help for ssd

[kakhat]

Which SSD should I get around 200$ with 500 GB 

I don't know which one is best choice 

[KemoKa]

At that price point, a Samsung 850 Evo.
 

[Synawke]

you can get an 850 EVO 500 gig for around 150

[drewjn]

Intel is usually more expensive, decent brand.

Samsung evo/pro are also decent choices and evo is cheaper (good quality) and pro is equal to intel's higher priced items (longer warranty and slight performance increase over evo).

 

Adata are cheapo ones that people use to set in raid, and I would NEVER touch Kingston ssd3now (or w/e that one is called). The xfury brand for ssd is also sub par.

[DXMember]

you can get 950Pro for 300$ and it would be the fastest SSD as of yet

[ToniBamboni]

Intel is usually more expensive, decent brand.

Samsung evo/pro are also decent choices and evo is cheaper (good quality) and pro is equal to intel's higher priced items (longer warranty and slight performance increase over evo).

 

Adata are cheapo ones that people use to set in raid, and I would NEVER touch Kingston ssd3now (or w/e that one is called). The xfury brand for ssd is also sub par.

I have one of those Kingston SSds, why are they bad?

[Becausei'mBatman]

I have one of those Kingston SSds, why are they bad?

I am pretty sure kingston started using a cheaper build quality or something along those lines

[SaladFingers]

I haven't seen any Kingstons failing or under-performing so far personally. I wouldn't advice against them, but as others have said at this price point I think the 850 Evo is a great buy.

[KemoKa]

I have one of those Kingston SSds, why are they bad?

They did a bait-and-switch with the NAND chips, switched to Asynchronous NAND instead of Synchronous NAND. Cut the speed of the drive clean in half. 140MB/s read, 70MB/s write. About as slow as a mechanical hard drive, possibly even slower. About on par with eMMC. Pathetic. And they're the only SSD that Staples sells to average consumers, so they don't know they're being screwed up the ass.

[drewjn]

I have one of those Kingston SSds, why are they bad?

As @Becausei'mBatman said, they released an initial one for benchmarks, then following after that they changed the manufacturing of the product to a different country and decreased costs of production. Due to this, the specific brand and model I mentioned is so sub par that it ranks equal or less than a base quality Adata. You may have lucked out on it, or have a different model, either way the ssd branch for Kingston is a tad sketchy.

 

Also, @ KemoKa explained it quite precisely. They don't fail, but they under perform and are horrible value. Hence why it is always on sale on Amazon and Newegg.