What is your go to SSD after Samsung?

[britechguy]

I have very little doubt that the SSD manufacturing market, like the HDD market, is but a precious few actual manufacturers with many of the brands contracting to them.

There is no way I believe this wikipedia article in terms of "actual manufacture" just based on what's marked as "made in" on the drives I've already used. If I'm not mistaken, most, if not all of them, carried a "Made in China" designation, regardless of the home country of the actual company selling them under its name.

And it's almost certain that many different brands are, in actuality, precisely the same unit with the correct "brand sticker" attached. That's been the case in a very great many market segments, automotive being another example, where the number of actual manufacturing plants is far fewer than the number of brands for a given component. The brands all contract to spec, and the manufacturers only need to meet that spec, but if they exceed it because they're using the same unit for multiple brands, that's no problem. You just can't supply something that does not meet the spec you've agreed to manufacture to. If it not only meets it, but exceeds it, you can ship out what already comes off your line.

 

[Blues]

I don't know about the SSD market but I know in many tech markets there are far fewer companies manufacturing the core components than there are selling them so often these are rebranding with some tweaking to try and push performance up.

 

[alexsmith2709]

To add, many of the flash wafers will be sold to another brand if they dont match the performance required, for example, ones rejected by samsung for being too slow maybe be bought by a manufacturer who is happy selling a slower speed drive.

 

[Diggs]

SSD called KingFast

I wonder if it's any relation to the IDE SSDs I used to buy called Kingspec......

Anbody ever look at all of the SSD brands on Aliexpress? (Walram? Really? Mashup of Walmart and RAM?) I see Kingspec and Kingfast are there sporting different logos.

 

[britechguy]

I wonder if it's any relation to the IDE SSDs I used to buy called Kingspec......

Anbody ever look at all of the SSD brands on Aliexpress? (Walram? Really? Mashup of Walmart and RAM?) I see Kingspec and Kingfast are there sporting different logos.

I am rather amused by SOmnAmbulist (mixed case theirs) brand with a charging bull logo. The dissonance between their name and logo is actually funny. I doubt there were any focus groups involved there!

 

[cypress]

Silicon Power and Samsung. Mostly Silicon Power only had 1 come back bad.

 

[Big Jim]

Happy with
Samsung
Crucial (MX500 or P2)
Adata (SU800)
WD (Blue/Black, SN750, SN850)

We did use patriot Burst in our refurbs for a while and only had 1 failure, prices of the drives above have fallen to within a margin of error so we started to opt for the better drives with DRAM cache or SLC Cache

 

[HCHTech]

I was searching for enterprise SSDs yesterday when the Samsung DCTs I normally use were out of stock, came across the "Dogfish" brand. I wonder what the beer folks have to say about that. They should do a joint marketing effort. "Free 6-pack with every SSD!"*


*limit one per customer

 

[frase]

WD is my first go to for everyday use - performance for gamers/designers would be Samsung M.2 though.

 

[Abramsgunner]

I'm late to the party, but we have been using Kingston Q500's for the last several years (hundreds if not thousands of them) and off the top of my head, I don't remember any failures. Most of the NVME drives I've dealt with are Lenovo OEMs (mostly WD and Samsung so far) and I've had very little trouble out of them.

I've had a few drives appear to degrade... one of those situations where something is wrong but you can't put your finger on it.... so you clone to a new drive and all your troubles go away.

When we first starting installing SSD's, we went with Crucial, and every damn one of them failed within a year.. sudden death. That was awhile back.. I'm sure the quality has gotten better, but it slowed our adoption of SSD's by a year or two.

If I need to build a higher end machine, I liked to use Samsung Pro's... but they have changed their model lineup recently and I'll have to shop around next time I need a premium option.

 

[theobsession]

Ive started using team group and the kingstons