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BrianHG:
Well, my old laptop 5600rpm HD is failing according to Windows.
What brand SSD should I get.
I need 960gb or 1tb.
I don't want a junk name brand.
I have an ~80$ cad budget.
Some true big name brands are more expensive.
Some unknown brands are cheaper.

wraper:
Brand name is secondary as long as it's not a no-name-ish garbage. You should avoid QLC, and especially PLC NAND (not available yet but will be very soon). Also avoid DRAMless SSD. If you want SATA drive (you did not mention what, NVMe would be better is there is a slot), performance will be about the same for the vast majority of SSD except bottom end DRAMless stuff.

BrianHG:

--- Quote from: wraper on July 16, 2024, 02:24:57 pm ---Brand name is secondary as long as it's not a no-name-ish garbage. You should avoid QLC, and especially PLC NAND (not available yet but will be very soon). Also avoid DRAMless SSD. If you want SATA drive (you did not mention what, NVMe would be better is there is a slot), performance will be about the same for the vast majority of SSD except bottom end DRAMless stuff.

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Finding out which drives are TLC is easy.
Finding out if they have dram cache is a problem.

For example, this drive: SanDisk SSD Plus 1TB Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 535 MB/s - SDSSDA-1T00-G26,  85$ CAD.

All the spec says is nCache2.0.
Is this dram, or, running a portion of the flash in SLC mode, then re-writing the data in TLC mode?

DavidAlfa:
Samsung evo 870 will do great, more expensive than others but worths every cent.
Had my 850 for almost 10 years, zero issues, upgraded to a much faster nvme SN850X.

Nowadays everything is TLC or QLC, you'll be having a hard time finding 1TB SLC if existing at all.

The key for SSD longevity, apart from staying away from random brands, is to have as many free space as possible so the wear leveling does its job, ideally about 50%.
It won't last as long if you fill it to 90%.
So if you need 1TB to use 850GB, better save a bit more and get 2TB.

If you download lots of stuff or use P2P/torrent, I strongly suggest to get a DVD-hdd adapter (It'll replace your optical drive) and get a cheap HDD just for downloads.

wraper:

--- Quote ---Finding out if they have dram cache is a problem.
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I guess the easiest would be finding a teardown pictures/video to see if there is a DRAM chip. Did not look on SATA SSDs for a long time, most of what's sold now seems to be DRAMless junk (well, performance is OK for SATA) and ones with DRAM are more expensive than good NVMe with DRAM. Are you sure your laptop does not have NVMe slot? Most of 2015+ laptops have it even if came with HDD.

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