May 7, 201214 yr Should be big enough even for scenery hoarders! Review: Sandforce fixed by Intel? Newegg Sale price $159.99 15% off w/ promo code HARDOCPX5X2A, ends 5/8 We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
May 7, 201214 yr Nice... but 120GB isn't large enough... I'm not a scenery hoarder yet I'm running out of room on my 120 Mushkin... | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
May 7, 201214 yr Should be big enough even for scenery hoarders! Review: Sandforce fixed by Intel? Newegg Sale price $159.99 15% off w/ promo code HARDOCPX5X2A, ends 5/8 Says the code is now inactive. Nice... but 120GB isn't large enough... I'm not a scenery hoarder yet I'm running out of room on my 120 Mushkin... For a system drive that's a perfect size. I'm not sure what in the world you have installed, but my 60GB installation is as big as it's going to get! ___________________________________________________________________________________ Zachary Waddell -- Caravan Driver -- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/zwaddell Avsim ToS Avsim Screenshot Rules
May 7, 201214 yr Remember that you don´t actually get 120 Gb! Bought some OCZ Vertex 2, cheap, but effectively I only get around 111 Gb..
May 7, 201214 yr Author Says the code is now inactive. Its still $159.99 It looks like they stealth cancelled the extra 15 percent from the code, though. If you speak to a service rep, though, they will usually honor it anyway. Still a good deal, either way. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
May 7, 201214 yr 120GB goes fast if you have UTX, GEX, REX, multiple ORBX sceneries, aftermarket airports, and a lot of aircraft installed. I went from 64GB to 128GB, and now I am looking at getting a 250+ GB SSD. Shane Gavin
May 8, 201214 yr Author Having the 128GB Crucial M4 for $129 it doesn't look that good of a deal Not all SSD's are equal! In almost every independent review, the Intel drives beat others for reliability. Sandforce drives have been known for speed before now, but reliability? Not so much. Reviews say that Intel has finally put together the best of both new worlds with these new drives. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
May 8, 201214 yr Not all SSD's are equal! In almost every independent review, the Intel drives beat others for reliability. Sandforce drives have been known for speed before now, but reliability? Not so much. Reviews say that Intel has finally put together the best of both new worlds with these new drives. Sandforce fixed the bugs in the SF2281 at last, so all those SSD's (Vertex 3, Corsair GT...) are ok now I guess, but the Crucial M4 has been rock solid stable for a lot longer. Both are great SSD's, it's just that the M4 seems to get cheaper and cheaper. They go for 99€ here right now, and 215€ the 256GB version. So tempting
May 8, 201214 yr Some 520 owner's have still reported BSODs with their new drives, so Intel hasn't managed to iron out all the Sandforce kinks. Still a safer bet for the time being though. I'm going to get a 240GB drive soon since I want to replace my two-year-old 64GB system drive with something that I can load games onto as well. I was planning on getting a 520 since it had the right mix of speed and cost plus Intel-reliability, but SanDisk's Extreme has plummeted in price recently to more than $100 less than the Intel. It's blazing fast, and at $1/GB it's too good to pass up IMO. Cheers, Mike
May 8, 201214 yr Author You guys should read some of the comments in the review I posted. I tend to go with law of averages on these things. SSD's can all be iffy, but some are certainly "iffy-er" than others. When all is said and done, the Intels (of every series) seem to come out on top again and again for the least problems/returns according to user reviews. Hybred drives are interesting, too. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
May 8, 201214 yr You guys should read some of the comments in the review I posted. I tend to go with law of averages on these things. SSD's can all be iffy, but some are certainly "iffy-er" than others. When all is said and done, the Intels (of every series) seem to come out on top again and again for the least problems/returns according to user reviews. Hybred drives are interesting, too. I think for Intel reliability is #1, but the SF2281 has been really troublesome. Intel must be very ###### with SF. The main reason to go with the Marvell geared M4 instead is that it's been error free for ages. The Intel unit is still a Sandforce 2281. User reviews favour the Samsung 830 and Crucial M4 if that's what you want to go by, and I think you should
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