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From the Wirecutter: The best consumer-grade SSD (for most people)

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This is a chart from a HNler that compares the currently available SSDs in a nice way:

http://www.productchart.com/ssd_drives/

this site shows them in a better way

http://forre.st/storage#ssd

though atm it appears to have mis-scraped the price on some of them..

Why was the Wirecutter's link not submitted instead? http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-ssds/

It appears that the actual analysis was done by Anandtech.

Why was this submitted at all? There are affiliate links to Amazon, for the "recommended" products.

> There are affiliate links to Amazon, for the "recommended" products.

And? Is that bad or something?

The Wirecutter as shown (to me, at least) that it can be impartial in its judgement of goods. To retain this impartiality, they don't run ads -- they do however link with affiliate links. The saving grace, however, is that most products among a category are sold at Amazon, so the comparison among them should not be affected at all.

I as a reader don't feel their decision on quality is at all influenced by what is on or not on sites with affiliate payouts.

Isn't that true with any site showing ads? If someone clicks the ad the site owner gets paid. Same here.

I am not commenting either way on this authors partiality, just simply pointing out that the logic is flawed regardless.

i've been running Samsung 840 Pro 256GB drives for the last several years, they're excellent. Will be getting an 850 Pro for next build.

He is recommending EVO. Given 840 EVO has problems with read performance deterioration for old data and the fact that Samsung doesn't even acknowledge similar problems with 840 non-EVO (I have one in an ultrabook I don't use too often and was shocked to see <10MB/s read performance on old data as well), I would be very very wary to buy any EVO in the future. We will see if Samsung actually fixed these issues in 850 EVO or they will appear as well.

i wouldn't touch an EVO series drive for any data that mattered. EVOs use TLC NAND which is not worth giving up MLC endurance for a few $ in savings, imo.

Hence "consumer-grade"

their non-pro drives used to be just "830" or "840" previously and classed as "consumer grade" but still MLC.

then they came out with the less durable TLC (EVO) and killed off non-pro MLC drives, re-branding the inferior EVO as the consumer drive.

they also make SLC (enterprise) drives.

840 was the first TLC quickly superseded by 840 EVO.

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