Cheap SSDS

[Snakkey]

Are cheap ssds good? These are the ssds I am looking at. Which one is the best.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211984

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820228142

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233950

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226791

[Sir Asvald]

4 minutes ago, Snakkey said:

Are cheap ssds good? These are the ssds I am looking at. Which one is the best.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211984

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820228142

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233950

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226791

I'd go for the Adata. Very good.  

[Oshino Shinobu]

None of them are bad or otherwise significantly worse than the others. In general, all SSDs are pretty decent and significantly faster than any HDD. 

[flibberdipper]

Out of all those, the SP550 will probably end up being the most durable.

[W-L]

9 minutes ago, Snakkey said:

Are cheap ssds good? These are the ssds I am looking at. Which one is the best.

As mentioned the SP550 is a good one, another to add to that list I recommend would be the 750 EVO. 

[kirashi]

My sentiments align with others here as well in regard to the SP550 being a good budget SSD.

I find that ADATA makes some of the better, longer lasting budget SSDs on the market currently.

[FireFlame9222]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=0ZK-00AB-001B4&cm_re=750_evo-_-0ZK-00AB-001B4-_-Product

[Wingfan]

I have The OCZ one on that list, good drive for the price. would recommend

 

-edit- the 960GB version-

[asdf2061]

Buy 128 Gigs of RAM and set up a RAM drive. Yea, I would go with Adata, but all SSDs are generally the same, with the 850 Pro standing out a bit. Go with anyone that has a good warranty.

[Bradl79]

Linus said main things to look for is 4k read and writes (for being OS) ,  iops and how much data can be written before it fails,  cheap drives are going to give u stand out of sequential read and writes,  but may have slow 4k and has less endurance, but I don't think u will have to worry about the endurance for another couple years but by then u will need to upgrade anyway

[Wingfan]

1 hour ago, I_IHaveNoLife_l said:

Buy 128 Gigs of RAM and set up a RAM drive. Yea, I would go with Adata, but all SSDs are generally the same, with the 850 Pro standing out a bit. Go with anyone that has a good warranty.

And really fast  i have an 850 Pro for my OS drive, WOW speeds 

[Wingfan]

8 minutes ago, Bradl79 said:

Linus said main things to look for is 4k read and writes (for being OS) ,  iops and how much data can be written before it fails,  cheap drives are going to give u stand out of sequential read and writes,  but may have slow 4k and has less endurance, but I don't think u will have to worry about the endurance for another couple years but by then u will need to upgrade anyway

 

[Bradl79]

2 hours ago, Wingfan said:

 

how is that possible on that drive with a 128GB, r u raided? oh it must be rapid mode, are those just samsung drives?

[W-L]

Just now, Bradl79 said:

how is that possible on that drive with a 128GB, r u raided?

That's using samsung's Rapide Mode so it uses your RAM as a cache so the results will be inflated. 

[Wingfan]

Just now, Bradl79 said:

how is that possible on that drive with a 128GB, r u raided?

Not a RAID, have no idea why i get these numbers. Have another benchmark i could use to get a more realistic number?

[Wingfan]

7 minutes ago, W-L said:

That's using samsung's Rapide Mode so it uses your RAM as a cache so the results will be inflated. 

If i disable the rapid mode would i get a more realistic number?

[W-L]

Just now, Wingfan said:

If i disable the rapid mode would i get a more realistic number?

Yes it should give you approx the numbers that the manufacture specs for the reads and write, right now it's taking the speed at which it can cache stuff to your RAM. 

[Wingfan]

Just now, W-L said:

Yes it should give you approx the numbers that the manufacture specs for the reads and write, right now it's taking the speed at which it can cache stuff to your RAM. 

I will run the bench with out that, but is using the cache a bad thing?

[Bradl79]

if u have at least 16gb of ram u will be ok

[Wingfan]

2 minutes ago, Bradl79 said:

if u have at least 16gb of ram u will be ok

I have 16GB, 2133MHz if that makes a difference? prolly not

[Bradl79]

8 minutes ago, Wingfan said:

I have 16GB, 2133MHz if that makes a difference? prolly not

I think rapid mode will use about 2 - 3gb of RAM, i don't game so i am not sure how much RAM games use but i rarely ever go over 5GB of 16GB of RAM during load 

 

i think i am going to upgrade to some evo's lol, thank u

Edited October 2, 2016 by Bradl79

[W-L]

3 minutes ago, Wingfan said:

I will run the bench with out that, but is using the cache a bad thing?

Well it's not bad in terms of performance but it does mean that since it's caching data in RAM if you were to suddenly have a power failure when it was working you can potentially lose or have corrupted data. So I usually recommend for it to only be used if you have a UPS or it's inside of a laptop. 

[Wingfan]

1 minute ago, W-L said:

Well it's not bad in terms of performance but it does mean that since it's caching data in RAM if you were to suddenly have a power failure when it was working you can potentially lose or have corrupted data. So I usually recommend for it to only be used if you have a UPS or it's inside of a laptop. 

Well its my my home pc, and power outages only happen during Hurricane season which is almost upon me.

So if its using RAM to cache, is it a true performance boost for my SSD? I notice only Samsung SSD's do this.

 

Forgive my ignorance on this, trying to educate myself

[W-L]

Just now, Wingfan said:

Well its my my home pc, and power outages only happen during Hurricane season which is almost upon me.

So if its using RAM to cache, is it a true performance boost for my SSD? I notice only Samsung SSD's do this.

Forgive my ignorance on this, trying to educate myself

It's definitely not constantly at the speed that is just what is benchmarked, it mainly helps with caching important programs so they have extra fast load times and reads and optimizes writes to the drive by dumping most of the data onto RAM and has the SSD catch up, in simple terms. That is also where it can induce some risk since the caching during write is where data can potentially have the risk of corruption if something happens. 

[Wingfan]

8 minutes ago, W-L said:

. That is also where it can induce some risk since the caching during write is where data can potentially have the risk of corruption if something happens. 

How big is this risk? is it enough to worry about?