What are you talking about? Prices have dropped - tremendously! You need to change your mentality then. Dell, HP, Acer are always looking for ways to cut corners for more profit. And they do it by going with the cheapest OEM makers they can find, then go further by making cost cutting proprietary modifications to those parts. If you want to go big names, great! Then think ASUS and Gigabyte motherboards, Crucial RAM, Seasonic and EVGA power supplies, ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI graphics, WD and Seagate hard drives, Samsung SSDs, Fractal Design and NZXT cases. Huh? Of course they still cost money. WD is not giving drives away for free, and DVR makers are not giving away DVRs either. I think ZMsiXone's thread has been driven too far off topic already. This thread is about SSD life expectancy. Back on course.
Big names don't always stand for quality. Not from what I've seen. Also they don't stand much for service
Obviously, I meant that I had hoped that SSD prices would have dropped to a point that they would have already replaced HDD's in both laptops and desktops. And I'm talking about 512GB to 1TB SSD's. I can't wait to get rid of those slow HDD's. I never really thought about it in this way. I always assumed they used the best components. But to me, CPU, GPU and SSD are the most important, they should always be from big name brands.
I'm with you there. In fact, all my own personal builds for the last couple years have been SSD only. I personally think the extra initial costs are worth it, and pay off in the long run when I factor in my own time. But I realize that is not financially feasible for some. No way. They do try to buy reliable components, but the best? No way. And even within the same brand name, reliability is not consistent. Take Corsair power supplies as an example. Years ago, if the PSU said Corsair on the case, you knew you were getting a quality PSU. But as they grew in popularity and started selling more and more models, they started to cut corners with their entry-level lines. So today, I no longer recommend their VS or CX line of PSUs. The quality is just not there, IMO. But their top tier lines (AXi, HXi and RMi) are highly recommended. This is the same with many manufacturers and products, not just Corsair or their PSUs. I always build my own and recommend folks do the same. I always tell people I can never compete in price with the big makers, but I can always build a better computer because I can do the research and buy the best - based on my specific needs (or the specific needs of my client). But because I don't have the purchasing power, I cannot go to Intel, NVIDIA, Samsung, Gigabyte, Crucial, or EVGA and promise to buy 1,000,000 CPUs, graphics cards, SSDs, motherboards, RAM or PSUs over the next year. I cannot demand or get those fantastic volume discounts when I am only buying 1 of each. So I can only promise to build a better computer that is truly customized for me (or my clients).
Seriously, HDD's need to die. I just hate the delay when accessing files on both my desktop and DVR, you wouldn't have this with SSD's. I know what you mean, luckily I have never had any big problems though. But to get back on topic, what brands would you recommend for SSD's? I have been trying to figure out which SSD is being used in the Lenovo desktop, but I couldn't find it.
Not the point. First, hard drives are not that slow. And speed is not a necessity for every storage scenario. DVRs are a perfect example. Hard drives can very easily keep up with streaming demands - even at the highest resolutions. You are just spoiled by SSDs. And recommended brands are not the topic of this thread. In fact, I think this thread has run its course.
When I record a show, and try to access already recorded shows on my DVR, there is this annoying delay, simply because the HDD isn't fast enough. And I'm currently using a SSD+HDD combo, and whenever I try to access a folder with many subfolders, Win Explorer can't open those folders instantly. Once again because the HDD is too slow.
How Long Do SSDs Really Last? July 27, 2020 https://www.cbronline.com/data-centre/how-long-do-ssds-really-last/
Sounds good to me, 10 years is not bad at all. And I'm glad that I decided to not use virtual machines for software testing, because that would have reduced the life span of my SSD.
