Question What was your first SSD and when did you buy it?

[cbn]

Here is my first SSD (a 64GB Sandisk 2.5") which I bought in early 2014.

 

[kschendel]

First SSD was the one in the late 2013 retina Macbook pro that I'm typing this on. The first one I bought as a separate part was a Mushkin Enhanced Reactor, 1TB, which I think I bought in early 2016. It was, and is, the primary drive in a Mac Pro which was my main work computer until last year, and is now a hadoop cluster node.

The office is now a hard drive free zone. The basement where the cluster lives is close but there are still a couple HDD's in the Mac Pro. (Not counting the Ultra 2 which isn't turned on very often.)

 

[bbhaag]

Back in 2012 I bought a 64 gb Plextor m3 drive. The price was insane compared to now but it opened my eyes to the wonderful world of fast storage and I never looked back.
All our pc's since that little Plextor have gotten ssd's. If they come from the factory with a spinner it gets removed immediately.

 

[Golgatha]

My first SSD was a Crucial C300 128GB that's still running strong on my HTPC. Bought it in 2011, first SATA III (6Gbps) SSD!

My first one was the Intel X25-M (2nd gen) 80GB, around 2010. 2nd drive was the C300 256GB for around $600 (yikes!).

 

[john3850]

My first ssd was a adata from MC for a 930 build followed by m-4 and 830.
I still have a few 830,840,850,crucial m500 and a seagate 600.

 

[quartzz1]

64GB Kingston SSDNow 5-6 years ago. Intended to use it on an XP system, altho ended up on Win 7. about £150 at the time, couldn't quite afford the 128GB. made my desktop system lightning speed. was a 1.8" form factor so couldn't find any brackets that fitted it. I recently ran a benchmark comparing it to the £100 Samsung 860 500GB I have on this laptop, it's about 2/3 the speed of the Samsung

 

[dlerious]

My first was a 960MB Sandisk Extreme Pro that was around $250 I think in 2015. Since then I've grabbed some 2TB Crucial MX300 (almost $500), another Sandisk, a 2TB Crucial MX500, a couple 1TB Adata, and 1TB Samsung 970 NvMe drives. Not too crazy about QLC drives, like higher capacity but hate decreased endurance.

 

[Elfear]

First SSDs were 4x30GB OCZ Vertex drives back in 2009. Required some tinkering to get set up right but felt very fast back in the day.

 

[southleft]

Kingston V100+ 96GB in June 2011. Still works perfectly.

Intel X25-M 80GB Oct. 2012. It sat in a drawer for a while before first use. Then, motherboard didn't recognize it. RMA'd to Intel and they replaced it with 320 model, also 80GB. Think it's the same SSD except it's SATA III. Worked OK and still going strong.

Are those two models SATA II ? Can't remember, but it doesn't matter. The PCs they're in still boot fast and run fine. Figured if they lasted 5 years I got my money's worth so now 8 years later I'm pattin' myself on the back for being soooo clever.