Mushkin vs Crucial SSDs

[Nobody]

Can anyone give me specifics on their 1T ssds? I am looking to get one of the them, maybe even a 2T. Which is faster and better, or worth more for the money?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Best bang for buck right now is Crucial MX300 series; $69 for 275GB

Otherwise look at Samsung 750 / 850 EVO ones.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Crucial definitely over Mushkin. They are pretty much between the top leaders in SSDs using stuff from their own parent companies - Micron chips and Marvell controllers.

As Bad-Motha told the MX300 is a great choice giving a extra 35 GB over other brands.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well considering top brands want around that 60-70 range for a 120GB or so; yea 275GB for that is quite good; and the MX300 is quite decent.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Well yes, I was trying to match it to common brand 240GB ones (Kingston, OZC). A extra 35 GB makes everyone happy.

I also "own a Crucial", though sticker says its ADATA, from inside is 100% identical to Crucial M550. Works great. Yay to rebranding.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I doubt that; ADATA use their own pulled from OEM market stuff; many of theirs are simply junk; and their mainly use SandForce, which u should avoid like the plague. ADATA has offered some good stuff for the lower-end market; but for most part, ADATA, PNY, SuperTalent; I would avoid.

Crucial MX300 is also good cause it's newer 3D-NAND; similar to what Samsung is using now.

Crucial branded products only use Micro chips. But Crucial does not rebrand ANYTHING.
Now just cause u may find another SSD with similar chips or controllers as a Crucial SSD or RAM; doesn't mean it's rebranded, trust me.

Micron is like Samsung in some ways; they are a major brand that actually produce their own chips to go in many devices; SSDs, RAM; HDDs, GPU VRAM, Phones, Tablets, SD/MicroSD and other forms of USB Flash as well... many brands out there rarely make alot of their owns stuff when it comes to the chips. Many brands blue-print a product and maybe the general board layout, and such; but the chips/controllers/chipsets come from one of the few major brands out there who make them.

[Nobody]

I'm not looking at a boot drive, rather a storage drive. Which is why I said one teraybyte. I know Samsung has some excellent ssds around 1-2t but they're 500 plus while other companies drop onsale a lot.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I wouldn't use an SSD for storage; why would you?
Use SSD for anything where Speed is a real need.
OS, Apps, Game Clients, Photoshop, Video Editing, Rendering software, CAD.
and even Games; provided you have room for them and also for games where that game will actually benefit alot from being on SSD instead of a HDD.

SSDs don't like to lay idle and rarely used; it's just not a good idea.

Get a WD Purple or Black 2 or 4 TB for Storage. Something along those lines.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Well yes, I was told to avoid ADATA, except one model which I actually own. I would probably go for a other brand/model by now, but when I got it a year ago, it was the most reasonably priced MLC drive.

Techreport made a review on this, the third pic compares it exactly to the Crucial M550, can you tell the difference which is which? I couldn't

http://techreport.com/review/26252/adata-premier-pro-sp920-solid-state-drive-reviewed

And yupp, there is no need to use SSD for Storage, unless you have a game which you play very often and loading times are a way too long for you. But OS benefits from it greatly, I have booting time of 7-8 seconds.

Of course you can if you have the buck and use a small SSD for OS and a big one for games.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Cheap SSDs are just made poorly; not made to last; use cheap parts; just thrown together.
And lack warranty.

THAT is where the differences are.

Overall, SATA is SATA; you generally won't see a huge difference in timing/wait when compared to say a 300mbps SSD vs a 550mbps SSD

But another thing is that; if a slower SSD of say 300mbps READ; well you can be assurred that is the highest (if that) when it comes to WRITE. So buying say a 550mbps rated SSD for SATA-III is much better; because you also get a much higher write speed.

Think of it this way.

Can you tell a huge difference between an ISP; 50mbps -vs- 100mbps download speeds?
Not really. Unless you are downloading huge files and comparing those times alot.
Now consider a Cable ISP; most have high downloads, slow uploads.
Can you tell the difference between 1mbps -vs- 10mbps Upload; sure can; and Upload helps quite a bit anytime you wish to upload something online; like to Cloud, Facebook, Dropbox; etc...

Think of the WRITE speed on an SSD in this way. The SSD read will generally be fairly decent; they all are really when compare to any HDD out there.

But high WRITE speed and IOPS helps much more overall.

[Nobody]

I already own 3 terabytes worth of storage across a firecuda and a whatever seagate I bought five years ago, I am just hoping to move more open work game onto it while I traverse the world. My dad has the same pc as I do with mine being the 2600k and his the 6700k, but he also has a samsung ssd. I can feel the difference in how the games move on his ssd vs my sshd, and it feels more fluid. There is no hitching or Stuttering of any sort. Maybe I'll hold out another year or two, but sooner or later hdds are gonna get pushed out because of how fast ssds are.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

引用自 Daddy UwU：

I already own 3 terabytes worth of storage across a firecuda and a whatever seagate I bought five years ago, I am just hoping to move more open work game onto it while I traverse the world. My dad has the same pc as I do with mine being the 2600k and his the 6700k, but he also has a samsung ssd. I can feel the difference in how the games move on his ssd vs my sshd, and it feels more fluid. There is no hitching or Stuttering of any sort. Maybe I'll hold out another year or two, but sooner or later hdds are gonna get pushed out because of how fast ssds are.

I agree; something like ADATA or other cheaper Mushkin, OCZ, Kingston SSDs;
vs say the more robust ones from say Crucial, Intel, Samsung; you can feel the differences.
For me; Samsung 850 EVO 500GB at around the $150 range is a bargain I can do.

It's well worth it.

Mushkin has a wide range of SSDs too; so there is that; but ADATA, OCZ, Kingston, I would seriously just avoid.

Crucial MX300 series is most more robust and on-par with Samsung 850 EVO series.
Above and beyond those older, cheaper ones Crucial had months or years ago.

[Nobody]

引用自 Bad-Motha：

引用自 Daddy UwU：

I already own 3 terabytes worth of storage across a firecuda and a whatever seagate I bought five years ago, I am just hoping to move more open work game onto it while I traverse the world. My dad has the same pc as I do with mine being the 2600k and his the 6700k, but he also has a samsung ssd. I can feel the difference in how the games move on his ssd vs my sshd, and it feels more fluid. There is no hitching or Stuttering of any sort. Maybe I'll hold out another year or two, but sooner or later hdds are gonna get pushed out because of how fast ssds are.

I agree; something like ADATA or other cheaper Mushkin, OCZ, Kingston SSDs;
vs say the more robust ones from say Crucial, Intel, Samsung; you can feel the differences.
For me; Samsung 850 EVO 500GB at around the $150 range is a bargain I can do.

It's well worth it.

Mushkin has a wide range of SSDs too; so there is that; but ADATA, OCZ, Kingston, I would seriously just avoid.

Crucial MX300 series is most more robust and on-par with Samsung 850 EVO series.
Above and beyond those older, cheaper ones Crucial had months or years ago.

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX300-750GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B01DUNLMUU Well this isn't a bad deal, wish it was a full 1000 though

[Nobody]

http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/ct2050mx300ssd1
Y'all need to stop me

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes ATM (and without any sales going on); the Samsung 850 EVO 500GB and Crucial MX300 750GB are roughly same price; so take your pick; both are very good.

Where as Crucial MX300 1.1TB vs Samsung 850 EVO 1TB; is a difference of around $65-75 in pricing between those two.

So generally yes; any of the Crucial MX300 series are good bang for buck.

[Nobody]

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX300-Internal-Solid-State/dp/B01KKZLX46?ref_=nav_signin&
This could be on my door by Monday but I can't honestly drop $500 right now. Honestly if I could afford it I'd rather go intel with their pci storage but oh my gosh, why can't they make these in black