[SOLVED] Which SSD to buy?

[ivanoskyhp]

Hello everyone, I've decided to buy an SSD to revitalize my laptop. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 15 7559 and it's currently using a 1TB Seagate SSHD, it also has an m.2 slot so I'll be adding the SSD as a boot drive and not replacing the mechanical drive.
I've narrowed it to the following 3 options: WD Green 240GB m.2 SSD, Kingston A400 240GB m.2 SSD and the Crucial MX500 250GB m.2 SSD.
I've read a few reviews and my general impressions are that the Crucial one is the best, followed by the Kingston and the WD Green is the worst. My main issues is I have also read a lot of reliability issues with the Kingston A400 and the Crucial is sold by a relative unknown store in my country of residence, Brazil.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable about SSDs, so I would like to ask:
Which one of these options should I buy?
Are there other options with similar pricing that I could find in Brazil?
The WD Green being the slowest, will I notice any impact in daily usage as a boot drive?
Are the Kingston A400 reliability issues widespread or have they been fixed in newer revisions?
Thanks in advance to everyone that answers.

PS: Any other option must be SATA 3, since my laptop doesn't support NVMe.

Prices:
WD Green: ~$48
Kingston A400: ~$53
Crucial MX500: ~$59

Links:
WD Green: https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-green-sata-ssd
Kingston A400: https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/a400-solid-state-drive
Crucial MX500: https://www.crucial.com/ssd/mx500/ct250mx500ssd4

 

[jimmysmitty]

I would go for Crucial over the others. WD Green is typically their lower end range and I have never been a major fan on Kingston. Crucial is Microns retail brand and Micron is one of the best NAND manufactures, they used to work with Intel on developing NAND technologies.

 

[ivanoskyhp]

I would go for Crucial over the others. WD Green is typically their lower end range and I have never been a major fan on Kingston. Crucial is Microns retail brand and Micron is one of the best NAND manufactures, they used to work with Intel on developing NAND technologies.

Any reason why you're not a fan of Kingston? Anything I should be aware of? I'm currently searching for a reputable source to buy the Crucial from, if I find one I'll buy it. If I can't, what would your second choice be?

 

[USAFRet]

Of those 3, there is no 'second choice'.
MX500 only.

WD Green is quite possibly the worst performer from a major brand.

Kingston...early on the in SSD game they pulled some shenanigans with reviews and parts swapping. Additionally, my personal Kingston (HyperX 3k 128GB) has slowed down considerably, compared to the other SSD's I have.

 

[jimmysmitty]

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Any reason why you're not a fan of Kingston? Anything I should be aware of? I'm currently searching for a reputable source to buy the Crucial from, if I find one I'll buy it. If I can't, what would your second choice be?

Kingston has always been a lower end brand, cheaper. They are good for people who just have to pay the least in products but I have just never had a good experience with their products.

If you are going for second I would still stay away from the others and search for something else. There are plenty of good ones to go for such as Corsair, Samsung, Intel etc that should be able to price near them. The Samsung Evo 860 is $69 bucks on Newegg right now, I switch to Brazil to make sure its available, and even the MX500 shows up on there for $50 bucks. The Evo would be one of the best in the market as shown by its slightly higher price.

https://www.newegg.com/global/br-en/crucial-mx500-250gb/p/N82E16820156172

https://www.newegg.com/global/br-en/samsung-860-evo-series-250gb/p/N82E16820147668

 

[mdd1963]

MX500 is awesome....! (Last time I checked, the 500 GB version was only $65 or so on Amazon...) I've used several MX500 variants (both 500GB and 1 TB versions in laptop and desktop upgrades to save a few bucks over the cost of an 860EVO, never an issue; also, Crucial entitles you to use free WD/Crucial version of basic Acronis True Image

 

[jimmysmitty]

MX500 is awesome....! (Last time I checked, the 500 GB version was only $65 or so on Amazon...) I've used several MX500 variants (both 500GB and 1 TB versions in laptop and desktop upgrades to save a few bucks over the cost of an 860EVO, never an issue; also, Crucial entitles you to use free WD/Crucial version of basic Acronis True Image

Most SSDs provide this. Samsung has their own version as well.

 

[USAFRet]

For cloning/imaging/migration/backups...Macrium Reflect.
Works with any drive.

 

[ivanoskyhp]

Kingston has always been a lower end brand, cheaper. They are good for people who just have to pay the least in products but I have just never had a good experience with their products.

If you are going for second I would still stay away from the others and search for something else. There are plenty of good ones to go for such as Corsair, Samsung, Intel etc that should be able to price near them. The Samsung Evo 860 is $69 bucks on Newegg right now, I switch to Brazil to make sure its available, and even the MX500 shows up on there for $50 bucks. The Evo would be one of the best in the market as shown by its slightly higher price.

https://www.newegg.com/global/br-en/crucial-mx500-250gb/p/N82E16820156172

https://www.newegg.com/global/br-en/samsung-860-evo-series-250gb/p/N82E16820147668

Unfortunately I can't buy from Newegg because it is shipped from the US. Brazil has very high import tax, it's around 80% IIRC, therefore when adding the shipping/import costs it jumps from $50 to $93. Either way, I found the Crucial MX500 from another local source and will buy it. Thanks to everyone again for answering.