Samsung 850 EVO vs SanDisk SSD Plus

[Varalis]

     Hello, I am going to build a budget-ish gaming pc, and I was wondering if I would notice the difference between a sandisk ssd plus 240gb and a samsung 850 evo 250gb. The Samsung is more expensive ($20 AM), and I have never used an SSD before (first pc build). Would I notice a difference? Thanks.

[Enderman]

not in speed, no

but samsung has a much better SSD reputation, so i would go with that

[daniellearmouth]

Samsung have a better reputation as far as SSDs go, but SanDisk have quite the reputation with NAND flash as a whole. I mean, they make SD cards and stuff.

They are both reasonable options, what with having both, but I would advise the Samsung drive over the SanDisk one.

 

Samsung's five year warranty, 75TB worth of write cycles before it goes bad (which is more than any reasonable soul is going to use), and they hold their performance incredibly well.

SanDisk's SSD Plus may be a little slower and has a shorter warranty of three years (or was it two? Don't have the box on hand), but it's cheaper.

[Varalis]

 So, from a standpoint of playing games, web browsing, and recording videos every once in a while, I wouldn't notice a difference between the two? 

[scottyseng]

 So, from a standpoint of playing games, web browsing, and recording videos every once in a while, I wouldn't notice a difference between the two? 

 

It depends on how hard you push the SSD. If you're just web browsing and gaming, you wouldn't notice (Except for game load times). I think only in intensive tasks you would notice, but it depends on your budget. I mean if you can spare the $20, I would go for the Evo.

 

As for Sandisk, I can only speak for their high end SSDs, as I own the Extreme Pro and Extreme 2, and both of them still run solid and very fast. I trust Sandisk with SSDs because they're quite great with flash drives and flash cards. They also own Fusion IO now so I hope for some NVMe drives from them soon. I'm kind of bitter with Samsung after the 840 firmware issue since my Extreme 2 laughs at my cousin's 840 evo (Both are in the same generation of SSDs). The 850 series seems to be pretty good, but I'm probably going to stick with Sandisk myself (Even if I have to pay a bit more).

[Varalis]

 K thanks, that was very helpful