Samsung 830 vs Kingston HyperX 3K

[BecauseScience]

I need to make a decision on this in the next day. I'm in crunch time at work. I don't have a lot of time to google and read reviews.

Speed is secondary to reliability although I don't want a drive that degrades to crap performance after a long period of use. The drive would be used with trim. I haven't been able to find the write cycles on the Samsung nand. Maybe it was in the Anandtech 830 article and I missed it...?

 

[ZodaEX]

For reliabilty get the samsung. They are proven drives and no one has a better reliability record than samsung.

 

[BecauseScience]

Only one reply. I guess that means everyone else agreed with ZodaEx.

 

[Duff76]

I do. Just got a samsung myself.

 

[MissJ84]

What size? If you're going with a 256GB, hurry up and grab this for $270 with promo code EMCNENJ49
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147164

 

[Xeth]

According to this spec sheet http://www.samsung.com/us/business/oem-solutions/pdfs/PM830_MCE_Product Overview.pdf the write endurance for a 256GB is 625TB.

 

[MissJ84]

According to this spec sheet http://www.samsung.com/us/business/oem-solutions/pdfs/PM830_MCE_Product Overview.pdf the write endurance for a 256GB is 625TB.

That's for the msata, the 2.5 shows 1250TB. Anyway, I'm sure it's either 3000 or 5000 write cycles, and there are only a handful that are rated for 5k. In the end it's really not going to matter for any regular user.

 

[blinkenflamingo]

I'd go for the Samsung too. Im going to pick one up for my NAS system for the home directories.

 

[BecauseScience]

Advice taken. I ordered two Samsung's. I'll have to refuse the package arriving today with the Kingston drives. The shipment also contains an Ivy i7 and the rest of the parts for this build. Replacements probably won't arrive until Monday or Tuesday.