how is samsung more "trusted" then crucial / intel partnership? :\
The only thing the MX100 doesn't have is the track record due to it being a new drive.
However id trust a Original Intel SSD over a Samsung SSD ANY day of the week/month/year.
However those arent cheap... but i have a a X-25E which will probably outlast ANY SSD samsung makes including the new 3d nands due to the X-25E being a SLC drive.
That's not what I meant and you know that. Also reccomending Intel at this point would be horrible specially comparing it to any SLC drive. It's like you skimmed the thread and read "samsung" and "trusted" and took offense to it.
Samsung, Micron, Intel, and Liteon are considered trusted suppliers and would be tier 1 choices for most people. Liteon really only sells to OEM's so you scratch them off. Intel's products are almost always at the top of pricing on a given size so you can write that off. That leaves Samsung and Micron. The Samsung is the fastest drive of the two (and really its faster than just about any comparative consumer drive). But the MX100 is cheaper than just about any other drive in its range.
Now that said you are right the MX100 doesn't have the history to back it up. But Micron does plus its the same controller as the M550 and honestly only a slightly spiffed up controller compared to the M4 and M500 ones. So what you have is a drive you can project with a history of reliable drives, from C300-M550 that have been nearly problem free, that this one is going to be nearly the same.
As for Intel their not even that great compared to Samsung. The Intel drive during the PB testing cut out with less information written than the Samsung drives. It did so by cutting out as soon as it hit an internal limit on data instead of letting the drive die natural due to writes.
As for your 25-E SLC helps it but so does the much older process. But I would watch out. The 3D nand stuff is probably going to rip past your drive. Between going back proccess and having drastically more data to support and current tech in controllers for wear leveling. We could be talking about Exabytes worth of data that could be written to these drives, certainly several hundred Petabytes.