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expired Posted by tDames | Staff • Jun 19, 2023
Jun 19, 2023 7:18 AM
1TB Samsung 870 Evo 2.5" Solid State Drive SSD
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Teamgroup and Silicon Power 1TB are now at $31 so you still need to up your game. Both produce decent SSDs. At this price you are still 61% more expensive than your competitors.
Where are the Silicon Power and Team Group 1TB drives $31? The cheapest I see are ~$35-40. Also, they're not in the same league as the Samsung EVO. They're both DRAM-less drives and the Silicon Power is most likely QLC. For a cheap SATA drive, I'd at least go for the PNY CS900.
Where are the Silicon Power and Team Group 1TB drives $31? The cheapest I see are ~$35-40. Also, they're not in the same league as the Samsung EVO. They're both DRAM-less drives and the Silicon Power is most likely QLC. For a cheap SATA drive, I'd at least go for the PNY CS900.
Of course they don't have DRAM. They're also a lot slower. I'd bring up reliability but the 870 EVO also has a checkered past in that regard.
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PNY CS900 - 0/10
SanDisk SSD Plus - 0/10
Samsung 870 EVO - 1/10
Crucial MX500 - 1/10
Team Group AX2 - 1/10
Crucial BX500 - 2/10
Team Group Vulcan Z - 2/10
WD Blue SA510 - 3/10
Fanxiang - 4/10
Patriot P210 - 6/10
Silicon Power A55 - 6/10
Leven - 7/10
Now, that is a small sample size but it does show some stark differences. That doesn't even get into the massive differences in performance.
By the way, I recommend against looking at history that goes back too far, say more than a year or so. Components change, with some companies quite often. It's extremely unlikely that any SSD bought today has the same components as one sold five years ago. This is also why those SSD databases/spreadsheets should not be trusted, especially with budget drives.
For budget drives, the PNY CS900 is my current choice. It has a fairly small pSLC cache (~20GB at 1TB) but does better than other drives of the same class, once the cache is full. It uses the Phison S11 controller, paired with 96-layer Toshiba/Kioxia TLC. I've had good luck with this combination in the past (mostly in Micro Center's Inland Pro drives).
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For SATA, I currently think the Crucial MX500 is the best bet. I have not seen any widespread reports of failures (yes, I know about that one Reddit thread). There have been some software/firmware issues but they don't seem to be anything that would appreciably impact the average user. The Samsung 870 EVO has had widespread reliability issues, resulting in data loss and eventually complete failure. These issues may or may not have been fixed. The WD Blue 3D / SanDisk Ultra 3D has been replaced by the far inferior and less reliable WD Blue SA510 (sometimes sold as "newest generation"). There is an SK Hynix drive but it's not very common and I don't know much about it. That's about it for top-tier drives.
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It is only the 870 that received complaints and mostly on high capacity (4TB). Maybe Samsung fixed the 870, but who knows? (I also have a 1TB 870 and 500GB 870 on unimportant machines, but running less than a year.)
PNY CS900 - 0/10
SanDisk SSD Plus - 0/10
Samsung 870 EVO - 1/10
Crucial MX500 - 1/10
Team Group AX2 - 1/10
Crucial BX500 - 2/10
Team Group Vulcan Z - 2/10
WD Blue SA510 - 3/10
Fanxiang - 4/10
Patriot P210 - 6/10
Silicon Power A55 - 6/10
Leven - 7/10
Now, that is a small sample size but it does show some stark differences. That doesn't even get into the massive differences in performance.
By the way, I recommend against looking at history that goes back too far, say more than a year or so. Components change, with some companies quite often. It's extremely unlikely that any SSD bought today has the same components as one sold five years ago. This is also why those SSD databases/spreadsheets should not be trusted, especially with budget drives.
For SATA, I currently think the Crucial MX500 is the best bet. I have not seen any widespread reports of failures (yes, I know about that one Reddit thread). There have been some software/firmware issues but they don't seem to be anything that would appreciably impact the average user. The Samsung 870 EVO has had widespread reliability issues, resulting in data loss and eventually complete failure. These issues may or may not have been fixed. The WD Blue 3D / SanDisk Ultra 3D has been replaced by the far inferior and less reliable WD Blue SA510 (sometimes sold as "newest generation"). There is an SK Hynix drive but it's not very common and I don't know much about it. That's about it for top-tier drives.
For budget drives, the PNY CS900 is my current choice. It has a fairly small pSLC cache (~20GB at 1TB) but does better than other drives of the same class, once the cache is full. It uses the Phison S11 controller, paired with 96-layer Toshiba/Kioxia TLC. I've had good luck with this combination in the past (mostly in Micro Center's Inland Pro drives).
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