What SSD Should I Get?

[Made In Canada]

Hi, im new to this website and new to PC's so if i do something wrong or am misunderstood, sorry.  I am building my first PC in about 1 month from now, and as i was building it on PCpartpicker, my friend said to get an ssd.  Now i didint know what an ssd was at the time, so i did a bit of research, and found out that an ssd is a storage divise that whatever you store on it, is given a boost in speed.  So im am new to this, and tried to find the best i could get with my budget, but no websites really help or at least seem clear in explaining what is the best. The SSD's im looking at are the Samsung 840 pro and the Samsung 850 pro.  I have also heard about the samsung Evo series but dont know anything on that.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[TheGamingBarrel]

The "PRO" Series SSD's are released before the "EVO" the "PRO"s are more for enterprise SATA high speed storage and generally dont get many features. The "EVO" is normally released later, gets more software updates and is aimed more at the average consumer.

 

So get a 850 EVO OR a Crucial MX100 Which is also very good.

[DirkW]

@Made In Canada

 

The "PRO" Series SSD's are released before the "EVO" the "PRO"s are more for enterprise SATA high speed storage and generally dont get many features. The "EVO" is normally released later, gets more software updates and is aimed more at the average consumer.

 

So get a 850 EVO OR a Crucial MX100 Which is also very good.

 

Or one could simply say the Pros are the ones produced with the better, but also more expensive MLC NAND, and the Evos are the consumer grade ones with the cheaper, and less reliable TLC NAND. The Pros are better than the Evos in pretty much every way - except of course: price. And the difference in price is actually larger than the difference in everything else is worth for most users.

[TheGamingBarrel]

@Made In Canada

 

 

Or one could simply say the Pros are the ones produced with the better, but also more expensive MLC NAND, and the Evos are the consumer grade ones with the cheaper, and less reliable TLC NAND. The Pros are better than the Evos in pretty much every way - except of course: price. And the difference in price is actually larger than the difference in everything else is worth for most users.

Except that speed wise they are the same because yay for SATA III 6Gb/s.

[DirkW]

Except that speed wise they are the same because yay for SATA III 6Gb/s.

 

As long as Samsung's little controller/cache trick works - yes. When you run out of that, Evo performance drops. (Which will in fact happen extremely rarely, at least on the larger variants - on the 120 GB versions, you might see that more often).

 

Also the point "gets more software updates"... SSDs don't have any software I'm aware of (unless you're talking about the magician software - which is also used by the Pros). And the fact that there were more firmware updates for the Evos in the past... that's hardly something positive, considering the 840 Evos' bug, which had to be fixed twice now.

 

Is the Evo still more compelling for the money? Absolutely!

[TheGamingBarrel]

As long as Samsung's little controller/cache trick works - yes. When you run out of that, Evo performance drops. (Which will in fact happen extremely rarely, at least on the larger variants - on the 120 GB versions, you might see that more often).

 

Also the point "gets more software updates"... SSDs don't have any software I'm aware of (unless you're talking about the magician software - which is also used by the Pros). And the fact that there were more firmware updates for the Evos in the past... that's hardly something positive, considering the 840 Evos' bug, which had to be fixed twice now.

 

Is the Evo still more compelling for the money? Absolutely!

I should have worded it better, I meant firmware but said software Which if there is an issue you know it is getting fixed faster, but then there is a chance of another issue

[DirkW]

I should have worded it better, I meant firmware but said software Which if there is an issue you know it is getting fixed faster, but then there is a chance of another issue

Unfortunately the (840) Evo had some major bug that the Pro just didn't have - so the only one needing that many fixes was the Evo. I really wouldn't call that a plus for the Evo at all. If one was needed, Samsung would provide a firmware update for the Pro just as quickly as for the Evo (or even faster, considering intended usage scenarios for both drives).

SSD/HDD Firmware is not like GPU drivers: it's not regularly played around with to get another 2% performance or so.

[Doobeedoo]

Well, between Samsung 850 Pro and Evo, you will be find with any of those two. Just pick one that suits your budget.