Sandisk or Crucial

[Brado78]

Hey guys, I can't decide on which drive to get?,, I am a little sketchy about the Evo's. I can't decide to get the Sandisk Ultra II or the Crucial BX100?

Thanks Guys

 

[coercitiv]

Well, if you're sketchy about the Evo's, you might want to know Sandisk Ultra II uses TLC memory.

 

[hojnikb]

sandisk ssd plus
bx100 (or any SM2246 based drive for that matter)
850evo

Those are all fine ssds.

 

[frowertr]

Samsung is all I buy too. Nothing wrong with them.

 

[MustISO]

I own Intel, Corsair, Crucial and Samsung and all have performed well. Haven't had more than a few years with them but no issues so far. Like any electronic component, you could get a lemon regardless of which brand you get. Have a solid backup process and you'll be fine with any of the top tier SSDs.

 

[ronbo613]

Crucial MX100, Samsung 830 and 850 EVO; no complaints.

 

[bonehead123]

I hope it's been fixed, but ever since that fiasco last year with sneaking in that batch of lower quality controllers into their drives without telling anyone, I have sworn off all sandisk products.

And low & behold, right after the above situation became public, I had a sandisk flash drive go bad, so I'm not too keen on their stuff now 🙁

However, I bought an ADATA Premier mid-2015 and it has been running like a champ since day one, and was a bit less $$ than comparable drives at the time......

And my 4 year-old OCZ Vertex 3 is STILL running well too 🙂

 

[styrafoam]

I hope it's been fixed, but ever since that fiasco last year with sneaking in that batch of lower quality controllers into their drives without telling anyone, I have sworn off all sandisk products.

And low & behold, right after the above situation became public, I had a sandisk flash drive go bad, so I'm not too keen on their stuff now 🙁

However, I bought an ADATA Premier mid-2015 and it has been running like a champ since day one, and was a bit less $$ than comparable drives at the time......

And my 4 year-old OCZ Vertex 3 is STILL running well too 🙂

I believe you are thinking of kingston. I am unable to find any mention of sandisk getting caught doing the controller switcharoo.

 

[Pandasaurus]

I believe you are thinking of kingston. I am unable to find any mention of sandisk getting caught doing the controller switcharoo.

And it was a NAND switch (from Toshiba Toggle NAND to Micron Asynchronous), not a controller switch. LOL. That said, I have 8 V300's in my ESX box, because they're still going to be better than platters, and they were silly cheap. I'd still go for Crucial, in any case.

 

[Ranulf]

Samsung is all I buy too. Nothing wrong with them.

Yeah, no. So far the 850 seems good along with the other "50" models. They did manage to nuke many 950s last year with a bad firmware update. I'm still gunshy after the 840 evo insanity.

 

[PliotronX]

I believe you are thinking of kingston. I am unable to find any mention of sandisk getting caught doing the controller switcharoo.

Yup, Kingston's on my short S-List after that move. It wouldn't have been so bad if they hadn't tried to justify it either. At least Crucial labelled their abortion of a SSD to BX200 so that I can avoid it. BX100 is still one of my favs :thumbsup:

 

[Charlie98]

I'm avoiding Samsung at this point, having said that my Crucial M500 is a dog... but at least it works. If I were to pick a Crucial drive, I'd go with the MX200, otherwise I'd go with Intel.