Are these SSDs from unknown (to me) brands any good?

[CaptainPlanet]

Super Talent
https://www.amazon.com/Super-Talent-256GB-Solid-FTM56N325H/dp/B07WNK8QR8/

 

Valuegist
https://www.amazon.com/Valuegist-240GB-Internal-Desktop-Laptop/dp/B06XPYJ1HM/

 

TOROSUS
https://www.amazon.com/TOROSUS-240GB-Industrial-Enterprise-TSA/dp/B07RS114MZ/

 

TC SUNBOW
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073W3QX2J/

 

They any good?

 

Either I get these, or I go for Adata.

 

Just need a cheap drive to breath some new life into a really old device. Don't want to put much money into it.

 

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Finally I have come down to these 2 models

 

Team L5 Lite 3D vs Sunbow X3

A Taiwanese company who's been doing stuff since 97 but only has 1 year warranty and is sold by Canada Computers
or

 

A no name Chinese company who uses exact same parts as other Chinese no name brands. It does have 3 year warranty but you also don't know if they will be in business in 3 years to uphold the warranty but this item is sold by Amazon

 

I feel inclined to buy the Team Group one, any reason not to?

 

Damn, how come I never looked into Team group before? Adata sells the same grade stuff for way more and not even that much better.

[leo1798]

I would go with Adata or Teamgroup, they usually have a DRAM cache in their SSD's. These most likely don't making them cheaper, but slow as molasses.

[hello_there_123]

2 minutes ago, leo1798 said:

I would go with Adata or Teamgroup, they usually have a DRAM cache in their SSD's. 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B27_j9NDPU3cNlj2HKcrfpJKHkOf-Oi1DbuuQva2gT4/edit#gid=0

 

Newmaxx's SSD Spreadsheet. Very useful so that you don't have to guess on which SSDs have DRAM and which don't. 

[hello_there_123]

6 minutes ago, Fin the Human said:

I would just go with a trusted brand, most of these cheap ones will be just as slow as an hdd.

3 of those don't have reviews so I can't comment on them, but the Tcsunbow X3 usually will be very fast, to the point where the average consumer will not notice the difference between it and say an 860 evo. Do your research before commenting. 

[hello_there_123]

1 minute ago, Fin the Human said:

I haven't bought many cheap SSDs and many of these Chinese ones are quite unreliable from my experience. It would just make a lot more sense to buy a name brand one such as this one: https://www.amazon.com/ADATA-SU635-3D-NAND-Internal-ASU635SS-240GQ-R/dp/B07PLNNDL2/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=240gb+a400&qid=1568601615&s=electronics&sr=1-2 which is cheaper and name brand.

Do you just automatically assume that everything you're not familiar with is bad? 

And what's inherently bad with TcSunBow being a Chinese brand? 

If you would've looked at Newmaxx's SSD Spreadsheet that I linked earlier, you would see that the X3 is an SM2258 drive, same controller as the MX500, just with worse binned and 32L nand vs 64L nand, probably a smaller SLC cache and worse firmware, none of which are likely to affect most people. 

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

Crucial BX500 for $2 more:

 

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-BX500-240GB-2-5-Inch-Internal/dp/B07G3KRZBX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=DXRG45T5FVIN&keywords=bx500+240gb&qid=1568601872&s=electronics&sprefix=bx500%2Celectronics%2C327&sr=1-1

[CaptainPlanet]

I feel like if I am going to buy an SSD with dram I will just go with the intel one that's the cheapest right now, but I don't want to spend even that little bit more. This is for an old gaming console, and I am using it for downloadable games so it should be mostly loading only.

[CaptainPlanet]

2 hours ago, hello_there_123 said:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B27_j9NDPU3cNlj2HKcrfpJKHkOf-Oi1DbuuQva2gT4/edit#gid=0

 

Newmaxx's SSD Spreadsheet. Very useful so that you don't have to guess on which SSDs have DRAM and which don't. 

What's the final verdict on TC Sunbow X3? I really don't want to put any more money than this price range, and this appears to be ranked higher than Adata SU650

 

Not that many people have reviewed it, and Amazon reviews are really mixed on this.

 

 

 

 

[VEXICUS]

4 minutes ago, CaptainPlanet said:

What's the final verdict on TC Sunbow X3? I really don't want to put any more money than this price range, and this appears to be ranked higher than Adata SU650

 

Not that many people have reviewed it, and Amazon reviews are really mixed on this.

 

 

 

 

The tcsunbow x3 drive is pretty good for the most part.

It has pretty decent internals with a sm2258 controller and also houses in a 1gb ddr3 DRAM cache from micron (d9mnt).

[Thready]

The reason why I would not trust these companies isn't because I'm afraid they use cheaper labor and parts, but because if the storage breaks, I know nothing of how reliable their RMA is. To me, the ease and reliability of RMA matters big time with storage. Big time.

[CaptainPlanet]

Yeah the RMA thing is a good point.

12 hours ago, VEXICUS said:

The tcsunbow x3 drive is pretty good for the most part.

It has pretty decent internals with a sm2258 controller and also houses in a 1gb ddr3 DRAM cache from micron (d9mnt).

What's the RMA process like for Sunbow? Is it up to Amazon to uphold it like how Samsung does it?

[hello_there_123]

1 hour ago, CaptainPlanet said:

Yeah the RMA thing is a good point.

What's the RMA process like for Sunbow? Is it up to Amazon to uphold it like how Samsung does it?

I'd bet that Amazon would accept the return given their excellent customer service

[CaptainPlanet]

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[CaptainPlanet]

Finally I have come down to these 2 models

 

Team L5 Lite 3D vs Sunbow X3

A Taiwanese company who's been doing stuff since 97 but only has 1 year warranty and is sold by Canada Computers
or

 

A no name Chinese company who uses exact same parts as other Chinese no name brands. It does have 3 year warranty but you also don't know if they will be in business in 3 years to uphold the warranty but this item is sold by Amazon

 

I feel inclined to buy the Team Group one, any reason not to?

 

Damn, how come I never looked into Team group before? Adata sells the same grade stuff for way more and not even that much better.

[Pickles von Brine]

Supertallent is not an unknown brand. They have been around for a while. The others, I have no idea who they are.