SSD ,your favorire brand and model

Discussion in 'polls' started by mantra, Dec 6, 2016.

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SSD, your favorite brand and mode

  1. Samsung

    29 vote(s)
    50.9%
  2. Crucial

    14 vote(s)
    24.6%
  3. Intel

    2 vote(s)
    3.5%
  4. Adata

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  5. Intenso

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  6. Kingston

    2 vote(s)
    3.5%
  7. OCZ

    3 vote(s)
    5.3%
  8. Plextor

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  9. Sandisk

    4 vote(s)
    7.0%
  10. Trascend

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  11. Toshiba

    2 vote(s)
    3.5%
  12. Silicon Power

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  13. Other

    1 vote(s)
    1.8%
  1. mantra

    mantra Registered Member

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    hi

    may i know which is your favorite ssd brand and model ?
    according to performance and reliability

    recently i bought a crucial SSD Crucial MX300 , very close to the samsung evo 850

    may i know you choice ?
    i wanted to create a new thread in the hardware section with a compare made by the users of this forum (because there so many ) between ssd seeing we are at the end of 2016 , but i guess the administrators will take it like a douple thread
    thanks
     
  2. roger_m

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    I've got a KingFast F9 which I purchased nearly 18 months ago. It's a cheap Chinese brand, but it was all I could afford. It was a choice of buying a cheap SSD or sticking with my hard drive. Its reliability has been fine so far. I use it in my main laptop which I use for 12+ hours a day, every day and it's had nearly 26TB of data written to it so far. It still shows 100% health in Hard Disk Sentinel.

    I haven't owned any other SSDs.

    My next SSD will most likely be a Samsung. I want to replace my current drive, as 256GB is not enough for me, but can't afford to at the moment.
     
  3. ReverseGear

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    Have only used samsung ssd so don't know about any other brands . Have 2 ssd's - 850 evo and 840 evo . Very pleased with the performance
     
  4. Fad

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    I don`t have a favourite as I haven`t tested enough different ones to be able to compare between them.

    In use are (in order of age) an OCZ Vertex, an OCZ Agility3 and a couple of budget Zheino branded ones.

    Up to this point in time I haven`t had issues with any. (the vertex is 6 years old)
     
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  5. BoerenkoolMetWorst

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    A very new poll, but already most answers are Samsung. I won't buy any Samsung SSD though:
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  6. mantra

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    hi
    i have never seen it
    may i know which firmware ? ISO EXT0DB6Q ? it's an old firmware
    thanks
     
  7. RJK3

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    I've bought and used SSDs from the following companies: Crucial, Samsung, Kingspec, Sandisk, and Toshiba. Have benchmarks for most of them if anyone is curious: http://imgur.com/a/G3zFi

    Best performers and most reliable have been Crucial and Kingspec, all MLC. Not many people know Kingspec, but I have 6 SSDs and 5 SSD USB flash drives from them all bought at a good discount. Personally wouldn't touch the new 3D NAND from Crucial, although they'd be fine for general use.

    Had 3 drives with Samsung, but stopped buying Samsung after the way they dealt with customers who complained about the infamous 840 series slowdown issues.

    Sandisk was pretty slow, passed it onto a friend. Didn't keep the benchmarks sorry.

    The Toshiba is insanely fast, being a PCIE m.2 device.
     
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  8. BoerenkoolMetWorst

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  9. mantra

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  10. jadinolf

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    I voted for Crucial because I have 4 of them and I am very happy with their performance.

    The only other SSD I have is an OCZ 120G which was the first one I ever bought. No complaints.
     
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  11. xxJackxx

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    Intel, any model. More reliable than most. We have some Crucial and some Sandisk models at work. The Sandisk ones are noticeably faster and none of them have failed yet. I had a couple of Mushkin models previously, and though they were fast neither of them lasted very long.
     
  12. Krusty

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    I've only experienced Crucial SSDs on my machines but they've been bullet proof so far so I'm happy to use them.
     
  13. ance

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    Samsung! :thumb:
     
  14. Minimalist

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    +1
     
  15. luciddream

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    Samsung regular SSD's and mSATA SSD's have served me well. Over 2 years later and they're as fast as the day I got them. No problems. And according to Samsung Magician are still healthy. And I'm someone that has CCleaner delete my sandboxes automatically every time I close them so you could say I'm hard on them. Secure wipes too, but only 1 pass.
     
  16. blacknight

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    I have a Kingston SSD since 14 months and it works fine.
     
  17. RJK3

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    Actually just realised I spoke in error. I've actually got another Sandisk in a family member's machine, and it performs quite well. Much better than the one I passed on.

    Here's the benchmark for a Sandisk Ultra II 960gb:
    http://imgur.com/a/1gSsz

    With a 40gb SLC cache, the benchmark results don't even look at the TLC portion. I would have to dig up another tool to measure the read performance of old data that would long have been moved to the TLC.
     
  18. clubhouse1

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    Can't really say because I've only used one brand, it's a Toshiba (128GB) and it still works just fine after 2 years. But because I hate HDD's, I want to replace my SSD + HDD combo with two SSD's, is this easy to do? I'm planning to buy a 500GB SSD, storage space is not that important to me.
     
  20. mantra

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    hi
    so fast ,amazing
    i tought sandisk are the faster ,and after the corsair according reading several web pages tests
    sorry , what do you mean ? 40gb slc cache?
    thanks
     
  21. Tarnak

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    I had no say. Whatever comes with the Surface Book. So, I voted "other".
     
  22. jwcca

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    I have 7 Crucials, 2-250s, 2-256s, 2-275s & 1-525.
    I also have 4 Corsairs, 2-60s and 2-120s and one of the 120s failed.
    I also have a Kingston 128.
     
  23. ArchiveX

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    +1 for Crucial :thumb:
     
  24. Scott W

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    Ordered my very first SSD, a Samsung Evo 850, because it's replacing the HDD in my Samsung laptop, so I thought it might be more compatible than other brands. I won't realize its full (performance) potential as my laptop only supports SATA II, but I'm sure it will still be a big improvement.
     
  25. roger_m

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    You will notice a huge difference in speed with a SSD. It won't make any difference what brand of SSD you use. But, Samsung is a good choice of brand.
     
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