SSD: HyperX Fury 120GB vs SanDisk Ultra II 120GB

[krumov]

Can anyone help me decide which one to buy. The OS will be on it and maybe 1 game and a programming IDE (Visual Studio 2013/2015). I found in the Internet that both are generally the same, but maybe more important is which will last longer. Thanks in advance!

 

[superninja12]

the difference isn't noticeable at all, get the cheapest one .
if u want a difference notice get the samsung 850 evo. and even than the difference might be only 3s in booting up.

 

[rkzhao]

In theory, the Kingston could last longer since it's MLC NAND instead of TLC. In practice, it likely wouldn't matter.

 

[Dilligaf728]

So even though a solution has been chosen I figured I would post this for anyone else with the same quandary, I'm also currently choosing between the two and will likely go with the sandisk as a result of the two links I'm posting. The sandisk according to ssd.userbenchmark seems to have better overall performance across the board.

http://techreport.com/review/28935/kingston-hyperx-fury-and-sandisk-ultra-ii-ssds-reviewed

http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/SanDisk-Ultra-II-120GB-vs-HyperX-Fury-120GB/3486vs2586

 

[superninja12]

quality wise get either crucial or samsung but out of the 2 i would get sandisk one.

 

[FaFaFooey]

Did you purchase a Sandisk Ultra II? If so, How do you like it and any problems so far?

I just purchased the Ultra II 240g model which uses the same memory and marvel controller. the larger models use a different marvel controller.

I imagine my drive would be very similar to yours and I am very impressed with boot time and performance. I am very happy with this and am using it as my boot\OS drive with Win 7 pro x64.

The one thing that bothers me are the buyer reviews with this Sandisk line.

a lot of the reviews go something like this --"Was amazing until it died"

Reviews of suddenly died after 2 weeks, Suddenly died after 7 months.

I hate having this stuck it the back of my head.

The only advice i can give is keep frequent backups, as you should anyway.
I use Acronis 2014(which I used to clone my platter without any issues. Booted right up). Macrium Reflect should be just as useful. Minitool partion wizard is also a great free boot utility to resize, ect partition. It has more features than Acronis Disk Director and is free which is a plus

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html