[SOLVED] Help me choose between Kingston Q500 vs WD Green vs Crucial BX500.

[samurai7222]

So I only have these 3 options in my area. I just want a 240GB one to install windows and maybe some games which take a long time to load. So which one will be better?

 

[SkyNetRising]

All of those are more or less bad and not recommended.
Can you get Crucial MX500 ?

 

[samurai7222]

Can you get Crucial MX500 ?

Its like double the price in my area.

Edit: Also they won't deliver that in my area so yeah.

 

[Krotow]

Both WD Green and Crucial BX500 as any DRAM-less and power capacitor-less SSD are equally bad. Adata and Kingston are out of question if you don't mind playing game about possibility to lose your data in next 2 weeks due to failed drive. Look to Crucial MX500, Patriot P210, Intenso High/Top or slightly used Samsung Evo 850/860.

 

[Maxxify]

BX500 is the best of the three.

 

[samurai7222]

Both WD Green and Crucial BX500 as any DRAM-less and power capacitor-less SSD are equally bad. Adata and Kingston are out of question if you don't mind playing game about possibility to lose your data in next 2 weeks due to failed drive. Look to Crucial MX500, Patriot P210, Intenso High/Top or slightly used Samsung Evo 850/860.

What about WD Blue?

 

[Krotow]

What about WD Blue?

WD Blue SATA model aka SanDisk X400 (exactly the same drive AFAIK, WD own Sandisk now) have DRAM cache - it is fine.

UPDATE: Turned out that new WD Blue batches will have only 10-12 GB SLC cache and the rest will be slow memory. Same con which revealed started to happen with Crucial NVMe SSDs in last month. If you want to buy WD Blue, do it now.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-blue-sn550-ssd-performance-cut-in-half-slc-runs-out