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SSD what manufacture makes the best drives for the price.
What company should I be looking at for SSDs. I know every company has had stories of DOA parts or failures after a few weeks. Just want to know who are the more trusted companies.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
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Samsung EVO is a premium product. It delivers superior performance, but is also priced higher than most other brands.Octagon7711 said:Samsung EVO seems to be the most popular now. I have an Intel that's around five years old and still running strong.
OP seems to be looking for a "value" product. Crucial's BX200 480GB SSD is under $120 on Amazon while the equivalent EVO is ~$155. Adata's 480GB SSD is ~$110.
As far as performance goes, you won't notice a difference between SSDs in gaming. Where one SSD might take 5 seconds to load a game, another might take 5.2 seconds, while a hard drive probably takes 30+ seconds.
OP: You can't really go wrong with your SSD choice. They all have early failure chance. That's what customer service and warranties are for. Pick a retailer that makes getting the SSD replaced easier, or pick a brand that handles customer service well. Performance only matters for very specific applications, not gaming.
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Most every other SSD will be some combination of other parts (NAND and controller being the major two) rebranded, maybe with a custom firmware. That being said, there isn't necessarily anything wrong with that, as it's all nearly become a commodity item by now.
I have had excellent luck with Crucial and Samsung personally.
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SanDisk also deserves a little credit though, and is pretty well acknowledge for performance to value ratio.
You could argue that Samsung makes the best SSDs, at least if you restrict to consumer grade stuff. But they're a much harder sell once you bring prices in, as they charge a considerable price premium.
I most commonly recommend Crucial or Mushkin SSDs, though again, it depends on the prices that day. Crucial (Micron) makes their own NAND, so they've got more integration than some vendors, and they're pretty aggressive on prices for their budget drives. Mushkin, meanwhile, has consistently avoided bad products and is very aggressive on prices.
The bad old SSDs that struggled with random writes are pretty much gone by now. So among what's left, the things that matter are capacity, price, and reliability. Reliability is unfortunately hard to gauge. Note that I'm leaving performance out here, as if this SSD is twice as fast as that one, for most real-world purposes, that's a rounding error. Once you're not waiting on storage, faster storage doesn't help.
For what it's worth, I've got a Crucial SSD in both my desktop and my laptop. My previous desktop has a Seagate SSD. I originally built it with an OCZ SSD, but it died at the best possible time. Yes, there is a best possible time for an SSD to die: I had just replaced it for reasons of age and formatted it so that I could give it away. Formatting the drive seems to have killed it.
I have a OCZ vertex 2 that everyone said was going to explode and make radioactive fallout in my computer room 6 months after... that was 5.5 years ago and it has been the OS drive in my gaming PC since then. No issues. Like everything electronics, they all have % failure rates. If you happen to be in that 0.7% that gets a failed part, you're going to assume that the company makes bad products and not recommend them to anyone.
Basic Gist, find the SSD with the best price/gb and don't worry about it.
Unless you are doing some very specific tasks, for a gaming ssd they're all 6 of one half a dozen of the other.
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2 Samsung inc m2ssd which is my os and love them.
I dont honestly think there is much difference overall, but if price is important then cant really go to far wrong with sandisk
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I have an OCZ that is ~5 years old and i am strongly thinking about replacing it in the next couple of months. I don't need it immediately (at least not yet). I just want ideas of who to avoid. Looks like there are some repeats on the list. I guess I will price them over the next few months and go from there.
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http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx?cm_sp=Homepage_SS-_-P2_20-226-792-_-06032016&Index=2
It's not really that much cheaper than some alternatives, but it's still a good price on a good drive. Free shipping, too.