Solved! What are top 10 best companies for SSDs?

[terryvalencia]

I'm asking top 10 because most of them aren't going to be having official dealers in my country.
Here're my needs:

Internal SSD
2.5 inch SATA
480/500/512 GB or 960/1000/1024 GB of storage

I need great products company in this case.

I read this article by tomsguide but I could not decide based on that.

 

[USAFRet]

I'm asking top 10 because most of them aren't going to be having official dealers in my country.

Lets do this the other way around...

What drives are available in your market?
Size/make/model

We can maybe recommend one from those.

 

[terryvalencia]

Lets do this the other way around...

What drives are available in your market?
Size/make/model

We can maybe recommend one from those.

I'm not sure because the online and offline market is disconnected. And sites are cluttered. There are like 1000 different sites probably in such a small country. There's nobody like "big boy amazon" here.

As I said offline market is disconnected. So, they can contain lots of brands that aren't available in online.

There're barely any official distributors. They'll try extorting money because there are a few of them(can count in 1 finger for many brands).

 

[USAFRet]

Well, there aren't a "Top Ten".

More like "Top 3-4"

Samsung, Crucial, WD, maybe SanDisk.

Anything else would have to be looked at on a case by case basis.
But I probably wouldn't buy one.
Some of them, I wouldn't use if I got it for free.

 

[terryvalencia]

Well, there aren't a "Top Ten".

More like "Top 3-4"

Samsung, Crucial, WD, maybe SanDisk.

Anything else would have to be looked at on a case by case basis.
But I probably wouldn't buy one.
Some of them, I wouldn't use if I got it for free.

they say WD and Sandisk merged in 2016. Are they different now?

 

[COLGeek]

Well, there aren't a "Top Ten".

More like "Top 3-4"

Samsung, Crucial, WD, maybe SanDisk.

Anything else would have to be looked at on a case by case basis.
But I probably wouldn't buy one.
Some of them, I wouldn't use if I got it for free.

I would recommend sliding Corsair into #3. But I agree otherwise, many I wouldn't use if free.

 

[terryvalencia]

Oh great thanks everyone. I've now collected around 30 different products. What's the best way to select one logically from this(for me, my price, my usage etc)? Any excel formula for optimization? And how trustable are the specs? The amazon reviews can be either too positive or too negative, so seeing them just confuses.
Any way?
I'm going with crucial mx500 atm. But I want to be open. I'm aware that most products will do a good job for me. Do you think I really need 500/500 R/W speed? What's the advantage of that in learning web development?

 

[USAFRet]

What are these 30 deices?

The Crucial MX500 would be at or near the top of the list.

500/500 read/write is standard SATA III performance.
Yes, you want that, because any SATA drive that advertises less is probably a junky drive you don't want anyway.

 

[terryvalencia]

What are these 30 deices?

The Crucial MX500 would be at or near the top of the list.

500/500 read/write is standard SATA III performance.
Yes, you want that, because any SATA drive that advertises less is probably a junky drive you don't want anyway.

What are the factors that you'd consider for an SSD to be great? I'm collecting R/W speed, Actual R/W speed, TBW value, DRAM or not?, TLC or not, Years of warranty=?, etc.
What do you think are important otherwise?

 

[USAFRet]

What are the factors that you'd consider for an SSD to be great? I'm collecting R/W speed, Actual R/W speed, TBW value, DRAM or not?, TLC or not, Years of warranty=?, etc.
What do you think are important otherwise?

Reliability
Company reputation
3rd party reviews
Warranty procedures
DRAM, generally Yes. But not a real requirement.

TBW is mostly irrelevant. In average consumer use, you'll never get near that number. Not even 20%.

Speed, within certain classes, is mostly the same. Good quality SATA III drives are all about the same.
Within the PCIe generations, also the same.
But.....most people can't really tell.
The jump from spinning HDD to solid state was guge.
The difference between the various flavors of SSD...not so huge.

View: https/www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YoRKQy-UO4

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View: https/www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ9LyNXpsOo

 

[terryvalencia]

What's your way to measure reliability? Warranty period?

 

[USAFRet]

What's your way to measure reliability? Warranty period?

3rd party info and reviews.

For instance, one of my drives a couple years ago.

960GB SanDisk. Died suddenly. Zero warning.
Bought in 2015, died in 2018. 33 days past the 3 year warranty.

I knew it was past, they knew it was past....they gave me a new one anyway.
The number of companies that might do this is a very short list.

 

[logandavid]

1. Intel.
2. Western Digital
3. Kingston
4. ADATA
5. Seagate
6. Corsair
7. Sabrent
8. Plextor
9. Samsung
10. Crucial