Samsung ssd or Kingston ssd?

[rohanjadhav]

Which ssd should I buy? Samsung 840 evo 120gb ssd or a kingston 120gb ssd? Which one is better and why?

 

[Paul NZ]

I would say Samsung, I've got the Evo here, but the 250 GB.

Never used Kingston. But 120 GB will have lower cache so it can still be slow

 

[Novuake]

Which exact Kingston model?

Crucial MX100 is currently the best value for money SSD at the moment.

 

[Cons29]

yup, +1 to the mx100, bang for the buck. though samsung is also a fan favorite.
speaking of speed... personally i don't seek the fastest ssd, they tend to be expensive (ssd's are expensive enough as it is) and the difference is barely noticeable in everyday use, at least for me.
and even a slower (relatively speaking) ssd is still faster than mechanical drives

 

[Palorim12]

Which exact Kingston model?

Crucial MX100 is currently the best value for money SSD at the moment.

The price difference between the EVO and MX100 is minimal.

See my comparison below.

Comparing the EVO 500GB and the MX100 512GB:

1. The Evo has higher IOPS than the MX100 [98,000/90,000 IOPS vs. 90,000/85,000] (BTW, took forever to find the MX100's RANDOM numbers, its not listed on Crucial or Amazon.)

2. The Evo uses parts made in house by Samsung, and of good quality. [1x nm Samsung Toggle DDR 2.0 3-Bit MLC NAND
Flash Memory (400Mbps)]. Crucial's MX100 uses a third party controller by Marvell (one of the worst controller companies I've ever dealt with when it comes to SATA controllers and drivers) and a third party nand [Marvell 88SS9189 with Micron cistom FW and Micron 16nm MLC Nand]

3. Warranties on both are for 3 years

4. TBW on both are around 70TBW

5. EVO comes with in house made optimization program that can benchmark, show SMART data, update FW, enable RAPID mode, Manually run TRIM in Windows XP and VISTA since they don't have TRIM natively and they have their own cloning program (Samsung Magician and Samsung Data Migration). MX100 has Acronis TruImage...and that's it.

Evo beats out mx100:

http://ssdboss.com/ssds/Samsung-840-EVO-vs-Crucial-MX100

http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Samsung-840-Evo-250GB-vs-Crucial-MX100-256GB/1594vs2317

http://techreport.com/review/26532/crucial-mx100-solid-state-drive-reviewed/2

 

[Novuake]

True, but 15$ is significant on a 72/87$ (120/128GB) component, dont you think?
The EVO is consistently 10-20% more expensive, and it wasn't always this way.

Not to mention the acutal performance difference you will never be able to tell unless you run benchmark.

 

[Palorim12]

personally, i like the Samsungs over the Crucial, especially after i found out the Crucials use a Marvell controller ( i abhor Marvell). Also the Magician and updated RAPID mode are pretty sweet too.

 

[sadams04]

Just HAVING an SSD is the important part. Good conversation here about the most commonly recommended SSDs... While I am a huge Samsung fan and do prefer their controller, the very very low failure rate of the Crucial drives is a big deal to me. In the "real world" (outside of benchmarks) you won't be able to tell the difference between the two. Throw a dart, check rebates, drink a beer... don't overthink this decision.

 

[Palorim12]

I think we all agree though to stay away from the Kingston, amirite? lol

 

[sadams04]

I think we all agree though to stay away from the Kingston, amirite? lol

95% of the time I would agree. If there was a large rebate I would grab one. That price would have to be much lower than the EVO / MX100 to justify, but all-in-all the SandForce controllers aren't horrible. ...just not worth buying when there are two very good options at the same price range. Even if we were to take three comparable systems with the difference being these three SSDs, there would be very little difference seen by the user (going to back to just having an SSD is the important part).

 

[Palorim12]

I think we all agree though to stay away from the Kingston, amirite? lol

95% of the time I would agree. If there was a large rebate I would grab one. That price would have to be much lower than the EVO / MX100 to justify, but all-in-all the SandForce controllers aren't horrible. ...just not worth buying when there are two very good options at the same price range. Even if we were to take three comparable systems with the difference being these three SSDs, there would be very little difference seen by the user (going to back to just having an SSD is the important part).

I was mostly poking fun about that issue that Kingston had recently where they switched controllers on one of their units and ppl started noticing that there was a significant speed difference between units manufactured after a certain date and Kingston was like "Whaaaaaa? Us? Never?!...............................Our Bad....."

 

[Novuake]

I was mostly poking fun about that issue that Kingston had recently where they switched controllers on one of their units and ppl started noticing that there was a significant speed difference between units manufactured after a certain date and Kingston was like "Whaaaaaa? Us? Never?!...............................Our Bad....."

Not the first time they have done it either, they have swapped NAND as well to save cost, A LOT of drives out there from them that have lower writes than advertised.

 

[james_44]

I think we all agree though to stay away from the Kingston, amirite? lol

95% of the time I would agree. If there was a large rebate I would grab one. That price would have to be much lower than the EVO / MX100 to justify, but all-in-all the SandForce controllers aren't horrible. ...just not worth buying when there are two very good options at the same price range. Even if we were to take three comparable systems with the difference being these three SSDs, there would be very little difference seen by the user (going to back to just having an SSD is the important part).

Generalising in this case might not be right imo asit may be a little misguiding. Sandforce supplies the controllers to various OEMs and the way in which the controller is implemented is entirely upto the manufacturer. Eg. Intel 530 has implemented the SF controller better than most.