is just one of them I like the most.

Answer 8

I worked for a year and a half on OCZ Agility 3 - 120, a month ago I installed Vertex 4 - 256
Despite the fact that benchmarks began to show better results, I did not feel any increase in everyday work (VisualStudio, Sql Server). Loading time has not decreased.
The laptop has Agility 4 -128, despite the fact that there is SATA-II with the same set of programs, it works no worse than a desktop with Vertex-4 on Sata-III. Loading time is about the same.
I think there will be a noticeable difference only when working with large files (for example, in Photoshop when opening files with a bunch of layers). There, just on sequential reading, Agility 4 and Vertex 4 should show the best result

Answer 9

In general, questions about SSDs arise once a week and, in my opinion, the answers to them are the same ...
I have several vertices (including the very first one) and the simplest intel x25 - everything has been working for more than a year, despite the fact that vertex and intel stand as system disks under linux, no trim, no disabled logs, etc. — flight is normal.
Reading reviews on the 4th vertex, I really like how its performance grows with each new firmware, after all, I think they have an extremely promising controller (compared to SF)

Answer 10

I have OCZ AGT3-25SAT3-120G
Specifically, there are no complaints about SSD, with the current assembly of the system, the launch of any program usually does not exceed 3 seconds.
You won't notice a difference in performance anyway. In any case, no matter what SSD you buy - contact me - I'll tell you about the settings :)