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Safest SSD Option?

Goftrey

Goftrey

macrumors 68000
Original poster
May 20, 2011
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Wales, UK
I'm looking at ripping out the old, loud, slow, hot stock hard drive in my little PowerBook with an SSD.

After a couple of minutes searching the Kingspec SSD's are by far the cheapest around. However I've heard people in the past on here having issues with these drives. Are they reliable/worth buying over something like a Scorpio Blue?

I've also come across these Samsung SSD's. Are they decent?

Cheers.
 
Intell

Intell

macrumors P6
Jan 24, 2010
18,955
509
Inside
Those Samsung drives came out a few years ago. They're not very fast, slower than that IDE bus.
 
grockk

grockk

macrumors 6502
Mar 16, 2006
365
5
Here's what I did. Highly recommended. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1633108/
 
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noodles168

macrumors newbie
Jun 16, 2008
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Samsung 240 pro

Goftrey said:
I'm looking at ripping out the old, loud, slow, hot stock hard drive in my little PowerBook with an SSD.

After a couple of minutes searching the Kingspec SSD's are by far the cheapest around. However I've heard people in the past on here having issues with these drives. Are they reliable/worth buying over something like a Scorpio Blue?

I've also come across these Samsung SSD's. Are they decent?

Cheers.
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I installed a Samsung pro in my Mac Mini four months ago and it is great. Start up time is very fast and I haven't any operating problems. To offset the somewhat limited capacity 240g I have installed a USB external HD. Now I see you can buy the SSDs reconed. from Samsung for under 150. As an aside I maxed out the memory too.
 
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