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emersonvier

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Hi all my SSD FAILED, DIED, PASS AWAY, Yes I made some tests to confirm it.

So was Kingston 120GB KINGSTON SV300S37A120G, now I need to buy a new one quickly probably by Amazon with overnight delivery, I am looking for any advice to choose a best one this is only for OS system I have a second one WDC WD40PURZ-85TTDY0 4TB for BI videos.
 
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I currently use Samsung EVO and Crucial MX500 SSDs at work and home, as I have had a Sandisk and Kingston fail in the past( after 3 years), so I stick to these two manufacturers (6+ years on Samsung and about 4 years on Crucial so far). Note that the price difference between a 250/256GB and 500GB is small but note that Samsung 250/256GB SSDs are harder to find, as they are focusing on 500GB and up now.

You could go cheap and get two off-brand SSDs, clone it and have it ready to replace the bad one, then restore from your latest backup.
 
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Of all my SSD failures, Crucial is the brand that failed the most. Because I bought Crucial the most. My opinion on the matter is that everything fails eventually.

That said I have also bought a number of Samsung SSDs more recently and haven't had any of them fail yet.
 
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Have bought and installed 8 Samsung 860 EVO's last 2 years, all good.
Same with 2 Sandisks and 2 Kingstons in last 4 years, all them still going.
Basically no SSD failures in 4 years but I buy Samsung these days...great performance, good warranty, price WAS great but everything is going up lately.
 
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My kingston SSD also died in less than a year. It died a slow death, it just got slower and slower, till it took 15 minutes to boot.
I use a Samsung Evo now. BI and windows really does not need anything bigger than 120GB. You can get an evo 250GB for about $40.00
 
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SouthernYankee said:
I use a Samsun Evo now.
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Same here.
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BI and windows really does not need anything bigger than 120GB.
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True, only a 250 on my BI server.
I bought 500's for 5 clients that have just Win 10 and a few programs, it's their only drive. Most were 5 yr. old 1TB's that were only 15% full after all that time.

This Saturday did a clean install of Win 10 on a i5-3330 with Win 7 / 8GB RAM for a local realtor using the MS Tool on a flash drive; took about 14 minutes to install.
After all updates to Win 10, PC boots up and is waiting for you in 15 seconds!
SSD's make better sense than doubling RAM from 4 to 8 GB, IMO.

EDIT: if the PC was serving Blue Iris I'd also double that RAM to 8.
 
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Hi all, thank you so much for all tips, I bought a 120G SSD SA400S37 120G.

I had o old BI backup but I prefer starting from Zero, I think is a good idea, my is CPU running light now :).
 
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bp2008 said:
I hear there's a new storage-based cryptocurrency coming out too which could potentially inflate disk prices. So yay fuck cryptocurrency.
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A small investment would have bought you endless supply of ssds
 
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