intel 256gb 335 ssd

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Im in the market for a new ssd for my os cause my 60gb agility 3 while still running well I constantly have to manage the space. That being said are the intel 335 any good I know it still runs the not so popular sandforce controller but its hitting the sweetspot price wise @ R2100

I will also need to clone my existing disk and port it over onto the new disk, what are the best app to do this and what prerequisites should be taken into account when performing this.

Thanks
 
NomNom said:
Why not just go for this?

OCZ Agility 4 256GB - R2,208 + R75 (shipping) = R2283.00

5 Year warranty and blazing fast.
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I was looking at agility 4 when I initially started looking around, for some reason i'm just leaning more towards the Intel 335. I know the Intel uses synchronous instead of the agility's asynchronous nand flash, how this translate into real world performance i really don't know.

Ok so its a toss between the 2, which one do I choose? :whistle:
 
Real-world benchmarks show the Intel 335 to be faster. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/695?vs=643

TBH, I'd steer clear of Asynchronous NAND whenever possible. It might look decent on synthetic benchmarks, but it is quite inferior to synchronous and toggle NAND. The only issue with Sandforce is that its speed is based on compressing data, and so speeds drop for data that is incompressible. For use as an OS drive with programs/games, I'd say the 335 would be better than the Agility.

Only kicker would be 3 year warranty on the 335 vs 5 years on the Agility.
 
Thanks for all the comments guys. I settled on an crucial m4 I believe this drive is well
received in the industry. Cheers
 
abs1 said:
Thanks for all the comments guys. I settled on an crucial m4 I believe this drive is well
received in the industry. Cheers
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Yeah. Not the fastest, but a very good record of reliability.
 
Very happy with the overall performance, as stated not the fastest but a better performer than my current agility 3.

I had a tough time restoring my old partition onto the new drive using acronis ti, kept on getting the "bootmgr missing" error. It took me a good couple of hours figuring it out. I had to restore both the primary and reserved partition first then recover the boot last. Didn't have the clone option as I was running a trial version of acronis.

All good now. :D
 
I had an 160GB Intel SSD die on me once. Only SSD that ever died. Other Intel SSD worked well but is now retired and serves as a backup.
 
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