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| 1435306 | 2017-05-15 00:43:00 | Looking for a 250GB ~ 500GB SSD. Would prefer: Samsung , Intel or Crucial. What about WD blue? Your recommendations, please. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1435307 | 2017-05-15 00:58:00 | Boot drive or data drive? Honestly it doesn't make much difference for most home use which one you go with, any of the 4 you mentioned would be a good choice. Shop by price and warranty. I personally have used a Samsung 850 Evo 512GB and a Crucial MX100 512GB for the last 18 months or so as a C: & D: drive in my Gaming PC. The Samsung is marginally better but not in any noticeable way and their software is a little nicer. My personal choice would be the Samsung by a hair. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1435308 | 2017-05-15 01:01:00 | I would go Samsung EVO 850 as well, just for the 5 year warranty. We've had compatibility issues in the past with Intel so we stay away from them now, unless it is the m.2 version. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1435309 | 2017-05-15 01:09:00 | Looking for a 250GB ~ 500GB SSD. Would prefer: Samsung , Intel or Crucial. What about WD blue? Your recommendations, please. Buy the Brand with a longer history of making the more reliable SSD's ... Samsung, Intel |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1435310 | 2017-05-15 01:16:00 | For OS. Was using a Samsung evo 840 and it died recently just before the warranty. Since they don't have the same model for replacement, they offered to give me a credit and I accepted. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1435311 | 2017-05-15 01:29:00 | Yep, as said - either Evo 850 or Crucial MX300. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1435312 | 2017-05-15 01:50:00 | Yep, as said - either Evo 850 or Crucial MX300. I've been running the evo 850 500gb for about 9 months now. Works well. But I would like to look at a 120-250 GB m.2 based PCI Express - for extra speed for boot drive. |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 1435313 | 2017-05-15 02:54:00 | Bear in mind the law of diminishing returns kicks in once you have ANY SSD. When you go from a standard hard drive to an SSD there's a large difference in load times and program launch times etc and it can be very noticeable. You might go from a boot time of a minute or more down to 20-30 seconds or even less. Thing is a large portion of the boot time is now the BIOS initiating and finding the boot device and starting the boot procedure. If you upgrade from a SATA SSD to an NVME (PCI-E) SSD even though on paper it could be 4 times faster in practice you'd be lucky to knock more than a second or two off the boot times and the difference is going to be a lot less pronounced in general usage. That said I currently have an M.2 850 evo and as great as it is next time round will be going for something faster. Just because I can. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1435314 | 2017-05-15 03:12:00 | Thank you guys. Will get the Samsung 850 EVO MZ-75E500BW 500GB tomorrow. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1435315 | 2017-05-15 03:34:00 | I've been running the evo 850 500gb for about 9 months now. Works well. But I would like to look at a 120-250 GB m.2 based PCI Express - for extra speed for boot drive. For M.2 NVMe either a Samsung 960 Evo or Intel 600p if you can find one. Does make a big difference. :2cents: |
wratterus (105) | ||
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