Quote Originally Posted by thegoatman View Post
right. What about the samsung one? $30 more and it looks to be 30% faster, if I understand the specs properly.

As far as my longevity concerns above go: The way everything I have read made it sound, I was thinking I might get, oh, MAYBE 6 years out of one. I guess that's incorreect.
If you budget stretches enough, the Samsung 830 is a great choice. Fast and reliable.

No-one really knows how long you will get out of a drive, that is pretty random .... what I do know is that you are not going to wear it out doing any normal sort of things with your computer any time soon.