850, 860 or 870 EVO?

[Tamesh16]

So its been a hot minute since I got an sata SSD, the last one was an 850 Evo in 2014/5 when 250 gb was alot

I still have that SSD but I want a 1tb to replace the hard drive that is approaching 5+ years, maybe its because since then reviews are more popular but I notice a decent amount of negative reviews against the 870.

Currently from Amazon the price of the 870 is much better than the 850 or 860 so I unsure if there is any underlying issues here

 

Never had trouble with a Samsung SSD, 850 in my laptop passed onto my parents still going strong, on my main pc a 970 evo 250gb and 970 evo plus 500 gb and no troubles yet 

Its also suspicious that the EVO is cheaper than QVO as well, so It makes me wonder

So is the 870 Evo okay?

[Dedayog]

3 minutes ago, Tamesh16 said:

So its been a hot minute since I got an sata SSD, the last one was an 850 Evo in 2014/5 when 250 gb was alot

I still have that SSD but I want a 1tb to replace the hard drive that is approaching 5+ years, maybe its because since then reviews are more popular but I notice a decent amount of negative reviews against the 870.

Currently from Amazon the price of the 870 is much better than the 850 or 860 so I unsure if there is any underlying issues here

 

Never had trouble with a Samsung SSD, 850 in my laptop passed onto my parents still going strong, on my main pc a 970 evo 250gb and 970 evo plus 500 gb and no troubles yet 

Its also suspicious that the EVO is cheaper than QVO as well, so It makes me wonder

So is the 870 Evo okay?

Yep, it's a great replacement for the HDD>  Any of them are, and there may be ones that are even cheaper. 

 

 

[Tamesh16]

For 1tb EV0 in US $ from Amazon / Micro center near me

850 - 122 / NA

860 - 119 / NA

870 - 60 / 60

870 QVO - 70 / 90

[Tamesh16]

1 minute ago, Dedayog said:

Yep, it's a great replacement for the HDD>  Any of them are, and there may be ones that are even cheaper. 

 

 

Fair enough, Just wondering. Its seems to be quite popular as well so maybe that's why some bad reviews are more apparent than other products.

Thanks though. 60 bucks for 1tb is still wild remembering how expensive it used to be

[Dedayog]

5 minutes ago, Tamesh16 said:

Fair enough, Just wondering. Its seems to be quite popular as well so maybe that's why some bad reviews are more apparent than other products.

Thanks though. 60 bucks for 1tb is still wild remembering how expensive it used to be

People can give it 1 star of 5, and it's STILL better than your HDD

 

The 850/860 are good, but they're not $122 for 1TB good.  Even a 990 Pro 1TB is $100.  $60 for a1TB is market right now, look at other SATA SSD's to compare.

 

The 850 Evo ships/sold from Memory Warehouse, a bullshit reseller marking things up...

 

[SorryBella]

19 minutes ago, Tamesh16 said:

For 1tb EV0 in US $ from Amazon / Micro center near me

850 - 122 / NA

860 - 119 / NA

870 - 60 / 60

870 QVO - 70 / 90

Any specific why you cant use an m.2 2280 SSD in this context? NvME SSDs are really dumb cheap nowadays and you can get a 2TB MP600 Pro for $130. Or if you are limited in height, you can also get 970 EVO for the same price. NV2 by Kingston exists for 30$ less but it is a basic DRAMless SSD that has teething issues that makes it not worth it IMO.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

60$ for a sata ssd yea thats stupid when the lower end of 1tb nvmes are 40$ and still obliterate the 870 evo, look for ssds going for ~40$, no more than 50$

 

Like this

[Tamesh16]

18 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

Any specific why you cant use an m.2 2280 SSD in this context? NvME SSDs are really dumb cheap nowadays and you can get a 2TB MP600 Pro for $130. Or if you are limited in height, you can also get 970 EVO for the same price. NV2 by Kingston exists for 30$ less but it is a basic DRAMless SSD that has teething issues that makes it not worth it IMO.

just space limited, only have one sata port open, and my hard drive is old so figured an ssd would be alright. I have two m.2 slots are filled with 970s

[SorryBella]

2 minutes ago, Tamesh16 said:

just space limited, only have one sata port open, and my hard drive is old so figured an ssd would be alright. I have two m.2 slots are filled with 970s

Noted. While i wouldnt go for the extreme (unless you just need a bulk storage in which case go for the rock bottom like @Somerandomtechyboi says, just make sure that theyre not hard to RMA if they suddenly dies) and get budget DRAMless SSD, spending the premium is kinda absurd when Crucial still make the venerable MX500 for like 70-80$ range for 1TB.

[Tamesh16]

38 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

reseller

Yep figured this might have been the cause of the higher price, but I shall give the 870 a shot Thanks !

[Tamesh16]

6 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

Noted. While i wouldnt go for the extreme (unless you just need a bulk storage in which case go for the rock bottom like @Somerandomtechyboi says, just make sure that theyre not hard to RMA if they suddenly dies) and get budget DRAMless SSD, spending the premium is kinda absurd when Crucial still make the venerable MX500 for like 70-80$ range for 1TB.

Probably going to get it from Micro center, so far the 1 TB 870 evo for $60 doesn't seem too bad

[Dedayog]

3 minutes ago, Tamesh16 said:

Probably going to get it from Micro center, so far the 1 TB 870 evo for $60 doesn't seem too bad

Good call.

[Doobeedoo]

Any is fine if can't fit M.2 one. I still have 850 Pro decade old now.

[Tamesh16]

On 4/18/2023 at 9:24 AM, Doobeedoo said:

Any is fine if can't fit M.2 one. I still have 850 Pro decade old now.

yeah my 850 evo is going strong 8 years now, but the 870 evo is the cheapest right now so I shall get that

Also I back up my data so incase it goes bad I should be fine