Cheap, but reliable SSDs?

I want to upgrade some of my older machines with some new, high(er) capacity SSDs (SATA and nvme). I don’t need super high speeds, just something in the TB range in terms of storage.

Problem is, there’s so much garbage out there, I can’t really tell, which SSD is inexpensive and reliable and which is just utter garbage.

I thought about buying new, but last gen Samsung/WD SSDs.

Intenso and Fanxiang both seem to have been around for a few years, but reviews seem to be mixed.

pescetarian,
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All SSD it’s lottery, it doesn’t matter WD, Kingdian or something else… And all them from China, don’t de nationalist… IPhone made in China! So what?!

pineapplelover,

Crucial and wd are usually the cheapest and they’re reputable

Moonrise2473,

I noticed that the prices of SSD almost doubled in the last months. I bought a 2tb nvme for 89 euro and now it requires almost the double

WD and Seagate are using the AI hype as an excuse to increase prices on both SSD and HDD. They say AI bros are buying too many drives to store the models. I find this not really believable. Normal models are a few hundred GB, I don’t think that they’re pushing so much the demand

TheDorkfromYork,

My understanding is that flash was under ordered so SSD prices will be high for a long while.

jjlinux,

Inland, Sabrent, XPG and PNY are all relatively inexpensive and very solid options for NVMe.

AtariDump,

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    ColonelPanic,

    They did. Cheap and reliable

    AtariDump,

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    HowManyNimons,

    We don’t like that you’re telling OP to pick two when they’ve already picked two.

    lemmyingly,

    I have a friend who’s in the computer repair business. He uses PNY drives because out of the hundreds he’s installed, he’s yet to see one come back with a faulty drive, unlike some of the other brands he’s tried like Kingston. He gets the base size and base speed drives as his customers tend not to use a lot of data.

    possiblylinux127,

    I have two PHY drives that I installed in a server. They work just fine and I have no complaints

    Paragone,

    Reliability’s kinda high on my priority-list.

    Try Samsung.

    Nowadays I can’t imagine using SATA for anything but archival storage ( get the fastest NVMe you can for your operating-system, and be stunned by how much quicker your machine is ).

    Last time I was digging into stats, the reliability-rate for Samsung devices was much higher than that of Western Digital,

    and the off-brands … often are a bit of a bad-joke, for reliability ( Adata & Kingston, I’m looking at you, and will never trust such scum again ).

    just my experience/opinion, is all.

    possiblylinux127,

    If you put a sata drives in raid they can be pretty fast

    Adderbox76,

    I used Crucial brand in both my desktop and my laptop upgrades a few years ago (I don’t remember the exact model…mx500 maybe?) And I haven’t had a single issue.

    Absolutely rock-solid.

    DarkThoughts,

    Crucial MX 500 & Samsung 870 Evo are reliable / good & "cheap" SATA SSDs. For NVMe there's the WD Blue SN570 and the Kioxia Exceria G2 but keep in mind that they tend to have smaller storage sizes too and depending on your use case you might not really notice a performance difference between SATA and NVMe anyway.
    Personally, I stay away from all native Chinese products. They tend to have terrible quality and fall apart quickly. I'm sure there's exceptions here and there but wading through all the garbage and having to buy twice does not seem worth it and I rather support that country as little as possible anyway.

    ArtikBanana,

    Just be aware that for a period of time the MX 500 had many reports of high failure rate. Not sure if it was due to a change of components or firmware.
    Example post about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/whr5ek/crucial_mx500_historically_good_recent_batches/
    An article (In Portuguese).
    And another post about it.

    lemmyingly,

    I had one around 2012-2013 and it failed on me. I had issues with it throughout its life but I didn’t realise it was the drive until I upgraded to a Samsung.

    ArtikBanana, (edited )

    Personally I use Newmaxx’s site and spreadsheet which has more indepth information about the SSDs like their controllers and NAND type - https://borecraft.com/
    You can also check their subreddit for some reviews and such.
    That and some stats from Backblaze and general reviews.
    And I use price trackers to make sure I’m getting a good price.

    I don’t like going by specific brands, because they all have some less ideal models and some of them tend to change some of the components after a while.

    I_Miss_Daniel,
    I_Miss_Daniel avatar

    Not Sandisk. Had several just die with no recovery possible.
    Kingston had a few failures but probably OK as a cheap one.
    Only had one Samsung crash, so mostly sell those despite the premium these days.

    lemmyingly,

    I had a friend who had a SanDisk and it also failed. I also think SanDisk thumb drives suck.

    I’ve seen many Kingston drives at work fail, which I think is interesting because their thumb drives are some of the best. Actual USB 3 speeds and built well.

    corsicanguppy,

    When I needed them, Crucial bent over backwards for a single sale.

    I’ve given them 100% of my business since for any solid-state stuff.

    I’m just one internet dood but please include them in your list of candidates. They have several tiers of speed and resilience, and I’d love to see them get more business.

    ponchow8NC,

    Yeah their MX series have been nice to me

    Faceman2K23,
    @Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    I’ve had good luck with WD Blue NVME (SN550)

    I’ve put several of those into machines at work and have had years without an issue. I’m also running a WD Blue SN550 1TB in my server as one of the caches, 25000 hours power on time, >100TB written, temperatures way higher than they should be and still over 93% health remaining according to smart.

    Moonrise2473,

    I’m also using that drive but it likes to stay toasty, it’s always in a 60-65° C range even with a low activity

    I don’t really like that. Bought an heatsink and it improved a bit

    BillDaCatt,

    I buy Samsung SSDs when I can afford them, Kingston when money is tight. Samsung is faster, especially their NVME drives. Both have been very reliable for me.

    Whirling_Cloudburst,

    Teamgroup makes decent enough products.

    possiblylinux127,

    I bought one of there drives and it died very young. 0/10 can’t recommend

    Moonrise2473,

    Bought two and one of those died within 72 hours.

    It was really weird, first it became read-only, then it zeroed by itself, but it still was read-only, no program was able to write on it, even aban (dban is dead)

    Now the replacement has more than 2 years but i downgraded it in a low activity server

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