1TB SSD Upgrade suggestion?

For the first time ever, I will upgrade my old HDD to an SSD. But, I cannot decide what to get.

I was thinking either the Crucial MX500 or ADATA.

I'm a guy who does multiple things such as gaming, video editing, music, and so on.

I'm thinking of ADATA since it is more budget friendly for me, but I want to know if its worth it.


EDIT: For the curious, the computer i'm upgrading is the Sager NP8173

 

MX500 or 860 EVO.

 

IMO the Samsung 860 EVO would be an excellent choice for the upgrade.They have 5 year limited waranty

I have a 500GB,1TB and a 2TB 860 EVO bought on Black Fiday sales..

The 500GB 860 EVO is currently $78 on Newegg and Amazon

My Crucial MX500 was cheaper but it's not been as good a performer(YMMV)

I also have a Vertex 2 from 2010 and an original SanDisk Extreme that just keep on ticking.

Samsung has a free migration tool that you can install on your old hard drive to move your entire drive to the new SSD if you don't wish to do a new fresh OS installation but a clean OS installation is the way I'd suggest.

 

I think there is a deal somewhere that has the 860 Pro 500GB for $64 or so, very good deal

 

Here's a few benchmarks of my 500GB 860 EVO as the C: boot drive and 42% filled.

The 4K QD1 scores are the ones that are considered most important since about 80% of daily reads and writes are small file observed in Microsofts DiskMon

 

Can you post a CDM with a larger test size such as 16GiB or 32GiB?

 

How about QVO? - "Your first Terabyte SSD."

I see that laptop has a pcie m.2, and for as much as your going to spend on an Evo, you might as well go for a budget nvme.

 

It doesn't

 

Here's the CDM at higher QD on the 500GB 860 EVO plus low and high QD on a 2TB 860 EVO.

The 16 GiB and 32 GiB will be added soon.

I can also do CMD on a 1TB 860 EVO if anyone desires it.

The 860 Pro is a nice SATA III SSD but at double the price per GB without any real performance gain I'd go with the EVO.

If you're in the market for M.2 NVMe then check out the HP EX920 and new EX950.

 

HP's NVME SSDs are pretty good value IMO, I see 480GB ones for the $55 mark all the time off ebay

 

Here are the 860 EVO 2TB 16 GiB and 32 GiB at Low and High QD

Be advised that this SSD has Windows 10 Pro x64 Insider 19H1 build 18334.1 installed.The 19H1(RS6) is slated to become the April 2019 Windows 10 update.

 

OK,here's the 16 GiB and 32 GiB for the 500GB 860 EVO

The OS on this SSD is Windows 10 Pro x64 GA version 1809 build 17763.292

 

HP900 M.2 NVMe SSD:
Sequential Read/Write Speeds up to 2,100 MBps / 1,500 MBps,Reliability (MTBF) 2M hours, and Endurance (TBW) up to 200 TBW
120GB,250GB,500GB

HP920 M.2 NVMe SSD:
Sequential Read/Write Speeds up to 3,200 MBps / 1,800 MBps,Reliability (MTBF) 2M hours, and Endurance (TBW) up to 400 TBW
256GB,512TB,1TB

HP950 M.2 NVMe SSD:
Sequential Read/Write Speeds up to 3,500 MBps / 2,900 MBps,Reliability (MTBF) 2M hours, and Endurance (TBW) up to 1400 TBW
512GB,1TB,2TB

 

Newegg has the 1TB HP EX920 down to $149.99 in their Presidents Day Sale
The 512GB is at $78.99
The 256Gb is at $57.99

Sale is for 4 days

 

That's a nice price. However as a point of clarification, the topic shifted a bit at the end of the first page. Getting back to that, I believe the OP was asking questions about 2.5" SATA SSDs. Hopefully someone reports some sales prices if they notice anything there too.

 

I bought two Kingston ssd off Amazon a while ago, they were inexpensive and they are fast. Are they the fastest? Probably not. Are they a worthy upgrade to HDd drives? You bet! I bought the 500gb for 7o bucks, and the 1 tb drives was 109 if I remember correctly.

 

I did get a Samsung 860 Evo 2.5'' of 1Tb and i'm really happy with it
https://www.samsung.com/uk/memory-storage/860-evo-sata-3-2-5-ssd/MZ-76E1T0BEU/

 

An excellent choice for 2.5" SATA III SSD.

The 1TB may be the sweet spot of the capacity offerings.

I have 500GB.1TB and a 2TB.

My OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS went to SSD heaven yesterday.

 

I got: Samsung 840 Pro 256Gb (OS Disk)
Samsung 840 Evo 500Gb mSata (with a 2.5'' SATA3 adapter)
And a Samsung 860 Evo 1Tb M.2

Running great ever since i owned the P377SM-A from Clevo

 

I expect you run latest firmware.

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Edito...ptible-flash-read-speed-degradation-over-time

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Stora...e-Restoring-Firmware-Only-Partially-Effective

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Stora...toration-Tool-preview-Getting-EVOs-back-speed

 

All my SSD's are up to date

Any hardware i get i always make sure to flash the latest firmware to fix those issues

But yes, my hardware is running great as you can see here:

https://imgur.com/a/nKpuVX2

Samsung 840 Pro was bought in 2015 with my first Clevo the P375SM then passed to the P377SM-A and now the P775DM3-G and running great (been always the OS disk).

The Samsung 850 Evo was bought in beggining of 2016 with the P377SM-A and has been the SSD for gaming ever since too.

The Samsung 860 Evo was bought last year and its function is for data storage and gaming as well.

Heavy daily usage all the way!

And still got 3 external disks too but all HDD's

Here is a printscreen of how My Computer looks in a laptop:

http://prntscr.com/mmgbbj

Yep, thats a laptop lol