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SATA SSDs any reason to go Samsung over Crucial?

Mark Kaine

I just bought a Evo 870 and I'm having second thoughts ...

 

Note i haven't tested it yet, but i did test my existing SSDs. 2 Evos and a mx500...

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so this is pretty clear to me, the mx500 is faster, for ~35 euros less for the 1tb versions.  Now as said i haven't tested the 870, but I don't see how its gonna be much different (also considering the 850 handily beats the newer 860) so is there any reason why i wouldn't go with a crucial and save almost 40 bucks? I really thought "Samsung surely is faster" but doesn't seem like that at all...  (also note, I don't think age of the drives plays a role, the 850 is far older, has far more reads/writes and power on hours, yet, performs better than the newer 860... )

 

So why am I not returning this junk? (the 870) 🤣

 

 

Edit: OK I see the mx500 is slower by 100mb in "4k" read/writes... but i don't know what that means, is it more or less important than sequential? 

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I wouldn't worry too much about comparing those results from your existing drives. The 860 obviously isn't performing as it should, but I don't know why. From my experience the 870 EVO is very close to the 860 EVO. The MX500 is a perfectly fine drive as well. It's what I usually go with for most things. 

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13 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

I just bought a Evo 870 and I'm having second thoughts ...

 

Note i haven't tested it yet, but i did test my existing SSDs. 2 Evos and a mx500...

evo860vsevo850vsmx500najc1.thumb.png.34c61e5eeacc23ae380a049a38b8c1fc.png

 

so this is pretty clear to me, the mx500 is faster, for ~35 euros less for the 1tb versions.  Now as said i haven't tested the 870, but I don't see how its gonna be much different (also considering the 850 handily beats the newer 860) so is there any reason why i wouldn't go with a crucial and save almost 40 bucks? I really thought "Samsung surely is faster" but doesn't seem like that at all...  (also note, I don't think age of the drives plays a role, the 850 is far older, has far more reads/writes and power on hours, yet, performs better than the newer 860... )

 

So why am I not returning this junk? (the 870) 🤣

 

 

Edit: OK I see the mx500 is slower by 100mb in "4k" read/writes... but i don't know what that means, is it more or less important than sequential? 

The samsung also has 300tbw vs the crucials 180 tbw. It really isn't a big issue, but it does account for the price difference.

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