Cheapest and best 512GB SSD?

[Topweasel]

I really think this running out of writes thing is blown way out of proportion. Out of interest I had a look at my fathers SSD which is some old 90GB OCZ from circa 2010. According to SSD life it is still 91%. And he's a moderate user. This is over 4 years.

I would think even a heavy user would need to use it for over a decade before it became an issue. How many people plan to have the same SSD in 15 years?

Write endurance isn't anything to worry about anymore but as OCZ found out the hard way their is a lot more to SSD reliability than just how much data can be written to it.

 

[NTMBK]

Get the MX100.

 

[Charlie98]

I thought of putting Plextor in but they are really a boutique supplier. They don't really do OEM sales and their sample size is so much smaller than anyone else. I'd put them tier 2 with Corsair and Mushkin and a few others.

Not trying to split hairs here... but Plextor makes the OEM Liteon SSDs (I know, I have one of each.) How can Liteon be Tier 1 and Plextor be Tier 2? I don't really consider them a boutique supplier, either, the M5P was faster than the 840Pro for a while (or at least it's equivalent...) Plextor's biggest problem, IMHO, is a combination of marketing and pricing; I just don't think they will ever be able to compete in a broader market without more competitive pricing, and they will probably never have the brand recognition that someone like Samsung has. :\

 

[npaladin-2000]

Get the 840 EVO, it's plenty reliable, and it's durable enough. People need to learn the difference between durability and reliability.

 

[Charlie98]

Get the 840 EVO, it's plenty reliable, and it's durable enough. People need to learn the difference between durability and reliability.

 

[Topweasel]

Not trying to split hairs here... but Plextor makes the OEM Liteon SSDs (I know, I have one of each.) How can Liteon be Tier 1 and Plextor be Tier 2? I don't really consider them a boutique supplier, either, the M5P was faster than the 840Pro for a while (or at least it's equivalent...) Plextor's biggest problem, IMHO, is a combination of marketing and pricing; I just don't think they will ever be able to compete in a broader market without more competitive pricing, and they will probably never have the brand recognition that someone like Samsung has. :\

Other way around Plextor uses rewritten Lite-on drives. Big difference. The Plextor's come out later and even have Lite-on on on the boards if you open them up. Lite-on is a volume supplier that manufacturers just to supply them with components. They are by far the safest bets because they don't try to win benches and tend to take every route for reliability they can. Plextor sells the same Marvell chips as Liteon and Micron, but they go for performance. They also offer one heck of a warranty. But do to their pricing at nearly the Intel side of things, they don't have nearly the sample size to recommend to people.

I look at tiers as a what I would be doing if I was making a system. Tier 2 I would buy for myself or possibly recommend for a person that was looking for a great deal or the best performance or some specific mixture of the two. But if I had to support either with my time or my money for someone else, I would always go Tier 1.

 

[Topweasel]

Get the 840 EVO, it's plenty reliable, and it's durable enough. People need to learn the difference between durability and reliability.

I will never perceive the EVO as reliable. To many opportunities for uncommited writes. Maybe reliable enough and I wouldn't have a problem with it in my laptop, but it takes a lot of liberties with your data to get the performance it does.