Best SSDs For The Money: August 2012 (Archive)

[serverbuilder]

The Samsung 850 EVO line comes with a 5 Year warranty and the price is starting to drop fast. The 850 EVO 250GB is now on sale for$119.99 free shipping at dealsaday.com and newegg.com

 

[aerossi]

I am confused as to why the latest and greatest from Samsung is being compared to the old Plextor model?! I bought a Plextor M6 Pro back in November 2014 and yet in Jan 2015 you're still comparing to their old line? Yeah the article is the best SDD for the $$$, but SSDs are all about increasing performance, its better to buy a smaller faster SSD then a cheaper, larger, slower one. And to be honest the M6pro was not particularly expensive.

 

[aerossi]

edit: oops i see the M6Pro now, dont know why i missed it the first time looking through the results.

 

[aerossi]

Ah, i see. the M6 pro is indeed missing from the first chart for some reason.

 

[aerossi]

Ah, 128GB drives.... me so smurt.... I wish there was a way to edit comments......

 

[abbadon_34]

A large category is being ignored, the value segment of 120/128 GB drives for $50-60. OCZ ARC , Kingston V300, Sandisk, PNY etc... Epitomizes the mantra "any SSD is better than a HDD". Not the fastest or most expensive, but good solid SSD with plenty of room for a cheap boot drive or scratch drive, for $50 ! Just because Samsung doesn't have a drive for $50 doesn't mean the rest should be ignored.

 

[abukwaik]

WOW ... I get excited to have Samsung 850 EVO!

 

[st_ranger]

"WE'RE sticking to MY guns and keeping the MX100 as MY top 256GB and 512GB budget picks for this month."

Royal WE? ;-)
An editor/proofreader is needed.

 

[Ning3n]

I am still asking, where's the M.2 drives? They don't exist? You don't review them? I've asked before an nobody will answer - is there any performance difference between (just to take an example that's seemingly the same drive and in multiple form factors) a Crucial 550 512MB M.2 card (on the MB) and just installing a Crucial 550 512MB SATA3 6GB/s SSD as boot drive. Thanksany for the monthly updates for these basic components. I'd just like to know if there are benefits to going for a M.2 SSD (or a mSATA or PCIe card SSD) for my next build.

M-SATA drives are a different form factor than what is being considered in the article. Hence the "Top Values In SATA SSDs".

 

[JJean Ouellette]

I bought a Samsung SSD 850 PRO that stopped functioning after less than two months and I have received less than stellar after sales service - their turn around time to replace it is not acceptable - I have been without use of my main computer for over a week and still don't know when they will ship the replacement SSD and it's any ones guess how long it will take for it to be delivered - I will never ever buy a Samsung product of any kind!

 

[Carmenlna]

what`s about OWC SSD memories?

 

[Madrox7]

Does Toms use the wrong benchmark to see what is best? I mean, averag read/write or max, does it only tell a not so important story?
Would better see PCmark results, you know, how the SSD performs in real life. As i never am busy 24/7 with copy/paste and reading/writing files solely.

 

[Jakestatefarm]

Is toms hardware owned by Amazon? Why all this "On Amazon" pricing crap? It isn't even right.

 

[PaulBags]

I run an all Mac office, and have put SSDs in all our iMacs. For whatever it is worth, the Samsung SSDs have all come in with lower than advertised performance, and thermal issues. The Crucials have all worked perfectly. I have no idea why, but it would seem that if you are upgrading a Mac, they don't play as well with the Sumsung drives. Probably the ghost of Steve Jobs or something.

You can upgrade macs now? 😛

 

[PaintedTurtle]

That is odd, as the only OEM SSDs that I have seen have been Samsungs. However, it is a small sample set. So I wouldn't put much more in it other than that Apple has used them as an OEM. And they may have custom firmware or be otherwise different from the ones that we buy.

Additionally, when I talked to Samsung, they recommended against using their own drives due to lack of Apple TRIM support. I was sort of surprised that they didn't recommend some of the third party TRIM enabling products.

If any Windows people are reading this, you can remember this as yet another Apple tax, and a reason to not switch without considering the implications.

 

[KingSwift]

Not ONE mention of INTEL? Doesn't seem like a reliable source to me.