Which SSD is better for me?

[soldier5637]

Hey there, so heres my question. Im not a complete stranger to SSDs having an 850 Evo and a Silicon Power SSD in my tower, but I have just got a new lenovo notebook with a painfully slow 5400 RPM drive. I need around 500 GB and Its basically between the Sandisk X300 & Adata SP550 series'. I have actually already ordered the X300 but could return it if itd be worth it. The TLC of the Adata turned me off of it so hence my X300 choice but after reading some more I'm not so sure.
Appreciate any help and thanks in advanced.

 

[geofelt]

I like the Samsung evo.
They offer a free ssd migration tool that will move your 54oorpm drive to one of their ssd's.
In practice, all modern ssd drives perform equally, so no difference there.
Samsung, makes their own nand chip so they can integrate the parts better.
The evidence is in the 5 year warranty for Samsung vs. 3 years for the other two.

 

[soldier5637]

I get that samsung is good, I have one like I said. But samsung is out of the question for the price here. So its those two.

 

[BadActor]

If it were an older laptop, i would probably just get whatever was cheapest. The slowest SSD is going to be faster than the 5400 rpm HDD. NewEgg had the Mushkin ECO2 on sale today for $119.99. It's MLC and only has a three year warranty, but the price per gig is hard to beat.

 

[soldier5637]

The Adata was $159, the Sandisk is $180. The Adata was 480 Gb, the Sandisk is 512 Gb. Im in Canada so I dont think the Mushkin was on sale here or I'd have seen it. Its a new laptop, maybe two weeks old. I just cant seem to stand the speed of an HDD any more after using my tower with two SSDs and a SSHD. I want to be able to whip it out in class and for it to be on in seconds more or less so I can catch that fleeting note on the board or so I can upload to Light room and photo shop as fast as possible. I also have steam on there so I'd like faster game load times. Just hoping that the extra twenty something dollars wasnt forked out for a worse SSD than the cheaper one.