Opinions on Samsung SSD's

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I am about to take my first venture into the world of SSD's and have a limited budget. I would like around 500GB to clone my main boot drive without having to reinstall and have looked at both Sandisk Ultra 2 480Gb (£128) and Samsung Evo 850 500GB (£169)

Also, I have seen that Samsung drives come with a copy of watchdogs 2, seems like a deal sweetener!

Since planning however I have read horror stories of Crucial drives failing and wondered if anyone has any reason why one is better that the other? I know samsung now uses a stacked method for their memory. What would you choose?

Thanks
 
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Personally I'd pick the Samsung without any hesitation, just wish the prices were back where they were when I bought my 250GB evo 850 (I paid £50 new for it)
 
I picked up a crucial MX300 525GB for £129,

I had read a few bad things about a previous crucial drive and it worried me, however, the MX300 uses stacked V nand like the samsung and to be fair, I will run another drive in RAID so I should not have to worry about data loss.
Checking the history of drives has shown a few massive drops in price too, wish I had known at that time!
 
In a word, marvellous. I've got an old 250gb 830 as my desktop OS drive, a slightly younger 500gb 840 as my main programs/games drive, and a new 120gb 750 in my casual-use laptop.

All of them perform flawlessly with Win 10. The 830 had some power-saving issues with Win 7 (drive didn't always wake up), but they're gone in 10. Despite being 5 years old and having daily hibernates, it's still reporting tip-top health and less than half its maximum TBW. The 750 gave a slow i3 laptop a whole new lease of life, and it stopped being a slow, unstable, crashy machine and cruises through office and internet tasks with ease :)

And just talked the boss into getting me a 500gb 850 to pep up my office machine :)
 
Samsung SSD's are fantastic. Before Crucial started running the more "budget" orientated SSD's I'd have said it was a 50/50 trade off. The M4's were great until a software bug came up, of course upgrading the firmware fixed this but it knocked confidence in them and Samsung have pretty much been the "go to" since that point.

Even the "cheaper" EVO range now are pretty unbeatable.
 
Also, I have seen that Samsung drives come with a copy of watchdogs 2, seems like a deal sweetener! <--- where ??

I have Crucial Mx100 and Samsung 840 pro - both 128gb drives, not let me down yet. Sandisk SSD PLUS are pretty good too!
 
geordiejc said:
Also, I have seen that Samsung drives come with a copy of watchdogs 2, seems like a deal sweetener! <--- where ??

I have Crucial Mx100 and Samsung 840 pro - both 128gb drives, not let me down yet. Sandisk SSD PLUS are pretty good too!
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The deal ended already man, I had seen a link but failed to read the small print. Think it ended last month.
 
I have personally used samsung and intel SSD's. Samsung seem too have the balance between reliability and speed just right. First purchase was a 120Gb 840 Evo bin running for 3 years or so still running to this day. Another is more recent a 960 Evo nvme.
 
My first and only SSD purchased so far is an 850 evo.. So I've nothing to compare it to personally, but I'm happy with it, seems well reviewed and reasonable price compared to it's competitors.

Seems to be a safe option, and basically a drive which others are compared to.
 
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