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.

  • Faceman🇦🇺English
    5•8 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•8 months ago

      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