Best SSDs

[MJose]

Hello,

i am planning to replace my laptop's hard drive with SSD, but i am confused which one to prefer. Can anyone suggest me on this?

 

[corkyg]

It would be useful if you would specify size needed.

 

[MustISO]

There's no "best", if there was everyone would buy only that one. All the top tier makers make good drives. A size and budget would be very helpful.

I own many brands from Samsung, Intel, Crucial, Corsair and all have been great. I prefer MLC based drives when I can get them cheap but the TLC drives from Crucial and Samsung have been good so far.

 

[Brado78]

I currently use a Sandisk Ultra II in my desktop and a Kingston in my laptop, The Sandisk I think is an excellent budget drive. good performance and really good duration.. I put this thing through hell for about 4 months

 

[Shmee]

Also, the specs of the laptop would be good to know, so we can be aware of any issues/bottlenecks.

 

[Brado78]

An ssd with asynchronous nand is a bottleneck Stay away from them....

 

[VirtualLarry]

An ssd with asynchronous nand is a bottleneck Stay away from them....

Well, we know that async MLC NAND is slower than sync MLC NAND, which is slower than Toggle MLC NAND.

We also know that TLC NAND is generally slower to program (possibly not slower to read, but likely), than MLC.

So, is TLC NAND, used in many popular planar TLC NAND SSD drives, slower than Async MLC NAND used in older drives?

I have some VisionTek GoDrive SSDs, which use Async NAND (they are advertised as such), with the 2nd-Gen SandForce controller, and they actually perform quite well, even if their 4K QD32 read scores are fairly low (50MB/sec).

 

[MJose]

It would be useful if you would specify size needed.

Approxi of 1TB

 

[MJose]

Also, the specs of the laptop would be good to know, so we can be aware of any issues/bottlenecks.

Windows 10 OS
64 Bit

 

[MJose]

Well, we know that async MLC NAND is slower than sync MLC NAND, which is slower than Toggle MLC NAND.

We also know that TLC NAND is generally slower to program (possibly not slower to read, but likely), than MLC.

So, is TLC NAND, used in many popular planar TLC NAND SSD drives, slower than Async MLC NAND used in older drives?

I have some VisionTek GoDrive SSDs, which use Async NAND (they are advertised as such), with the 2nd-Gen SandForce controller, and they actually perform quite well, even if their 4K QD32 read scores are fairly low (50MB/sec).

i am not that techie to understand NAND terminologies...

 

[MJose]

I currently use a Sandisk Ultra II in my desktop and a Kingston in my laptop, The Sandisk I think is an excellent budget drive. good performance and really good duration.. I put this thing through hell for about 4 months

Some of my friends suggested me to go with SanDisk or Intel..

 

[Namo]

Some of my friends suggested me to go with SanDisk or Intel..

As I can see, you need 1 TB. Then go with the following (these are the best in serial order) -

1. Samsung 850 Pro 1TB
2. Sandisk Extreme Pro 1TB
3. Samsung 850 Evo 1TB

 

[nerp]

As I can see, you need 1 TB. Then go with the following (these are the best in serial order) -

1. Samsung 850 Pro 1TB
2. Sandisk Extreme Pro 1TB
3. Samsung 850 Evo 1TB

Good suggestions. I would stay away from Intel for 1TB drives as their really good stuff is enterprise class and very pricey and a bit overkill for a consumer's use.

 

[Shmee]

Windows 10 OS
64 Bit

Thanks, but I was referring more to its hardware specs. How old, what CPU, etc.