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meh. The gas supply is unreliable. And not particularly cheap.
For another $100 or so, the gamble can be removed by getting a Samsung or Intel.
cheapest i've seen is this one https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/213520. I will definitely get 1TB if below $300 :)
The OCZ TLC drive was also made by Toshiba without any contribution from their OCZ branch so this might have similar performance.
Not sure how much to trust these… No reviews?
Yeah, they seem a bit unknown to me. SSD tech is getting mature, but I still have doubts about newcomers. Don't need (or really want) one of these at the moment, so I'm letting it pass. By the next time I need an SSD, maybe we'll know more about these.
I heard they use voodoo magic…
Toshiba have been in the SSD game for years but mostly in the enterprise and OEM markets. They also own OCZ.
Yeah, with the exception that owning OCZ is not a claim to fame.
If I was willing to spare a fiddy, I could have owned them too :p But OCZ's liabilities from producing shonky sandforce based SSDs meant I didn't value them that highly.
@justtoreply: There was one model of OCZ that had shocking failure rates (Vertex 3 I think?) but my experience with Vertex 2 and Vertex 4 has been fine. Were there any other models that had a bad rep?
I'd heard that recently about Toshiba owning OCZ. Like @justtoreply I'm not convinced that makes their product good quality.
Samsung produced for OEMs too before launching their consumer drives. I've got an old PM800 I think it's called, which was good for it's time. Then they released the 830 SSD and it was just about the best drive you could get (got one of those too). Their follow-ups have kept them at the top of the market.
Point being, these Toshiba's could be awesome. They've had enough time for R&D and might emerge as the next big player, like Samsung did. That'd be nice. I'm happy to watch and wait to see how they prove themselves.
A notable difference however: Samsung first made a name for themselves with SLC SSDs which I understand to be the best quality / most reliable. MLC & TLC are the cheaper alternatives, offering bang for buck, which took off in popularity with drives like the 840 and 850 series. I'm not sure which version of the technology Toshiba have experience/expertise with. Might have been doing TLC for a while, or this might be their first experiment. Obviously owning OCZ gives them access to a lot of R&D there too.
Since I'm not in need of a new drive, I've not done research on the latest info.
Anyone up to speed with the latest on SSDs might chime in with more info to help prospective buyers.
Vertex 2 was bad.
But until a certain point in time, anything sandforce based was bad. OCZ seemed to have a higher than average failure rate with sandforce, not sure how that happened TBH. It was bad enough that I stopped paying attention after vertex 2 and 3. Maybe they fixed their issues after that, Amazon customer reviews would tell you.
R&D in 2015 = how do we make it cheaper?
How do we sell more?
Realize, marketing spin is a lot more effective, for sales, than actual technical improvements.
I've had terrible experiences with SSD's early on, so I unfortunately take the cautious route too :(
I wonder how long TLC lasts, I remember the saying of SLC being the most durable (can the written many times and has the longest lifespan), MLC comes second and TLD is the newest tech but can't be written many times (shortest lifespan). Maybe it's mature enough…?
Like SSD speeds… need to ask/remind yourself… "how much is enough?"
All SSD specs are off the charts.
Personally, it makes it easier: ignore them, look for other points of difference.
Seriously, it will be something like 110 years vs 150 years.
Do you think you will wear it out?
The SSD Endurance Test might give you some indication (it included a Samsung 840 series TLC SSD IIRC):
http://techreport.com/discussion/27909/the-ssd-endurance-exp…
Basically they ran a bunch of drives 24/7 for months to see what they could handle, and found that modern SSDs could take a ridiculous amount of writes before they started failing.
The main takeaway message is that modern drives, TLC or MLC, have much greater writer endurance than they're rated for. For most home users, this means they'll work for longer than their useful lifetime - outside of any specific problems with a particular batch or model.
so how much longer do you think you can bug these vendors before they give you a code of "paininthe"… :) ;) :P
I have been using enterprise toshiba drives for many years. I really wish you silly consumers would stop badmouthing a brand which has been around since before you were born. SSDs have become so mainstream that all the brands offer very little improvements at similar price points to this. SATA3 is a big fat bottle neck, so any SSD that has come out recently will serve your purpose.
SSD failure rate is less than 1%. We can't even keep up with the count, because of the amount of SSDs flying out the door. What you people need to realise is that manufacturing one of these really isn't that difficult anymore up to 1 TB and Toshiba are one of the biggest manufacturers in the game.
You want real performance??
Get a motherboard with an m.2 pci-E slot or one that supports RAM based storage.
Indeed - Toshiba has been in the storage game a long time.
Their 1.8" 5GB HDD is what made the iPod possible.
Most of the players are moving to 3d like in samsung 850. It allows for thicker tracks so better durability for data retention. Samsung were first now intel and micron are heading to 3d
960GB $415 now we are cooking with gas.