What SSD brands are reliable
Posted by OneEyedC4t@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 26 comments
What brands of SSD are reliable in your opinion? not talking necessarily for gaming or for home office stuff. just asking in general: what SSD brands are usually trustworthy investments?
Asian_Scion@reddit
Man, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Seagate. They used to be the primo of all drives. When I started building PCs in the 90s, I would only always buy Seagate. Now my go to are 1. Samsung 2. WD 3. Seagate (FireCuda)
kosuke09211@reddit
Always samsung. If it's too much for your budget. WD is my 2nd option.
Hawk7117@reddit
Both those are absolutely top tier drive manufacturers, but WD (now Sandisk) is just as expensive as Samsung most of the time. I would say Corsair and SK Hynix are in this same tier as well most of the time.
Crucial, Inland, KLEVV and even SP all have far more affordable options that are admittedly subpar sometimes on the spec sheet, but are at least serviceable for most use cases.
itsshiftymcgoo@reddit
I've purchased dozens of SSDs and I've never seen one fail. I've bought everything from premium to budget.
My first 128GB Kingston SSD from ~15 years ago is still kicking.
airmantharp@reddit
I have an ancient OCZ that bricked itself.
Everything else I think works, especially the NVMe drives.
SuspiciousArt7316@reddit
I’m also in the OCZ brick club.
Soggy-Airline@reddit
I normally don't go with the popular mainstream brands like Samsung or WD.
I've only ever owned Patriot and ADATA NVME's. Been using my Adata XPG8200 Pro for 6 years now as my main drive... no issues, not even once.
And I have a Patriot Viper VP4300 Lite as my secondary. No issues at all.
Will only buy ADATA and Patriot. More price-friendly than the big brands, and still just as good.
beirch@reddit
WD, Kingston and Intel have been flawless for me. My 13 years old Intel 335 is still going strong.
AceLamina@reddit
Use to be crucial but you know... Then there's Samsung who overpriced their SSDs but kg they're decent, I'd rather go for someone like Kingston though
Celcius_87@reddit
Samsung and Western Digital
Moist-Highway-6787@reddit
Samsung, Sampson and Sampson
SIDER250@reddit
r/NewMaxx
thebenson@reddit
Paging the king.
SuspiciousArt7316@reddit
Samsung has had some one off bad ones in the past where their firmware would blow the drive up. To be fair, all the manufacturers ran into some kind of issues early on.
Most are pretty solid now. I would buy Corsair, Mushkin, Crucial, Samsung, or WD without a hesitation. Chinese brands give me a bit of pause.
airmantharp@reddit
Just wait about six months after release to buy Samsung’s latest. They have a proven track record of screwing up firmware catastrophically to this day.
But after they get patched up they’re class leading!
Pumciusz@reddit
It was just a few years ago on the same drives they are still selling. "Early on" doesn't fit in the next sentence even if that wasn't your argument.
yungplague40blunts@reddit
I have a wd blue sn580, it’s now discontinued but the 5100 series i think is the replacement, it’s honestly pretty good, got it for €50 1TB, I only play games though so the only time it gets pushed is when im installing a new stema game
ImVeryUnimaginative@reddit
All of my SSDs are Samsung (one was bought used) and I haven't had an issue with none of them.
No_Spare1827@reddit
Its varies by specific SSDs but the ussual Samsung, Western Digital, Crucial, but lesser know brands would be TEAMGROUP, Klevv, and Inland. These are brands That I use or I would put in a friends PC
timbotheny26@reddit
Always found Samsung to be worth the price and they generally don't have weird issues. (I say generally because there was a firmware issue with the 990 Pros a couple of years ago, but it's been fixed.)
SubieWRX9102@reddit
All of them are reliable vs mechanical HD with moving parts it will outlast CPU/GPU upgrade cycle
Slimshadyhighschool@reddit
Wd was flawless for me.
9okm@reddit
WD
combovertomm@reddit
I like western digital
PusheenHater@reddit
Never had an issue with Samsung SSDs. 850 EVO, 870 EVO, 970 EVO.
My Silicon Power A55 (I call it ASS) sometimes and randomly refuses to be recognized. I have to wait and then restart and then it'll fix itself. Scary stuff that's why I just store less important stuff on this.
RumbleTheCassette@reddit
Most modern ones are decent. Some that are overlooked but are also reliable are Inland and Mushkin, imo.