Which SSD do you recommend?

[rivas]

Hi

Which SSD do you recommend?

Samsung 850 EVO 250GB

WD Blue SSD 250GB

 

[JBURNS489]

Samsung 100%

 

[captaincharisma]

samsung, there is not much out there about WD blue SSD drives yet

 

[why_wolf]

Samsung. The WD blues are low tier, Samsung is top tier.

 

[Sakkura]

The WD Blue SSD is internally identical to the Sandisk X400, which is a very good SSD. Nearly on par with the Samsung 850 Evo.

It really depends on pricing. If the WD Blue is significantly cheaper than the 850 Evo (and no more expensive than the X400), it's a good buy.

 

[Sakkura]

Samsung. The WD blues are low tier, Samsung is top tier.

>10K random read IOPS at QD1 is not low tier.

 

[JBURNS489]

He may have meant that any BLUE WD drive is the lowest tier for their drives. Gold is best, followed by purple, then red, then black and finally blue.

 

[captaincharisma]

He may have meant that any BLUE WD drive is the lowest tier for their drives. Gold is best, followed by purple, then red, then black and finally blue.

unless they thought the OP was trying to find a mechanical HDD and not an SSD that would make sense

 

[mapkos13]

+3 Samsung since I own 3 of them!

 

[dextermat]

Spend extra money on the samsung one.
Better quality,
WD warranty is misleading (While they state 3 years warranty, but also limited to a terabytes written. )
source

 

[Sakkura]

Spend extra money on the samsung one.
Better quality,
WD warranty is misleading (While they state 3 years warranty, but also limited to a terabytes written. )
source

Uh... all SSD warranties are also subject to a write limit. For the 250GB Samsung 850 Evo, that limit is 75TB. For the 250GB WD Blue, the limit is 100TB. If anyone's dishonest there it's Samsung, since that means they're figuring a maximum of 41GB of writes per day (for that 75TB to stretch across the 5 years of warranty coverage), while WD is allowing for up to 91GB of writes per day.

 

[JBURNS489]

I have never used a WD SSD, so it's tough to speak on direct comparisons for me. I still say Samsung because I have personally seen 1 blue HDD from WD go bad within 3 months, another within 6months, and another within a year. In 1 year I saw 3 WD Blue HDD failures. RMA wouldn't work on any of them, because 2 were bought as a prebuilt system, and 1 was bought from a 3rd party vendor that repackaged it and sold it as new. During that time, I have had a Samsung SSD and samsung external HD and there are 0 problems for almost 2 years now. I stay away from Western Digital products now

 

[Sakkura]

HDDs are very different from SSDs though, and the WD Blue is just a rebadged Sandisk X400. Sandisk has been making good SSDs for ages.

On the other hand the 850 Evo does have a longer warranty period, and I haven't experienced the RMA process of either brand so maybe WD really is crap there.