Kingston SSD vs. Samsung SSD

I think I cannot recommend it at all since our bad experience. There is no good scenario for an SSD which fails after 13 days of work.

They are well suited in any area of computing storage needs that require speed, reliability, ease of management (with their Magician software), and good pricing is desired (i.e. day-to-day end-user desktop computer usage to HA, always-on SAN storage). Your end-users particularly will thank you for a Samsung SSD upgrade, especially if their machine is running off a hard drive, currently.

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• KC3000 read/write speed
• Average price
• 4TB size

• Incredibly fast response times. Accessing files and opening large programs like Photoshop have never been faster.
• Samsung Magician software can be combined with your computers available RAM to increase the SSD performance.
• It's reliable. Most standard hard drives are prone to failure, partitioning problems, and increased lag times. Samsung SSD is not.

Incentivized

• In my experience, it failed quickly, there is huge room to improve reliability...

• The QVO models of their drives suffer performance loss. Now, that is just inherent to the use of QLC NAND, but they could offset this by adding more fast cache to those drives.
• I would love to see Samsung bring enterprise-style hot-swappable 2.5" PCIe drives to a more mainstream market. One of my biggest reasons for not going with NVMe drives in my latest production storage server was the cost-prohibitive nature of enterprise-grade hot-swappable NVMe drives.
• I have been sitting here for 15 minutes trying to think of a 3rd improvement I'd like to see Samsung make to their SSDs. I cannot think of anything realistic to add. It was hard enough to come up with the first two. They are just really good all-around.

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Contacting support was not necessary so far.

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Samsung PRO series never failed in our equipments this is why we thought SSDs today are very reliable. It is not true for the Kingstons

WIth a one vendor solution you are most likely getting Samsung SSD's (unless its intel or Kioxia or Micron), but from a performance and reliability standpoint we have seen very good results with Samsung ssd's.

Incentivized

• Negative impact, since it failed

• As developers, we improve our productivity with less wasting time booting our notebooks, and also when we finish the compilation of our projects in less time. Overall Samsung's SSD disks offer a better user experience.

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