Austin S. Hemmelgarn posted on Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:54:54 -0400 as excerpted:
> As of right now, the top three brands of SSD as far as quality IMHO are > Intel, Samsung, and Crucial. I usually go with Crucial myself because > they are almost on-par with the other two, give more deterministic > performance (their peak performance is often lower, but I'm willing to > sacrifice a bit of performance to get consistency across operating > conditions), and cost less (sometimes less than half as much as an > equivalently sized Intel or Samsung SSD) . Kingston, SanDisk, ADATA, > Transcend, and Micron are generally OK, but sometimes have issues with > data loss when they lose power unexpectedly (this likely won't be an > issue for you though if you have a system that's on 24/7). The only > brand I would actively avoid is OCZ, as they've had numerous issues with > reliability and data integrity over multiple revisions of multiple > models of SSD. Thanks. This is useful information for me as well, because while I'm not in the /immediate/ market for SSDs ATM, I'm relatively likely to be doing some new machines later this year, and will likely either be getting new ssds for them or will be getting newer and bigger for my main machine and will be putting the current 256 GiB main machine ssds in the smaller machines. So I was recently looking at prices on pricewatch.com, and wondering again about brands. I got relatively lucky with my first ssds purchased some years ago when I knew little about them (except that one went bad prematurely, but it has been replaced with one of the others now), but know much more about the technology now. Only thing is I knew nothing about which brands were in general good or to stay away from, in ordered to narrow down the search a bit, so this was really helpful, particularly the Crucial bit as I already know Intels aren't realistically in my price range. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
