OCZ Petrol

[jamcd13]

Looking to get an SSD.

What our my best options for a decent price?

Are the new OCZ Petrol drives any more reliable than the older sandforce ones?

 

[alyoshka]

What is decent for you could mean a new car for me.....
Please specify a budget and capacity required and what Mobo is it going to be used on. Is it going to be used as a cache drive or OS Drive

 

[JohnnyLucky]

The OCZ Petrol is a new entry level ssd with an Indilinx Everest controller. Since it is new there is no proven track record. In addition, no English Language technical reviews have been published yet. At least I haven't found any yet.

Here is my standard recommendation:

If reliability and stability is a major concern, then I recommend Samsung. Samsung was awarded contracts to supply Dell, Sony, Lenovo, Apple and other off the shelf brands with OEM versions of their 470 Series SATA 2 3Gb/s ssd's. Eventually the 470's were released for retail sale to consumers. There have been no major issues reported. The 470 has an absolutely stellar record.

Then Samsung released their 830 Series SATA 3 6Gb/s ssd's as successors to the 470. The first ones were OEM versions for Dell and the other off the shelf brands followed by release of retail versions for consumers. The ssd's are Samsung's own design with their own components and firmware. It looks like Samsung got it right again.

Here is a link the to ssd database:

http://www.johnnylucky.org/data-storage/ssd-database.html

Scroll down to the brands and models you are interested in and then click on the links to the technical reviews.