WD Solid State Drives

[Techstorm970]

Also, which SSD brands are better or worse than WD?

[mikedrewsmy]

Depends on which one?

WD Black SSDs are quite speedy and good.

WD Greens are okay and value for money.

[ARikozuM]

I prefer Adata and Crucial if you're looking for a bit more value. Samsung is only above for its warranty. 

[Sakkura]

The WD Blue 3D is one of the best mainstream SATA SSDs, alongside the Sandisk Ultra 3D (identical to the WD Blue 3D), the Samsung 860 Evo, and the Crucial MX500. But of course they have a range of products from kinda crummy to fast NVMe stuff.

[Mooshi]

30 minutes ago, Techstorm970 said:

Also, which SSD brands are better or worse than WD?

They're SanDisk drives with a WD label.

[kirashi]

59 minutes ago, Techstorm970 said:

Also, which SSD brands are better or worse than WD?

I only purchase SSD's from either Crucial or Samsung, since these 2 are the only companies that design and manufacturer 100% of the SSD through their in-house teams. That's not to say other brands are bad, however, I prefer to support companies that make everything from the circuit board to the flash NAND, the controller, SATA interface, and outer casing of the drive rather than companies who use a controller from another company and flash NAND from another company only to pass it off as their own product.

[Sakkura]

On 28/8/2018 at 4:19 AM, kirashi said:

I only purchase SSD's from either Crucial or Samsung, since these 2 are the only companies that design and manufacturer 100% of the SSD through their in-house teams. That's not to say other brands are bad, however, I prefer to support companies that make everything from the circuit board to the flash NAND, the controller, SATA interface, and outer casing of the drive rather than companies who use a controller from another company and flash NAND from another company only to pass it off as their own product.

That doesn't make sense. Crucial (well, Micron really) does not design and manufacture 100% of the SSD in-house. They get controllers from Marvell and Silicon Motion.

[kirashi]

16 hours ago, Sakkura said:

That doesn't make sense. Crucial (well, Micron really) does not design and manufacture 100% of the SSD in-house. They get controllers from Marvell and Silicon Motion.

Aha! We have a winner.  I was hoping someone would catch this after so many of my forum thread replies claiming that Crucial (Micron) makes their controllers too, because it's true that we have yet to see controllers from Micron in the wild since they acquired Tidal Systems back in 2016. However, if things go as Micron claims, we should start to see SSD's that are truly 100% designed and developed in-house.

 

That being said, I'd much rather use controllers made by either Marvell or Microsemi anyway (the controller companies that Micron currently uses) over SandForce, for example, simply because something about being the the company behind the controllers used in almost every regular spinning hard drive, most tiny U-Boot-based linux devices (routers, NAS drives, cable boxes, etc.), and BIOS flash NAND in use since the 1990's inspires much more confidence than the [lack of] confidence we saw from SandForce's questionably reliable (or the complete fail that was Indilinx) controllers over the years.