It's time to upgrade my SSD capacity to a 500GB since the prices have settled from the last time I bought an SSD. Upgrading from an OCZ Vertex4 120GB.
The options are:
Wanted to get the forums opinion before I commit. These are all the 500GB options
@thecaveman could i get your take on these?
Samsung hands down.
what would your second option be? A part of me wants to try a different brand even though i know deep down that it's not going to be better.
I also would choose Samsung pretty easily with no data to back it up, My first(current) SSD was the 840 evo 250 capacity, it's served me well almost 2 years now.
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Samsung vs. OCZ
'FIGHT'
Samsung: 'Hadoken' =))) ((= Kameha ...OCZ
^_^;
(I did see a samsung SSD 500gb advertised on Amazon for $139 USD last week, is that a good price? I thought it was)
Haha that was perfect!
Yea you're right it dropped down to 135 according to camelizer. I'd definitely snag it at that price.
Price trend
probably the 750's series, which is much slower compared to your normal SSD's (edit to say 2D Nand vs 3D Nand tech)
nah it was the 850.
musikin reactor. cheaper per gig then the 850 and a little bit faster.
the 850 evo for 139? damn that sounds pretty good. and to clarify my earlier comment i was trying to suggest staying away from the 750 series variants.
Live dangerously and RAID0 2 250GB's Samsung SSD's...
Not much dangerous about that. You'd have to have VERY bad luck to have an 850 go wrong.
this.
Mushkin and crucial are the only other companies I trust when it comes to storage.
I have the PNY in 120gb as my boot ssd. It replaced my dead ocz vertex 2 about 6 or so months ago. Seems to run perfectly fine and fast. It seems to be on par with my Samsung 850 evo SSD which runs my apps and games.
Wait, what? Your Vertex2 lasted this long?
You really won the NAND lottery with that one, Practically all Vertex2s bricked themselves within the first year.
I've used two OCZ Vector 150s for a while. Never died, never had problems, and ran at their rated speeds. Good warranty too.
I've been using an 840 Evo 250GB for two years and an 850 Evo 500GB for one year and they're both working solid and not slowing down even with multiple TBs of writes on them. The advice for my experience is get a Samsung SSD.
I own several 850 EVOs. They are great. And my first choice.
The Sandisk Ultra II is my 2nd choice
You're on your own if you go with a budget SSD.
Agreed :P
Yeah, it lasted until a windows 10 patch which re-enabled sleep mode. After one sleep it just bricked it.
I still have one of my original vertex 60gb ssd's in my wifes computer still running strong!