The Best SSD Brands?

Personally we like using Crucial MX200/300 or Intel SSD's but I know a lot of people who like Samsung's which are great, but on the pricier side. What kind of SSD's do you use?

 

I'm using Samsung EVO SSD at home and we use Intel DC on our servers both work great and never had an issue since a while.

 

We are using Intel and Samsung SSDs for our Servers.

 

Samsung, OCZ, Crucial are the best.
I've had a OCZ SSD for years an years- while other parts have died and been replaced the OCZ keeps on going.

 

In our Server we have OCZ SSDs and they worked fine. I have had one Kingston 240GB go corrupt on me but it was probably damaged due to a power failure during writing live camera feed from security cameras.

 

I am sort of surprised with the use of OCZ's, I have heard a lot of people talk bad about them but maybe thats previous models.

 

Kingston all the way through. I didn't quite believe all the fuss, but when I washed (yes, in the waschmaschine) mine and it still worked - well ..

 

I personally use Samsung 850 Evo. They are very good and never get corrupted. The transfer speed is also very good. I am using the same since 4 years and i never came across with any kind of problem so go for Samsung 850 Evo

 

SeaGate. I have been using seagate brand for 5 years now.

 

I use Samsung EVO for personal use, and have good experience with both Samsung PRO SSDs and Intel SSDs in servers.

 

I tend to only use EVO Samsung love the brand long lasting.

 

There is currently a shortage of Intel SSDs. So unless you are willing to pay a premium price (nearly double what it was last year) or you want to go with a data center class SSD, you won't be buying Intel.

http://www.crn.com/news/data-center...ith-shipment-priority-on-data-center-ssds.htm

http://www.crn.com/news/storage/300...rtage-see-little-chance-of-relief-in-2017.htm

 

Samsung are generally the best.

 

For my Windows gaming PC and Ubuntu NAS server's boot/root drive, I use Sandisk Ultra II. It was the best performancerice balance I could afford at the time and I'm still sufficiently happy that I'm going to keep them as I upgrade my gaming computer to Ryzen.

If money were no object I'd use Samsung Evo. They consistently ace all the tests I see in reviews mags & websites, but they cost.

For my Ubuntu workstation and wife's Windows laptop, I use Patriot Torch. They're cheap without being bargain-bin and have been running reliably for two years or more. They don't get a lot of professional reviews, but the consumer reviews echo my experience of them being reliable workhorses. I do a lot of video transcoding and SD card image crunching (Raspberry Pi images, 8GB a pop) on the workstation, so at least one of them has really been given a very thorough workout throughout its life, and not one jot of data loss or fscking problems. I don't doubt that Sandisk and Samsung are a bit faster, but they can't possibly be any more reliable.

A few years ago I used an OCZ in my Ubuntu netbook. Within a couple of months it had roughly a 1-in-4 chance of freezing or failing to fully boot (although to be fair it never actually lost data). I know OCZ are a different company now, but still... never again.

For spare Linux laptops/netbooks, I now use Kingspec. They are absolute bargain-bin (no point spending more, they're second-hand laptops with SATA2) and their speed isn't going to feature in the top half of any comparison tests, but you know what? They're still waaaay faster than a hard disk and they have never once lost any data in two or three years of use, including some pretty rough handling at Raspberry Jams where they're reading and writing 4-8GB of SD images several times a day. Twenty quid for 32GB, thirty quid for 64GB and hey presto, you have a solid refurb for an old laptop with a big jump in performance. Yeah, I wouldn't store anything vital on them without a solid backup, I keep expecting them to let me down... but they haven't. Import them from China for absolute basement prices and just wait 3-4 weeks. (The design and colour choice is that special white-beige with silver labels, Commodore VIC=20, by the way; if you want to show off your PC's innards, this will NOT impress anyone.)

So, for me:
Performance - Samsung Evo if you can afford it, Sandisk Ultra II if you can't
Mid range - Patriot Torch
Low range - Kingspec. Yeah I'm as surprised as you.

Haven't tried an M2 or PCI SSD yet.

 

Besides the big names. A Kingston SSD can prove to be goo too.

 

I like Samsung and Intel is mainly what we order

 

Kingston is a good brand for me. i always use that or Corsair for my RAM!

 

I will rather buy the 20 TB Sata HDD launched by Seaget but waiting for prices to come down.