Is Samsung the best SSD vs Sandisk vs PNY vs others? null

Samsung is the most popular and considered the "best" brand since they manufacture the complete drive. They make the V-NAND flash, controllers, PCB, etc. many vendors like PNY will buy NAND flash from other companies like Samsung, Micron, Hynix, etc. and integrate it with another 3rd party controller like ones made by Marvel, Sandforce and just throw it together. Often times, you'll get a good quality product, but sometimes, depending on the NAND used, you may experience poor performance, or worse yet, reliability issues. I for one have nothing but great experience with Samsung, Crucial (Micron), and Intel drives. When i comes to installing an upgraded SSD drive in my new pain to open laptop of course I used Samsung even though I know it will be just as fast or reliable as many other drives out there for average home use. Another plus to Samsung's 850 Evo series, their P/E cycles are 2000+, the NAND cells can be written and erased over 2000 times each before failing. So yeah, that's pretty robust.

I've had problems with Sandisk drives. This is my fourth EVO 850 (all for different computers) and they all work great.

When I asked my IT guy, his answer was yes because of the speed, Samsung SSD is the fastest among the other types

I've only compared the Samsung against a Crucial MX100 500 gb SSD, and noticed absolutely no difference in performance. It was in a second MacBook Pro that is in my recording studio, so it is an apples to apples comparison. My online research shows the Samsung to be the best in it's class, but in the real world, any of the SSD's is a vast improvement over a standard hard drive. Samsung has the best warranty, 5 years, if I recall correctly.

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Samsung is the most popular and considered the "best" brand since they manufacture the complete drive. They make the V-NAND flash, controllers, PCB, etc. many vendors like PNY will buy NAND flash from other companies like Samsung, Micron, Hynix, etc. and integrate it with another 3rd party controller like ones made by Marvel, Sandforce and just throw it together. Often times, you'll get a good quality product, but sometimes, depending on the NAND used, you may experience poor performance, or worse yet, reliability issues. I for one have nothing but great experience with Samsung, Crucial (Micron), and Intel drives. When i comes to installing an upgraded SSD drive in my new pain to open laptop of course I used Samsung even though I know it will be just as fast or reliable as many other drives out there for average home use. Another plus to Samsung's 850 Evo series, their P/E cycles are 2000+, the NAND cells can be written and erased over 2000 times each before failing. So yeah, that's pretty robust.
Answered by Anonymous 9 years ago
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I've had problems with Sandisk drives. This is my fourth EVO 850 (all for different computers) and they all work great.
Answered by tweeks 9 years ago
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I believe it is.
Answered by Jimm 9 years ago
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When I asked my IT guy, his answer was yes because of the speed, Samsung SSD is the fastest among the other types
Answered by Abdullah 9 years ago
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I've only compared the Samsung against a Crucial MX100 500 gb SSD, and noticed absolutely no difference in performance. It was in a second MacBook Pro that is in my recording studio, so it is an apples to apples comparison. My online research shows the Samsung to be the best in it's class, but in the real world, any of the SSD's is a vast improvement over a standard hard drive. Samsung has the best warranty, 5 years, if I recall correctly.
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