Which ssd 480-512gb model would you suggest in terms of brand reliability and good speed?
Which ssd 480-512gb model?
imashination
#2
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#4
I have the Samsung 840 Pro 512 and it’s pretty quick. When I bought it, it was regarded as one of the better ones available.
imashination
#6
Crucial M500 / M550 and Samsung 840 both get positive feedback. I still have a crucial C300 from a few years back still going strong as my boot drive.
mister3d
#7
That’s cool, thank you. I take the samsung then, we’ll see how it works. I hope 512 gb will be enough for a system disk. I use 200 gb hdd now for it, and it’s like of enough, was. If it works for 5 years, I will be happy. Then I’m sure ssd’s will take over. Just like you predict, Imashination. I think we will see 2tb drives for 400-500$, which will be enough for most consumers.
ThE_JacO
#8
Samsung, in the consumer and prosumer areas, is still the safest bet for overall balance and bang for buck.
Pro or not doesn’t make a huge difference, so base that on budget.
The 840 has been an absolute mule with statistically insignificant returns for its entire lifespan in every incarnation.
You can argue this or that way for a handful of products, but you basically never go wrong with an 840 for the 500GB size range.
olson
#10
The Samsung 840 Pro series is very good in my experience. I’m using eight of them in a pair of file servers (one for OS, three for caching), and four of them in a pair of workstations. They are crazy durable with the 256 GB model still working reliably after 1.5 PB of written data. That’s quite astonishing.
http://techreport.com/review/27062/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-only-two-remain-after-1-5pb
Note the non-Pro version started having sectors reallocated after 100 TB of writes in their tests. While this won’t affect most users it’s still worth pointing out that there is a significant difference between the Pro and non-Pro Samsung SSD products.