What's the current go-to SSD?

azibux1 · 23 Aug 2017 at 23:34

Hi all,

Used to be the 840 EVO but one of mine (only 3 years old

) appears to have given up...

What's currently recommended? Had a quick search here but didn't find much.

850 EVO? Is the 850 PRO really worth the extra?

Thanks!

As a side note, if anyone has any ideas on bringing my old one back to life I would be ever so grateful

ha

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/ssd-not-showing-in-system-anymore.18790422/

rtho782 · 24 Aug 2017 at 12:26

My boot drive is still an 850 EVO, it works really well, you'd probably not notice the difference with the Pro. If you want more performance, you need to go m.2

azibux1 · 24 Aug 2017 at 12:33

rtho782 said:
My boot drive is still an 850 EVO, it works really well, you'd probably not notice the difference with the Pro. If you want more performance, you need to go m.2

Don't really need even more performance to be honest haha

Plus my mobo doesn't have m.2

Looks like it's gonna be 850 EVO then!

TallPaul1878 · 24 Aug 2017 at 12:35

rtho782 said:
My boot drive is still an 850 EVO, it works really well, you'd probably not notice the difference with the Pro. If you want more performance, you need to go m.2

Yep this^^^

If you look at the top selling SSD drives then Samsung is at the top at almost every price point and product type.

You won't go wrong with any of the major brands. If you can snag a good deal on a Kingston, Sandisk, Western Digital branded drive then jump right on it

azibux1 · 24 Aug 2017 at 12:36

TallPaul1878 said:
Yep this^^^

If you look at the top selling SSD drives then Samsung is at the top at almost every price point and product type.

You won't go wrong with any of the major brands. If you can snag a good deal on a Kingston, Sandisk, Western Digital branded drive then jump right on it

Just hit the go button on a 500GB 850 EVO!

Just need to think now if it is worth a clean OS install on that and use the 840 for storage. Or carry on as I am and use the 850 for storage

Hmm

james_2k · 24 Aug 2017 at 12:37

same as i use, still working great!

rtho782 · 24 Aug 2017 at 12:43

Copy the partition over from the 840 to the 850 perhaps?

james_2k · 24 Aug 2017 at 12:43

always worth a clean install

azibux1 · 24 Aug 2017 at 12:58

rtho782 said:
Copy the partition over from the 840 to the 850 perhaps?

james_2k said:
always worth a clean install

Yeah I would always try and do clean install. I prefer it.

Think that's what I'll do. May as well put the OS on the latest drive!

jrwagh333 · 24 Aug 2017 at 14:17

I thought you said your 840 had died?

wrenaudrey · 24 Aug 2017 at 19:28

Samsung, Crucial, top two for me.
850 Evo is more than enough unless you're writing a lot!

azibux1 · 24 Aug 2017 at 22:04

jrwagh333 said:
I thought you said your 840 had died?

Ahh sorry wasn't clear enough... I have a working 500GB 840 and a seemingly now faulty 250GB 840

wrenaudrey said:
Samsung, Crucial, top two for me.
850 Evo is more than enough unless you're writing a lot!

Great to know!

should be delivered tomorrow

GWANGY · 26 Aug 2017 at 11:05

nOT having a go BUT you have had a product fail well before its allotted timespan , yet you are deciding to go back to the same mfr for further drives?
If that was a seagate drive ppl would be saying "yeah of course what do you expect?"
Admittedly I use all Samsung ssd 840 and 850 too .. I also use a refurb ocz ssd pre tosihiba :eek:

which has been good too.
Actually I also have a foresee 60gb m2 drive which benchmarks reasonably (500 r/110 w) seems ok ..

lsg1r · 26 Aug 2017 at 23:00

wrenaudrey said:
Samsung, Crucial, top two for me.

Same, although can't really comment on recent crucials. I've still got a crucial m4 ticking away nicely as a scratch disk on new pc after previously being an OS drive on my old pc while an evo 850 is currently the main os/program drive.

Avalon · 27 Aug 2017 at 03:48

GWANGY said:
nOT having a go BUT you have had a product fail well before its allotted timespan , yet you are deciding to go back to the same mfr for further drives?
If that was a seagate drive ppl would be saying "yeah of course what do you expect?"
Admittedly I use all Samsung ssd 840 and 850 too .. I also use a refurb ocz ssd pre tosihiba which has been good too.
Actually I also have a foresee 60gb m2 drive which benchmarks reasonably (500 r/110 w) seems ok ..

Generally anyone who's been around long enough has the sense not to regurgitate that level of stupidity on demand, those that do remind me of the kind of people who will tell you how they are voting now based on things that happened before they or the people they are voting for or against were involved in politics or in some cases born. Seagate, OCZ, WD and IBM/HGST all have had issues as pretty much everyone else at some stage, some were fixed via firmware, some were hardware issues, some were just really poor products, judge them on the products they sell today and how they deal with issues related to products they made mistakes with. Would that put me off Seagate? I have two Ironwolf 8TB's and if WD's £/TB wasn't stupidly low I'd have more next month.

Samsung and NVMe if you want the top end of performance, in practical terms it makes little difference for an average home desktop scenario, the law of diminishing returns kicked in a long time ago.

Akagi · 27 Aug 2017 at 04:39

I still use a 256GB Sammy 830

Samsung drives are great still to the best of my knowledge. To be honest, any SSD will serve you fine if it is from a reputable manufacturer. Solid state storage is very much tried and tested now.

azibux1 · 29 Aug 2017 at 04:18

Thanks all

I actually surprisingly am probably sending the 850 back... all my fault though really lol. I looked and do not really 'need' that space at all so am just gonna stick with the one 500GB 840 that I have working and just take the loss on the 250GB that failed.

On a related note, I contacted Samsung as I believe my drive was only just 1 month out of warranty - they were unfortunately still unwilling to assist at all.