What SSD ?

[BonkersMental]

Hi Guys. Im looking to buy a 240GB SSD and just need some advice please. Are All SSDs now pretty much the same as compared to a few years ago when the format was new ?, give or take a few millisecounds of read of write times , and should i avoid certain SSDs with certain controllers. my budget of £50 - £60 leaves me sooo many to choose from.Any Advice would be welcome.

 

[AlienALX]

Samsung if you can. Intel are also incredibly reliable (I've never had one fail). Avoid Corsair (do they still make them? worst I've used for failure rates) and try and avoid Sandisk because I've had issues with mine already (like it vanishing for eight painful angst filled hours).

 

[Excalabur50]

Samsung or Crucial are your best choices

 

[AlienALX]

Samsung or Crucial are your best choices

After the 500 hour bug (that cost my mate £350*) and a couple of other issues I would not really recommend Crucial. I know they have probably got their act together now but yeah, better off with Samsung really.

*OK so my mate got the 500 hour bug and had no idea it even existed. He ended up buying a new mobo, CPU and ram thinking it was one of those and it turned out to be the SSD, the last thing he ever suspected. Nuts !

 

[BonkersMental]

Samsung and crucial..thanks for the advice, this will help me narrow down my search.tho i think Samsung are on the more expensive side but if a 120gb samsung is affordable i might be tempted. its basically gonna be used for OS and a few Fav games. the rest of storage will be on an Large HDD when funds allow. Thankies

ive heard myself that Samsung is the way to go, maybe you do get for what you pay for in some instances!just had a quick search and was surprised that Samsung is within my budget, see link...https://www.scan.co.uk/products/250...m_medium=cpc&gclid=CLajq6GHjM8CFWcW0wod4YYMzg

is this model any good ?

 

[AlienALX]

Samsung and crucial..thanks for the advice, this will help me narrow down my search.tho i think Samsung are on the more expensive side but if a 120gb samsung is affordable i might be tempted. its basically gonna be used for OS and a few Fav games. the rest of storage will be on an Large HDD when funds allow. Thankies

OS and a few games on a 120gb? doubt it. What is your budget man?

Edit OK yeah cool that drive should be good

 

[wrenaudrey]

IMHO you really should not be buying atleast <250GB SSDs nowdays. Throw an OS, programs and 2-3 games, you're down to looking for another drive. Games in itself(from my own daily game library) is atleast 40GB and with GTA5 taking 66GB on mine.

IMO 500GB SSDs are the way to go. I know, budget and all that...but my 50pence

But to give a recommendation, Yes - Samsung is probably the safest bet. There's so little in price difference between one or the other brands, might aswell go Samsung.

 

[BonkersMental]

modern titles being so large these days ill get the biggest i can afford without sacrificing quality if there is such a beast. thanks for all you comments.

 

[Wraith]

Samsung if you can. Intel are also incredibly reliable (I've never had one fail). Avoid Corsair (do they still make them? worst I've used for failure rates) and try and avoid Sandisk because I've had issues with mine already (like it vanishing for eight painful angst filled hours).

I wouldn't say avoid Corsair I've had mine for 2 years now and not a single issue even with my system being active almost 24/7, like wise for TTL he uses Corsair SSDs in his test rigs and they are all still going strong.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Ive had 2 in Orca since 2012 in RAID-0 without a single blip.

TBH I think Ive got all of the review samples in test rigs of one thing or another, even WYP has old review samples from here in his work and test rig.

Samsung and Crucial are other strong brands and Kingston do well too.

You need to decide if you want all out speed or just a relatively fast storage drive on the cheap?

 

[Excalabur50]

I can say I've had 3 XT Corsairs die but I've had no issues with the LS I guess it depends on the model

 

[BonkersMental]

probably gonno go for the samsung https://www.scan.co.uk/products/250...m_medium=cpc&gclid=CLajq6GHjM8CFWcW0wod4YYMzg. . I also have an M2 socket and on my MSI Z97 gaming 3 mobo,which i thought might compromise the graphics card as they both use the PCIe lanes, but after research this wont impact worse performance using a single graphics card (might be slight performance loss with 2 or more graphics cards tho) as the LGA 1150 MOBOs only allocate 2 lanes max for an m2 card. so i now have 2 issues. lol.. 1, buy samsung ssd or 2 get an M2 sata card. hmm, more confused now than when i started.

 

[AlienALX]

I wouldn't say avoid Corsair I've had mine for 2 years now and not a single issue even with my system being active almost 24/7, like wise for TTL he uses Corsair SSDs in his test rigs and they are all still going strong.

I've had three fail. All different series too (Nova, X and F series etc)

 

[Wraith]

I've had three fail. All different series too (Nova, X and F series etc)

Just a run of bad luck I dunno, but you can't base your ideals on a line of products they no longer sell.. the Neutron and Force LX & LS drives are all excellent.

 

[Kushiro]

Go for the 850EVO. Avoid the 840EVOs. None of them are spotless, however Samsung offers the best budget drives at the moment. Soon enough they will be pretty similar though. Just dont go for the Trion series from Toshiba/OCZ unless you get it literally for half the price of the size you are looking for.

 

[AlienALX]

Just a run of bad luck I dunno, but you can't base your ideals on a line of products they no longer sell.. the Neutron and Force LX & LS drives are all excellent.

So I can't base my ideals on three different SSDs from different ranges, all different sizes but all from one company?

So what can I base my ideals on dude? and just when would you give up on a company after having three failed products from three etc?

 

[Kushiro]

Wraith was prob just saying that it could be a coincidence, albeit a very rare one

I've a few Corsairs myself and they have lasted a good long while in my NAS.

Then again, Ive also got a few OCZ drives and PSUs. All have been great, especially the Vertex 4 SSDs. Still have them and they work great.

 

[AlienALX]

Wraith was prob just saying that it could be a coincidence, albeit a very rare one

I've a few Corsairs myself and they have lasted a good long while in my NAS.

Then again, Ive also got a few OCZ drives and PSUs. All have been great, especially the Vertex 4 SSDs. Still have them and they work great.

It wasn't a coincidence. There were plenty of cases around the internet on the same series and same model etc.

I'm not saying all Corsair drives are bad but each time I bought them I paid more than the competition and look what I got for it, failed drives. I wouldn't buy another one because when they die it's an absolute shed load of aggro and normally leaves me having to buy another one before the RMA is complete because it takes ages. That's the bummer of losing a system drive.

So even if they did make the most reliable drives on the planet I still would not recommend them on price. At those prices you are starting to tread into Intel territory who do make the most reliable SSDs.

Plus their new ones are red. Which means any modder considering these then has to factor in the hassle and price of painting them. Why not just provide a plain black drive making modding a ten second job with a plotter? how many people build red and black PCs these days? bit of a risky strategy really, especially considering Samsung are about as neutral as possible.

So yeah, not saying the new drives are bad but if you had three products die on you all from different models/ranges yet all made by the same manufacturer how would you feel about it? keep buying them on a hope and a prayer?

I've only ever had one other drive fail from one other manu and that was Patriot. And the drive I bought was known for failing it was just so cheap that I didn't care (plus it was a game drive not a main system drive and they soon replaced it with a model costing three times as much that did not die).

 

[Kushiro]

Can see where your coming from but as usual its really each to their own.

Corsair are unlikely to ever have better prices given they that dont make anything inhouse.

 

[AlienALX]

Can see where your coming from but as usual its really each to their own.

Corsair are unlikely to ever have better prices given they that dont make anything inhouse.

Absolutely. Middle man etc.

For me Corsair have always made the best, most well backed (warranty wise) best looking memory there is. They've also had huge success with other things like cases (and even their fans I don't like, they're wildly popular) but I just don't rate their SSDs.