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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Samsung SSD

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASamsung offers solid state drives.N/A

    SanDisk SSD

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASanDisk solid state drives are available and supported by Western Digital since the 2016 acquisition.N/A
    Pricing
    Samsung SSDSanDisk SSD
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    Pricing Offerings
    Samsung SSDSanDisk SSD
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Samsung SSDSanDisk SSD
    Considered Both Products
    Samsung
    Chose Samsung SSD
    Samsung SSDs are definitely one of the leaders if not the main leader in reliability and performance (arguably Intel is similar, depending on use case). There's virtually no downsides compared to other SSDs, except that they are more expensive. I haven't seen a failure of a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Samsung SSD
    Samsung normally performs better. While slightly more expensive, they do seem to perform faster and last longer.
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    Western Digital
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    User Ratings
    Samsung SSDSanDisk SSD
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Samsung SSDSanDisk SSD
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Samsung
    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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    Western Digital
    It is well suited where cost is a concern. And less suited where top quality is a concern. See now cost is less for SanDisk so it is assumed that it could be possible that somehow somewhere quality might be compromised. So a situation where cost doesn't matter, only quality matters, then you must go for another.
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    Pros
    Samsung
    • 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.
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    Western Digital
    • Speed.
    • Durability.
    • Performance.
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    Cons
    Samsung
    • 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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    Western Digital
    • Cost friendly.
    • Better speed.
    • Toughness.
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    Support Rating
    Samsung
    Contacting support was not necessary so far.
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    Western Digital
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Samsung
    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.
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    Western Digital
    As I had mentioned earlier the cost is the main positive point about SSD. The way SanDisk has maintained its cost and provided the performance is next-level. Samsung is also a good one. But it is costly as compared to SanDisk. Hence it will be less preferred. So SanDisk is better.
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    Return on Investment
    Samsung
    • 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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    Western Digital
    • Cost effective.
    • Immediate solution.
    • Better solution.
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