Do ssd brands matter?

[DrZander]

I am looking into ssd's (250gb) and continually see Samsung 850 Evo as the most recommended but I do not fully understand why. I am able to get ssd's of similar storage capacity for sometimes 20-30$ less than a Samsung. Are these less reliable or have slower read speeds? Someone please enlighten me   

[Guest]

I am looking into ssd's (250gb) and continually see Samsung 850 Evo as the most recommended but I do not fully understand why. I am able to get ssd's of similar storage capacity for sometimes 20-30$ less than a Samsung. Are these less reliable or have slower read speeds? Someone please enlighten me   

You said it yourself

speed and reliablity

[The Official Czex]

Yes, many SSD manufacturers use different flash chips in their SSDs. Samsung makes their own proprietary SSD flash chips that are very fast, Intel does the same thing as well as a few other companies. However, some SSD makers use crappy chips that are almost as slow as HDDs (I'm looking at you, Kingston SSDNow series).

[asiancorruption]

Some of them won't last as many writes cycles as others. But overall, it really doesn't matter as long as you don't get one from kingston. I heard their ssds do 200mb/s, which is really piss poor. Most ssds will do around 500-550mb/s if they're sata 3. I think sata 3 is the reason they won't go faster than that. If you need faster read and write speeds pci e ssds are the way to go.

[KemoKa]

Samsung drives are constantly recommended because they use newer technology. There's also more of a sense of quality because of the more premium branding that Samsung gives their SSDs. Realistically, between that and a run-of-the-mill SP600 or even an older Crucial M4, there's not really that much of a noticeable difference.

Unless you're talking about SSDNow V300s, because those are satanic.