Originally Posted By: Taym
What do you think of them? It seems they use Samsung own controller. Price/MB is quite good.

I'll put it this way. I absolutely despise most of Samsung due to how they run their business as a cheap clone shop. And I run a Samsung 830 SSD in my main machine. Their SSD business is one of the few divisions I'm willing to buy stuff from, and currently are my go to vendor for SSD drives (previously Intel). The seem to work great in any machine, under Windows, OS X or Linux.

I still won't go anywhere near a SanForce controller, hence my change from Intel to Samsung. Intel started using SanForce, and had some similar problems to other vendors using them. I know many people have them and are happy, I just don't trust them.

I am eyeing the new lineup of Crucial/Micron SSDs, for the price. With any new SSD controller though, I take a wait and see approach. SSD tech is getting better, but still has some problems from time to time. I waited on the Samsung SSDs for a bit before trusting one.

Originally Posted By: Dignan
I don't have an SSD for my main drive, but I do have one of those WD Raptor drives, which is pretty fast.

Nope. I had a Raptor (two actually, 300 then 600GB) as my main system drive. It was the king of the slow hill (horse and carriage style tech). Transitioning to an SSD for the system drive is a huge leap up. If you can find a bit of spare cash next computer upgrade time, go for the SSD even as a replacement for a Raptor.