SSD Upgrade

[rush_tech]

I'm going to upgrade my 120Gb SSD (OS drive) in my home computer, the thing is which one to get? I'm going to go for a 250Gb, if you had to buy one today which one would you get? Lets leave budget out of it. I'm going round in circles looking on the web, reading reviews.

[Danp]

I would buy the Samsung Evo drive.

 

We have been fitting 120gb Sandisk drives in machines here, but that is because they are about the £45 mark.

[synaesthesia]

Samsung all the way. I'd personally go for a Pro 240gb but the Evo would more than suffice typical users.

[3s-gtech]

850 EVO 250GB would be my personal choice. We've used Crucial, Kingston, Sandisk and Samsung at work. All have done well really - Crucials have had a few failures under warranty, Kingston pulled that nasty bait-and-switch with the V300, and the Sandisks have been solid. We now only buy Samsungs - they're currently replacing our older 64GB drives and are performing well. Edited June 9, 2015 by 3s-gtech

[sted]

until my latest one ive used crucials with no issue put a 500gb evo 850 in now as id filled the 240 (or near as)

[Arthur]

Samsung 850 EVO or 850 PRO.

 

www.anandtech.com/show/8260/best-ssds-july-2014

[truebluesteve]

We have used the both the Samsung Evo's and the Kingston V300's and they are both great. There has been an issue with the Evo's in the past where we've had to apply firmware updates but this has been sorted now. I'm not sure there's much to choose between them to be honest, and it may come down to price in the end. Go for the 250GB if you can afford it

[rush_tech]

Cheers for the replies guys. I'm umming and arring weather to go for a budget drive maybe a crucial or go for a Samsung 850 PRO

[sonofsanta]

Samsung 850 EVO is all the SSD you ever need. If you needed the extra performance of the 850 Pro, you'd already know it and probably wouldn't ask. No point in spending the extra, tbh.

 

The Crucial BX100 is also good, but unless it's on offer and £10+ cheaper than the Samsung, I'd go with the 850 EVO.

[rush_tech]

Samsung 850 EVO is all the SSD you ever need. If you needed the extra performance of the 850 Pro, you'd already know it and probably wouldn't ask. No point in spending the extra, tbh.

 

The Crucial BX100 is also good, but unless it's on offer and £10+ cheaper than the Samsung, I'd go with the 850 EVO.

 

I'll take a look at the EVO

[notalot]

Cheers for the replies guys. I'm umming and arring weather to go for a budget drive maybe a crucial or go for a Samsung 850 PRO

 

Don't go cheep with an SSD you will regret it as it will never last the test of time.

 

The Samsung Evo range has been extremely reliable over the last few years, and as the others have said the 850 EVO is simply fantastic.

 

There was a Stress test for the several SSD's I cant remember where it is right now but last time I checked the Samsung 840 pro had lasted 1.5 Petabytes of writes over a year and was still going strong with another SSD that I cant remember.

[JoeBloggs]

As others have said, Samsung 850 EVO

[JRowley]

Going to be buying a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB myself shortly, just seeing if the price will fall any lower before W10 launches.

[matt40k]

Just remember if your going to buy a Samsung SSD, you're limited to Windows, they've k-boshed the Linux implementation of TRIM in the latest fireware basically saying it can do something it can't - unless erasing random data is your goal - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fstrim/+bug/1449005

[rush_tech]

Going to be buying a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB myself shortly, just seeing if the price will fall any lower before W10 launches.

 

Yes that my plan to upgrade before W10

[sonofsanta]

There was a Stress test for the several SSD's I cant remember where it is right now but last time I checked the Samsung 840 pro had lasted 1.5 Petabytes of writes over a year and was still going strong with another SSD that I cant remember.

 

The SSD Endurance Experiment: They're all dead - The Tech Report - Page 1

 

In brief: SSDs all last a lot longer than they're rated for.

[Arthur]

Just remember if your going to buy a Samsung SSD, you're limited to Windows, they've k-boshed the Linux implementation of TRIM in the latest firmware basically saying it can do something it can't - unless erasing random data is your goal

I wouldn't worry about that too much. The Linux kernel includes many workarounds for drives with dodgy firmware (as you can see from the screenshot below). It won't be a problem for much longer. Crucial/Micron SSDs do not handle queued TRIM commands well either and IIRC, the 850 EVO and 840 Pro are unaffected.

 

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/drivers/ata/libata-core.c?h=linux-4.0.y&id=6fc4d97a4987c5d247655a157a9377996626221a#n4205

 

http://vgy.me/sc7GFz.png

Edited June 9, 2015 by Arthur

[rush_tech]

The deed is done! I went for the Samsung 850 EVO 250Gb

[ass17]

The deed is done! I went for the Samsung 850 EVO 250Gb

 

Good choice [emoji106]🏻

[mthomas08]

Got a Kingston one at home, 120GB and only my main bits get stored on it, anything else on USB Drive.

 

Don't think I've ever needed anything bigger for that - works a treat.

[matt40k]

Yer, works laptop is 120GB and that's plenty big, still if your gaming then it doesn't take long to fill when games are over 40gb each and really games need to be on SSDs.

[Dos_Box]

We've put 850 Pro's in our machines here at EduGeek. They also have the advantage of coming with a 10 year warranty

Zero complaints so far

We had tried Kingston SSD's but both failed after not very long.