Different SSD manufacturers. What's been your experience?

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Solarion

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What is the best value for money SSD one can buy? I'm looking to get a 250gig. Which ones have you guys used? I've always preferred Western Digital when it comes to the mechanical drives. Everyone has their favorites.

ADATA
Corsair
Crucial
GALAX
Intel
Kingston
OCZ
Samsung
Seagate
Transcend
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Rather pay little more and have equal R/W vs ****ty W with fast R.

Preference Corsair / Samsung
 
I've only used Samsung and Intel and they have never given me any issues. The Samsung is around 7-8 years old too.
 
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I've got an old OCZ Agility 3 60GB, a bit long in the tooth but I have no gripes with it...

I've heard only good things about Samsung SSD's so maybe consider that as a benchmark and take it from there
 
Samsung/Intel/Crucial (Micron) tend to be good bets, but there's less of a difference in brands now than there were when SSDs first started becoming more mainstream; the earlier issues with weak controllers and high failure rates are almost eliminated.
 
Almost all of those are fine or good, Samsung evo 850 is kilometres ahead in value for money at the moment though.
 
Let me ask if from a different angle...

Are you replacing your current OS/Boot drive in a desktop/notebook?

By the discussion it seems you are not after pure performance, just making the great decision to replace an old spinning boot drive with an SSD - which is a great idea - lots of advice to offer around not having to reinstall everything...

If you are however after pure performance, and have a desktop to play with, then there are much faster alternatives to consider...
Im referring to pci-e based flash - but you need specific ports to plug into - etc..

The interface is called M.2:

Windows option:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-NV...UTF8&qid=1466074048&sr=8-7&keywords=pci-e+ssd

For mac -

http://store.mcetech.com/mm/merchan...&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=256GBPCIESSD-L13M14

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IguBu said:
Let me ask if from a different angle...

Are you replacing your current OS/Boot drive in a desktop/notebook?

By the discussion it seems you are not after pure performance, just making the great decision to replace an old spinning boot drive with an SSD - which is a great idea - lots of advice to offer around not having to reinstall everything...

If you are however after pure performance, and have a desktop to play with, then there are much faster alternatives to consider...
Im referring to pci-e based flash - but you need specific ports to plug into - etc..

The interface is called M.2:

Windows option:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-NV...UTF8&qid=1466074048&sr=8-7&keywords=pci-e+ssd

For mac -

http://store.mcetech.com/mm/merchan...&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=256GBPCIESSD-L13M14

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I am building a new desktop PC machine, basically a gaming rig. I saw a few of these cards/drives. They are around 5k each and as much as I would like one they are just not within my budget. Would be great though.
 
Solarion said:
What is the best value for money SSD one can buy? I'm looking to get a 250gig. Which ones have you guys used? I've always preferred Western Digital when it comes to the mechanical drives. Everyone has their favorites.
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Personal ranking:

1) Samsung, Intel, Crucial, SanDisk, Kingston
2) Seagate, Toshiba/OCZ, Corsair
3) Transcend
4) ADATA
5) Galax

Of course, this becomes trickier depending on your workload and use case. Do you want a cheap boot drive? Grab an TLC drive with a Silicon Motion or modern Phison controller. Do you want run-of-the-mill performance and a good brand? Go for Corsair.

Pure performance? Samsung or Crucial. Cheaper in-house designs and memory? Toshiba/OCZ (on a side note, in a year's time Toshiba/OCZ will be right up there with the big guns). Reliability and best software support? Intel. Best value for money? SanDisk or Kingston.

Laptop suggestions also become and issue because some vendors get their high performance profiles through overvolting the memory or overclocking the controller, as Intel and Samsung are wont to do more often than not. I actually recommend MLC drives with Silicon Motion controllers for mobile applications for the most part, which, if you're cheap, means something from Transcend.

It's an interesting market. Oh, and to answer your question: Samsung SSD 750 250GB EVO
 
Wasabee! said:
You won't get any because it isn't true. Samsung make their own NAND, controller and firmware for example.
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And they make for others. Just because they make their own proprietary hardware does not mean they don't manufacture components for other competing brands.

Open any SSD and look how many chips are manufactured by Samsung.
 
genetic said:
And they make for others. Just because they make their own proprietary hardware does not mean they don't manufacture components for other competing brands.

Open any SSD and look how many chips are manufactured by Samsung.
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Crucial is manufactured by... Crucial.
 
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