<![CDATA[Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate headquarted in Samsung Town, seoul. It comprises numerous affilated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and the largest south Korean chaebol.
The 500 GB model of this give you the best value for only $156.99. With this drive you get a 3 year warranty, and it has a MTBF of 2,000,000 Hours.
In my review of the SAMSUNG EVO 850 500 GB, I can determine that it is one of the fastest and most reliable drives for the low price. This is all done by the SAMSUNg MGX Micro Controller put in these drives to help give them the boost over other SSDs, and defintly over any traditional hardrive
Specs:
Storage Size – 500GB
Read – 540MBps
Write – 540 MBps
4KB Random Read – 98,000 IOPS
4KB Random Write – 90,000 IOPS
Life Span – 2,000,000 Hours
Overview:
Overall the Samsung EVO 850 500GB is an amazing SSD. The speeds for the drive are outstanding compared to other drives in this price range, with a fair amount of storage space. For a home PC this drive is great, it is just about all the storage you will need, and it is faster than you would ever need for a home pc. In the end I would give this SSD a 7.5/10 for its great speeds and storage for a machine that will mainly be used for surfing the internet and even more intence office tasks.
Note: This review is part of a classroom project.
Resources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147373]]>
Monthly Archives: March 2018
SAMSUNG 860 EVO 1TB SATA III (Review)
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The Samsung 860 Evo is an SSD which contain up to 1TB and will last up to 1.5 million hours. So if you hope of getting this it would last you for a life time. The only problem you would have using this SSD is your limited in space. Using an SSD would last you so much longer than a hard-drive that will only last about 5 years. Not only is the SSD faster but if your trying to make a computer that you move from place to place you would want an SSD. An SSD doesn’t have any moving parts which would break. An SSD is also lighter than a Hard-drive making your case a 1 or 2 pounds lighter.
- Samsung 860 EVO price: $579.98
I love this SSD every time I start up my PC it takes less than a second for it to pull up the home screen. I can open games so much quicker on my SSD than my old hardrive I had a month ago. I able to open some of my favorite games like H1Z1 and Rainbow Six Siege instantly.
Knowing that this SSD will last me over 1.5 million hours I will just keep it when i build my new PC and save over $200. With the extra $200 I could put that into a video card which would have me speed up my gaming. I could play my gaming with High quality graphics instead of medium quality.
- Specs/ Details:
- Up to 550 MB/s Sequential Read
- Up to 520 MB/s Sequential Write
- 3bit MLC
- Capacity: 1,000 GBs = 1TB
- SATA 6 Gb/s Interface, compatible with SATA 3 Gb/s & SATA 1.5 Gb/s interface
- 1.5 Million Hours Reliability (MTBF)
- AES 256-bit Encryption
“Newegg.” Newegg.com, www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147673.
“SSD 860 EVO 2.5’ SATA III 1TB Memory & Storage – MZ-76E1T0B/AM | Samsung US.”Samsung Electronics America, www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/ssd-860-evo-2-5–sata-iii-1tb-mz-76e1t0b-am/.
This review is part of a classroom project.
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Crucial MX500 SSD – Crucial for every PC in need of a SSD *Pun Intended*
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Overall this SSD is well built to start. It is durable (which i would hope for in a $500 SSD). I did a little research, and Crucial’s Website and Amazon both has 4.9-5.0 Stars over close to 200 reviews. They all talk about buying this product to upgrade their speed and I must say it does just that and more. I had a lot of success with this SSD and would definitely recommend it to anyone.
As you can see from the picture it looks as any ordinary SSD, but it feels solid and would be hard to break, this is essential for any SSD considering how expensive they can be.
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Specs:
´Size: 2 TB
´Interface: SATA III (SATA 6.0Gb/s)
´IOPS: Reads 95000 IOPS, Writes 90000 IOPS
´Warranty: $50 for 3 year protection plan and $70 for 4 years
´Access Time: Up to 560 MBps
´Life Span: 1.8 Million Hours
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Overall View: Overall this SSD is well worth 500$. This SSD does everything it says and more, runs great, run FAST, and is a huge upgrade from what I had. To simply put it, it is a well built, great running SSD. If you are looking to upgrade to an SSD I would definitly advise you to check out this SSD.
Note: This review is part of a classroom project.]]>
Review of the Corsair Vengeance LPX
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The Corsair Vengeance LPX specifications:
- 4 GB
- 288 pins
- DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200)
- Single Channel
- Cas latency of 14
- An access time of 5.83 nanoseconds
I bought this RAM at a great price of $60.74 at Newegg! According to PC World they give this a 4.5 out of 5 expert rating. 
Note: This is part of a classroom project]]>
WD Blue SSD Review
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The 500GB model of this memory gives the best value for a price of $129.99 . They offer a 3 year warranty period for parts and labor, and provide a MTBF of up to 1.75 million hours (Tom’s Hardware).
The WD Blue’s performance is far from exciting. As a hard disk drive manufacturer, Western Digital is having trouble keeping up and updating with optimized solid state drives. Many hard drive companies fail to create newer and updated products when they are consumed in an old mindset. Although the 1 TB Blue SSD breaks the 10,000 random read IOPS barrier, the price for this performance is steep (Tom’s Hardware).
Specifications (For 500GB) :
Capacity-500 Gb
Read– 560 MBps
Write– 530 MBps
IOPS Read– 95,000
IOPS Write– 84,000
Overall, the WD Blue is not worth the effort. If you’re paying the cheaper option, you’ll definitely see it in the performance. If you choose the better performance option, the price is ridiculous. It is just another piece of evidence that older companies that get stuck in their old ways are bound to fail.
Note: This review is part of a classroom project.
References:
www.newegg.com
http://www.tomshardware.com
en.wikipedia.org
www.wdc.com]]>
My Review of the 500 GB Western Digital SSD
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The specifications for this SSD are as follows:
- 500 GB capacity
- Read and Write speeds up to 560 and 530 MBps
- Mean time before failure is up to 1.75 million hours
- A limited warranty of 3 years
I bought this SSD off of Newegg for just $129.99!
I would recommend this SSD to anyone looking for a good performance out of their SSD for their time and money!
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Toshiba P300 – The Unexpected Failure
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The P300 can either be a good buy or a bad buy. On Benchmark.com shows that the age months on this hard drive is 29. That means this hard drive will average about more than a 2 year life span, and too bad the warranty ends in 2 years. But by looking at the reviews on Newegg it seems like you will never know if it will last 2 years or 2 weeks.
- Storage: 1 TB
- Speed: 7200 rpm
- Age Months: 28
- Access Time: 4.17ms
- Read/Write: 153 MB/s
- Buffer: 64 MB
Warranty: 2 year limited
After seeing these bipolar reviews I decided to do research for myself. With the product having a 4 egg review seemed weird. It was either a hit or miss, some people said it was great and it lasted more than two years and still working. While 25% of the reviews varied from failing right after the warranty ended, to not working out of the box.
I bought 4 of these hard drives to use a RAID 5 array, and see the failure rate based off of the reviews. All four came in and only 3 worked out of the box. After an hour of setting up, one of the hard drives kept crashing the BIOS. Finally getting it to work, that hard drive lasted for about a week before all three hard drives died. I sent all four drives in for RMA. There online RMA process was simple enough, however it has been 10+ weeks since they received the drives and approved a reward card in exchange and no rewards card has arrived. Whats worse than a bad hard drive? A bad hard drive company.
In conclusion, never buy a hard drive from Toshiba. A lot of people lost TB of information with these drives. Along with everyone else in the reviews… spend your money on a hard drive with a nice warranty from a good company like (Western Digital).
References:
https://www.newegg.com
http://www.toshiba.com/tai/
http://www.kitguru.net
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HP S700 SSD Review
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This is a review of an Hp S700 SSD that is compatible with any motherboard that supports a SATA III port connection. This HP S700 SSD is also a Kaby Lake version. This CPU is to be used for a faster gaming PC. This is an up to date model and it can be used for gaming purposes. While you could use this for lower end use like for home use, it is not the purpose that it is being reviewed for.
The HP S700 solid state drive is manufactured by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company is an American multinational corporation and technology company which focuses on the development of SSD’s (solid state drives), also known as the data storage device of the computer. They are headquartered in Palo Alto, California. They started up their corporation on November 1, 2015. They are widely considered a top drive manufacturer. (HP Wikipedia) For more information about HP see their website.
Specifications:
- 2.5″
- Size: 250Gb
- Max Sequential Read Up to 555 MBps
- Max Sequential Write Up to 515 MBps
- 4KB Random Read Up to 55,000 IOPS
- 4KB Random Write Up to 80,000 IOPS
- Buffer: 32 Mb
- TLC (is able to take in more per cell)
- MTBF Lifespan: 2,000,000 hours
- Warranty: 3 years
With these specifications, it worked really well and really fast for my ASRock H170A-X1 home motherboard. When I found these specifications of the SATA III ports fit my motherboard. This HP S700 SSD was a great find for me to use for my home motherboard. I recommend you get it too, I got mine from Coleton’s Computer Parts distribution company. The final price for it was $69.99 as seen on Newegg.
Note: This review is for a classroom project.
References: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/home.html
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W063A9944
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett_Packard_Enterprise]]>
WD Blue 500GB SSD Review
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- The Good: The WD Blue SSD is faster than any regular hard drive and you can write a ton of data to it before it wears out.
- The Bad: The drive is expensive and doesn’t justify the added cost. It has a short warranty.
About Western
- Western Digital Corporation (commonly referred to as Western Digital and often abbreviated as WDC) is an American computer data storage company and one of the largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers in the world.
Headquarters are located in San Jose, California. - Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970, by Alvin B. Phillips.
- Western Digital employees over 76,000 people.
- Such longevity and experience in the hard drive industry makes this drive even more reliable.
Product Details
- The Western Digital solid state drive is a fast drive. Programs load so much quicker and windows itself loads so much more rapidly with this solid state over most traditional drives.
- The major flaw with SSD’s though is the cost. This drive has a sale price of $158.33. Yes this is much more expensive than traditional spinney drives.
- However our purpose for this specific drive was for an everyday business PC. With a solid state such as this our business PC was able to perform at maximum speeds. Programs on your PC run much faster with a SSD as such.
- This SSD just doesn’t have enough storage nor will it last a long time. Therefore, we recommend having a traditional hard drive which you can keep all your important files on to keep for a very long time. Yet by having this SSD you can run programs at much faster speeds.
WD Blue 500GB Internal SSD Specs
- Capacity: 500GB
- Interface: SATA III 6Gb/s
- Form Factor of 2.5inches or 7mm
- Firmware: X41000WD
- Controller: Marvell 88SS1074
- Sequential read: up to 545MB/s
- Sequential Write: up to 525MB/s
- Random Read IOP’s: up to 100K
- Random Write IOP’s: up to 80K
- Meantime to Failure (MTTF): 1.75Million hours
- Endurance Rating 200TB (Terabytes written)
- WD FIT Lab Certification for compatibility across a wide range of laptops and desktops
- Free downloadable WD SSD Dashboard to monitor the status of the drive and Acronis True Image backup utility
- 3 Year limited warranty
References:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/get-windows-10?step=Win10Question1
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W04ZF1443
https://www.wdc.com/about-wd.html]]>
Seagate Constellation ES.2 HDD Review
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Seagate and Western Digital are commonly known as the top two HDD manufacturers in the industry today. Now while they both have similar problems, I decided to choose a Seagate HDD because they had a lower fail rate. According to the graph on the left, Seagate has five HDD’s that had some of the lowest failure rates, compared to Western Digital’s three HDDs (Backblaze).
Seagate Technology was created in 1978 by Al Shugart, Tom Mitchell, Doug Mahon, Finis Conner and Syed Iftikar. They produce hard drives, hybrid drives, and solid state drives. In 2015, Seagate produced around 45.9 million hard-disk drives including Samsung’s HDD output (Seagate owns Samsung’s HDD production). And in 2017, Seagate‘s annual revenue was $10.77 billion.
Seagate Constellation ES.2 HDD
Specifications:
- Price: $79.99
- Size: 3 TB
- Transfer Rate: 155 MB/s
- MTBF: 1.2 million hours
- Warranty: 5 years
- Speed: 7200 RPM
- Access Time: 4.16ms
- Read/Write Speed: 8.5/9.5MS
- Buffer Size: 64 MB
The Seagate Constellation ES.2 is labeled as a enterprise class hard drive, which means that it is geared more towards business use (company servers, important storage arrays, etc.). The Constellation ES.2 brags about it’s low power consumption use and I was thoroughly surprised when the ES.2’s consumption was 17% less than the ES model. When tested against other models of the Constellation HDD’s read/write sequences, the 3TB SATA model triumphed reaching higher speeds (Storage Review). The price is pretty good for size/capacity with each GB costing .03 cents. Overall, this hard drive can be used for gaming, but would be fully utilized if used for business purposes.
Note: This review is part of a classroom project.
References:
<https://www.backblaze.com>
<https://www.newegg.com>
<https://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/>
<http://www.storagereview.com>
<https://en.wikipedia.org>
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