SSD Recommendation

kimandsally · 11 May 2014 at 17:46

wazza300 said:
Samsung,then crucial then everything else and lastly ocz regarding reliability

Thank you that has narrowed it down to the Crucial M500 or the Samsung Evo 840.
How much real world difference is there between these?

wazza300 · 11 May 2014 at 17:50

not really,get whatever one is the cheapest imo

window · 12 May 2014 at 20:45

im wondering when the next big price drop will be for ssd's. i got me a 120 m4, but will be looking for the next one to be at least half a gig. Just not ready to pay hundreds on a little more storage.

kimandsally · 12 May 2014 at 21:25

I know exactly when the drop will happen, the day after I buy mine

kimandsally · 13 May 2014 at 09:37

Still not took the plunge been reading reviews, I've been leaning towards a Sandisk Extreme 11 do you know how reliable the Sandisk SSD's are and where is there base for warranty if required? It's the 240 250 gb models I'm looking at.

foster grant · 13 May 2014 at 10:02

Samsung.

kimandsally · 13 May 2014 at 10:15

foster grant said:
Samsung.

Don't want to bash any company but is Samsung a lot better than Sandisk for reliabilty.
I can't find any data on reliability on SSD's.

chillidog · 13 May 2014 at 10:16

Kyo said:
Hi

Always resisted the temptation to SSD but being a gamer i have noticed sometime games can wait on seek time from the OS.

From reading other threads and (including my friends) it is highly recommend for performance boost. I am not going to move my game partition over, so really looking for a 120Gb SSD to move my OS partition over to help with the bottleneck seek time. Can anyone recommend a good make 120GB SSD, bang for buck.

Thanks
Kyo

i have had crucial in the past and very good :cool:

and then i had samsung which is something different

llamadal · 13 May 2014 at 12:52

wazza300 said:
Samsung EVO or crucial m500/550

this!

I have both, had the m500 first and recently got the evo, great value for money now considering the price when they first came out

kimandsally · 13 May 2014 at 13:21

llamadal said:
this!

I have both, had the m500 first and recently got the evo, great value for money now considering the price when they first came out

Which if you had to buy replacements would you now buy as you have the knowledge of both of them?

Psypher5 · 13 May 2014 at 13:24

I recently got a seagate 600 480gb. Its still fast enough for me

welshdragon · 13 May 2014 at 19:23

chillidog said:
i have had crucial in the past and very good and then i had samsung which is something different

Same here . Bought an evo for my new build recently, very happy

llamadal · 13 May 2014 at 19:45

good question, probably the evo - the software that comes with it is pretty good and its been faultless so far.

i've had a few crucial drives because of failures, but don't let that be big put off, the customer service offered by crucial is very good.

kimandsally · 15 May 2014 at 19:20

Went with the Samsung Evo 840 250gb looking forward to it.

gothic_hobbit · 16 May 2014 at 17:34

Why are Samsung SSD's cheaper than other brands ?

Are they less reliable ?

wazza300 · 16 May 2014 at 17:36

they are one of the most reliable

don't know why they are cheaper but im not complaining

Stuen4y · 16 May 2014 at 17:37

gothic_hobbit said:
Why are Samsung SSD's cheaper than other brands ?

Are they less reliable ?

Samsung is one of the few manufacturers (the only one if I'm not wrong) that design and make everything in a SSD themselves - the NAND chips, the controller, and the whole packaging, PCB, etc. On my opinion, they are one of the two top picks, alongside Intel, when it comes to SSDs - regarding speed, reliability, RMA, everything pretty much.