I want to upgrade some of my older machines with some new, high(er) capacity SSDs (SATA and nvme). I don’t need super high speeds, just something in the TB range in terms of storage.
Problem is, there’s so much garbage out there, I can’t really tell, which SSD is inexpensive and reliable and which is just utter garbage.
I thought about buying new, but last gen Samsung/WD SSDs.
Intenso and Fanxiang both seem to have been around for a few years, but reviews seem to be mixed.
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Inland, Sabrent, XPG and PNY are all relatively inexpensive and very solid options for NVMe.
I have a friend who’s in the computer repair business. He uses PNY drives because out of the hundreds he’s installed, he’s yet to see one come back with a faulty drive, unlike some of the other brands he’s tried like Kingston. He gets the base size and base speed drives as his customers tend not to use a lot of data.
I have two PHY drives that I installed in a server. They work just fine and I have no complaints
Just stick with known vendors, and find a good price. Make sure you have a solid warranty and backups, and you’ll be fine.
If you live by a Micro Center, their house brand is pretty good.
The closest one is about a trip over the Atlantic away.
Seems reasonable. I know a guy with a fishing boat (that’s a joke, I live no where near the ocean)
“honeyyyy, I figured out our vacation plans!”
You mean “cheap or reliable”. And even with the better brands it’s always the question not if but when a device will fail.
By that logic, nothing is reliable…? Because you could say that about literally anything
That’s in fact the point I was making, in this case about SSDs. Low prices don’t help with reliability as producers use the worse part of a production run for the cheaper brands (friend of mine works for a European based manufacturer of silicon chips, and he can tell stories about the finicky processes around that tiny stuff and how they try to make the most of it).
Honestly, that is the typical self-righteous stackoverflow response that is helping no one.
You know exactly what I mean, you know exactly how to treat the question, but you chose to play captain obvious of the second arrogance division and posted this.
Of course devices will fail at some point, what are you even trying to add here?
I commented on the title of your post - nobody with some knowledge in that field (as you claim to have) would phrase that question that way.
Be offended, I can’t change that - but pointing out the obvious may help others to not make the mistake of hoping that there’s cheap good.
There isn’t.
Oh, I’m terribly sorry that I didn’t use the exact wording that the semantic overlord required for his incantations.
Let’s recap, you only read the title, which by definition does not contain all the information, you wrote an extremely arrogant and absolutely not helpful comment, if challenged you answer with even more arrogance, and your only defense is nitpicky semantics, which even if taken at face value, do not change the value of your comment at all.
You are not helping anyone. No, not even others.
Your reading comprehension is a bit off - I didn’t write that I only read the title, I wrote that I commented on the title.
The rest of your rant is up to you.
See, again, nitpicky details, even though we both know exactly what was meant.
CALM DOWN!!!
Just kidding I don’t care I just though it would be fun to respond with a nonsensical comment
It’s exactly those kind of responses that makes me scared to ask questions when I need help in the Linux community…
It adds absolutely nothing to anything
Edit: I’ve got a WD Green and a Crucial NVMe drive in my current gaming rig and those have been solid
Don’t be scared. Just don’t fall for posts which try to get the impossible. It’s not that difficult.
Reliability’s kinda high on my priority-list.
Try Samsung.
Nowadays I can’t imagine using SATA for anything but archival storage ( get the fastest NVMe you can for your operating-system, and be stunned by how much quicker your machine is ).
Last time I was digging into stats, the reliability-rate for Samsung devices was much higher than that of Western Digital,
and the off-brands … often are a bit of a bad-joke, for reliability ( Adata & Kingston, I’m looking at you, and will never trust such scum again ).
just my experience/opinion, is all.
If you put a sata drives in raid they can be pretty fast
pretty sure the sn570/550 used to be a pretty good deal
iirc they don’t sell it much anymore, maybe the sn580 is still a good deal?
Crucial MX 500 & Samsung 870 Evo are reliable / good & “cheap” SATA SSDs. For NVMe there’s the WD Blue SN570 and the Kioxia Exceria G2 but keep in mind that they tend to have smaller storage sizes too and depending on your use case you might not really notice a performance difference between SATA and NVMe anyway. Personally, I stay away from all native Chinese products. They tend to have terrible quality and fall apart quickly. I’m sure there’s exceptions here and there but wading through all the garbage and having to buy twice does not seem worth it and I rather support that country as little as possible anyway.
Just be aware that for a period of time the MX 500 had many reports of high failure rate. Not sure if it was due to a change of components or firmware.
Example post about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/whr5ek/crucial_mx500_historically_good_recent_batches/
An article (In Portuguese).
And another post about it.I had one around 2012-2013 and it failed on me. I had issues with it throughout its life but I didn’t realise it was the drive until I upgraded to a Samsung.
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They did. Cheap and reliable
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We don’t like that you’re telling OP to pick two when they’ve already picked two.
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I’ve got a couple machines running Kingston A400’s well over their rated spec, those are decently fast and start at about 30 euros
Kingston A400s and Crucial BXs have been very good as cheap SSDs in my experience.
I used to like the a400, had a few of them in service, but a few years ago I tried another one and it was terrible. Just… Slow… like an HDD. I did some research and apparently they changed something with the nand somewhere along the line. Did a bait and switch. I don’t remember the details but it annoyed me.
I actually needed to buy a budget SSD just today, and I got a BX500. We’ll see how it goes. I know not to expect much from a drive without DRAM, but at least I know that going in.
I was lucky then with the 4 A400 I’m still using. I also have 3 BX500 that have been very reliable.
Teamgroup makes decent enough products.
I bought one of there drives and it died very young. 0/10 can’t recommend
Bought two and one of those died within 72 hours.
It was really weird, first it became read-only, then it zeroed by itself, but it still was read-only, no program was able to write on it, even aban (dban is dead)
Now the replacement has more than 2 years but i downgraded it in a low activity server
I buy Samsung SSDs when I can afford them, Kingston when money is tight. Samsung is faster, especially their NVME drives. Both have been very reliable for me.
I’ve had good luck with WD Blue NVME (SN550)
I’ve put several of those into machines at work and have had years without an issue. I’m also running a WD Blue SN550 1TB in my server as one of the caches, 25000 hours power on time, >100TB written, temperatures way higher than they should be and still over 93% health remaining according to smart.
I’m also using that drive but it likes to stay toasty, it’s always in a 60-65° C range even with a low activity
I don’t really like that. Bought an heatsink and it improved a bit
When I needed them, Crucial bent over backwards for a single sale.
I’ve given them 100% of my business since for any solid-state stuff.
I’m just one internet dood but please include them in your list of candidates. They have several tiers of speed and resilience, and I’d love to see them get more business.
Yeah their MX series have been nice to me
All SSD it’s lottery, it doesn’t matter WD, Kingdian or something else… And all them from China, don’t de nationalist… IPhone made in China! So what?!
