High durability budget SSD

[Commander Matt]

I'm looking for a very durable SSD, but I'm on a budget.
Storage is not a concern; this drive will be used to edit videos off of. I've had issues with editing off my HDD, especially in things such as montages, where various locations of the video will need to be accessed quickly. Once editing is done and the video is rendered, the videos will be moved off the SSD.

Speed is not much concern either; as long as it can manage 200MB/s (real-world, not advertised) it will work.

Durability is needed because, well, most of the videos will be high quality, 60FPS, and high bitrate.

The most my budget allows is $80, but that stretches it some.

Thank you in advance!

 

[Retic3nt]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TGIVZTW/?tag=pcpapi-20
Is a pretty good drive hasn't died yet.

 

[1N07]

I would recommend Samsung 850 EVO

 

[Retic3nt]

As an aside a lot of ssd's top out at around 1 petabyte of read/write use (think pro level ssds) so honestly it comes down to a few factors.:

Are you on a professional level? If any real amount of money is riding on this then we need to forgo the consumer market and skip to pro level stuff.

Are we talking about 5-10min 60fps 1080p youtube videos or 4k surround sound for over an hour? Think of this as space required, for $80 you don't quite have the best of both quality and quantity of storage options it will be one or the other.

Depending on exact needs I would recommend:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KPZM9AY/?tag=pcpapi-20
(Kingston M.2 120gb real world R/W shouldn’t be a problem has power loss protection)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167224&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
(Intel Pro series 2.5” ssd incase m.2 is not an option +5 year warrenty)
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-128GB-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-7KE128BW/dp/B00LF10L02/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1448868792&sr=1-3&keywords=850pro
(Above budget but it’s a real pro level drive)

These three should do you/anyone perfectly fine for editing just be sure to do a burn in test as soon as you get them to insure they are not lemons.

 

[Commander Matt]

I would recommend Samsung 850 EVO

As an aside a lot of ssd's top out at around 1 petabyte of read/write use (think pro level ssds) so honestly it comes down to a few factors.:

Are you on a professional level? If any real amount of money is riding on this then we need to forgo the consumer market and skip to pro level stuff.

Are we talking about 5-10min 60fps 1080p youtube videos or 4k surround sound for over an hour? Think of this as space required, for $80 you don't quite have the best of both quality and quantity of storage options it will be one or the other.

Depending on exact needs I would recommend:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KPZM9AY/?tag=pcpapi-20
(Kingston M.2 120gb real world R/W shouldn’t be a problem has power loss protection)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167224&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
(Intel Pro series 2.5” ssd incase m.2 is not an option +5 year warrenty)
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-128GB-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-7KE128BW/dp/B00LF10L02/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1448868792&sr=1-3&keywords=850pro
(Above budget but it’s a real pro level drive)

These three should do you/anyone perfectly fine for editing just be sure to do a burn in test as soon as you get them to insure they are not lemons.

I'd say I'm consumer level.
The largest video I have to edit is 10.1 GB. It's 1080p, 30FPS, with a high bitrate (I can't say for sure what it was, but it was 1080p sufficient).
The maximum quality will be 1080p 60FPS. The length of the videos will probably be (max) around 1 hour unedited.

M.2 isn't an option, as my motherboard doesn't have an M.2 port. PCIe x1 is an option, but heat is a concern (it would be behind an R9 380).

I'm stuck between the Intel Pro 2500 and the Samsung 850 EVO (120GB each).
Which one more likely has more read/writes? (The only durability spec given is MTBF, isn't it?)

Edit: Multiquote didn't work. :c
Edit 2: I've heard that OCZ is a good-great SSD company, and came across this little guy. Slower than the other two, but more MTBF than the Intel one. The only apparent difference between the OCZ and the Samsung is that the OCZ uses MLC (and is slower and way cheaper), and the Samsung one uses "3-D Vertical."
The speeds also seem more... accurate. "475" for read, instead of some even/rounded off number.
Since I've heard good things about OCZ, and it's cheaper and seems more realistic, I'm leaning more towards the OCZ one.
Good idea or bad? If bad, why?

 

[Retic3nt]

The OCZ is nice, and actually didn't show up for me when I was looking last night so good find. Sucks you don't have m.2 compatibility they are nice. Honestly for the price that ssd will probably be the best bang for you buck. In fact looking at it I would go with the OCZ if I wasn't then I'd move on to the pro drive I linked above the other 2 are going to only be marginally better and I doubt real world noticeable (*dont quote me though).
Good luck on the OCZ.

 

[JaredDM]

Between the ones you mentioned go with the Samsung EVO, it uses Toshiba memory NANDS which will sustain more read/write cycles than the other ones.

 

[Commander Matt]

The OCZ is nice, and actually didn't show up for me when I was looking last night so good find. Sucks you don't have m.2 compatibility they are nice. Honestly for the price that ssd will probably be the best bang for you buck. In fact looking at it I would go with the OCZ if I wasn't then I'd move on to the pro drive I linked above the other 2 are going to only be marginally better and I doubt real world noticeable (*dont quote me though).
Good luck on the OCZ.

Thank you! Maybe when I have a larger budget I'll go for Intel or Samsung drives; currently it seems like you pay a bit for quality and a bit more for the names. Gotta save money for some other computer upgrades first, though.
The only M.2 motherboards I'm able to find are either less than what I'd like from a new mobo in other areas, or far more expensive and overkill for what I need/want. 🙁
Thanks again for your help!

Between the ones you mentioned go with the Samsung EVO, it uses Toshiba memory NANDS which will sustain more read/write cycles than the other ones.

OCZ is a Toshiba company, though, so they should have access to Toshiba memory if they wanted them.
A few less read/writes will be fine for how cheap it is; if it fails, it's cheap to replace.
Thank you, though!