Want To Buy a 1 TB SSD

I have dual drives on my Asus ROG 17 in gaming laptop one is a 238 GiB WD SSD speed 15.8 Gb/s running Mint 22.1 at present ....

2nd drive is a Seagate 931.51 GiB speed 6.0 Gb/s and is currently running Zorin 17.2 and used for large storage files mostly videos .... pictures and gaming .....

I use both drives every day but as you can see the speed difference is rather large .....

My plan is to buy a SSD 1 TB 2.5 and put Mint 22.1 on it moving games ..... and videos to it ..... using the 238 GB SSD already installed for Zorin 17.2 and pictures and some videos .....

I have 2 problems ..... availability and money ..... we live on a set income with no means to make additional money so that is kinda important .... the availability is also a problem as we don't have a great variety available as you do in the US or other countries .....

I am currently looking at 3 different 1 TB SSD's :

WD Blue
WD Green
Samsung - 860/870 EVO

Does anyone have a preference on the above units or another one that I can do some research on as to availability and price ..... keeping in mind price being pretty much in line with the 3 above ....

It is not an emergency my drive is not crashing or anything .....

Thanks for any help you may supply .... the largest outlet or rather on-line store I have available is Lazada .... sorry I can't supply a link doesn't seem to work ....

Guess it might help to give a price range .... $60-80 US

It's a bit more expensive in Denmark. IT cost ~129.59 on my favorite buy computer stuff page.

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I prefer SATA SSD for ease of fitting:

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WD Blue if you can't get WD Black.


Yes I see that Crucial is getting great reviews along with Samsung #1 .... WD #2 .... and even Kingston #5 ..... Crucial is either 3 or 4 depending on who gives the SSD ratings ....

Yes I was looking at WD Blue .... Green only has a 3 year warranty where as Blue carries a 5 year warranty I believe ....

Okay, I take a Look here on Amazon Germany and find spontaneous these Drives:

  • Crucial BX500 SATA SSD 1TB for 61,99€
  • WD Blue SATA SSD 1TB for 65,90€
  • WD Black NVME SSD 1TB for 68,90€
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My choice would be the Samsung EVO.

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Well I've made my decision I'm going with the Samsung EVO ..... for two reasons ....

Better specs ..... it almost tied with the WD Blue
Available locally ..... don't have to have it shipped they have it in stock .....

BUT .... I have to pay more than I wanted .... $95.96 a far cry from my original budget .... the WD Blue was a bit cheaper but the EVO is a bit faster and of all the comparisons I read online Samsung is listed as the #1 manufacture of SSD drives .....

The Mrs goes to pick it up today because they had to ship it over night from Manila to Octagon the computer store ....

So now begins the task of setting up and swapping out the drives ...... making two new back-up using Rescuezilla but I'm thinking of using Gparted to clone the new drive and install Mint on it ..... I will also have to shrink Zorin a bit 15 GB to fit it on the 238 GB SSD already on my computer ..... think I may also use Gparted to do that too ....

A big thanks to everyone that participated in this thread all of your answers were very helpful .....

Hope to see you folks after I get done "if the good lord willing and the creek don't rise" ..... LOL

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You going to see a way faster computer with that EVO. :slight_smile: I remember the first time I switched from HDD. It's a notable speed improvement.

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Yeah that moment i won't forget either.

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My old computer came with 2-300GB hard drives, with a total of 600GB of space. It doesn't take that much time to fill all that space up. When I was hurtin for storage space, I made the switch to a 512GB SSD.

People told me that it was going to be faster, well I didn't know how fast. I went from taking a minute and a half to boot into the OS, to about 25 seconds! The luxury I felt was real, so you know what I did right? I got another one! HAHA

I rocked that 1TB of total space, until I got my new computer, which has NVME drives. You know how fast 3400MB/s gets you? Booting into the OS in about 10-15 seconds. Storage has gotten so fast, no matter how manufactures try to push the new Gen 4 Gen 5 speeds, its not about speed anymore IMO.

Once you got fast storage, IMO, its now about how much of it you get. And surprising enough, storage still costs a lot once you go beyond 1TB. I've been looking at costs, especially on external drives, and your still going to pay a good amount for 2TB and beyond, fast storage aint cheap!

You made a great choice! I currently have a Samsung 860 EVO that I turned into an external drive, by sticking it in an enclosure, its been serving me very well. But I need to upgrade to a larger capacity.

I can say without a shadow of a doubt, you made a great choice. The drive is going to surprise you with its speed. And with SSD's, you can forget about bad sectors, especially with a Linux file structure system.

Be prepared to boot into your OS within 20-seconds. Be prepared to enjoy a larger storage capacity. And SSD's do what is called an auto trim system, it basically takes care of itself, while remaining a speedy storage solution.

And I remember when I got my Samsung drive, people told me that the drive was going to die once it reached its 10-year warranty. Guess what? My Samsung SSD is 15-years old, and is still working perfectly! How about that!

Now Samsung in the NVME period, appears to have lowered their warranty to 5-years, but thats still decent! Its a better warranty then mechanical hard drives ever got. Many of the cheap HDD's would die in a year or so, after the bad sector worm ate them for lunch.

Again, wise choice Frog, I am happy for you!

PS: Quality costs money indeed.


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In case you missed the news awhile back Samsung is now owned by Seagate. It might be different for spindle drives, but Samsung was my first choice of spindle drive until Seagate bought them out. This is no reflection on SSD, just spindle drives. My current choice is WD Black.

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Agreed! I always go with WD Black drives, I feel like they are the best for the money. My MSI computer came with a WD 1TB NVME drive. And then I upgraded my storage space to 2TB, when I bought my WD Black 1TB NVME drive, to stick in the 2nd M.2 slot.

But my current external drive is a Samsung 1TB 860 EVO, I'll be upgrading that to a WD Black 2TB external drive. The price is a little higher then I'd like for them, but I'll make it work.


Seagate has good hdd's in the past so i don't know what is wrong with that ? Samsung is a great brand too. All my SSD's and NVME drives are from samsung and none of them failed me.

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Seagate is not the same company it was in the 90's. Back in the 90's, the quality of Seagate mechanical drives, were failing on a consistent basis. This is what caused me to switch brands to Western Digital, before we entered Y2K bug period.

Seagate has gotten better since the Samsung merger.


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Seagate left a bad taste in my mouth, early 2000’s (after 2002). I was browsing in my lunch break and read PVR manufacturers were choosing Seagate as their preferred drive manufacturer. Based on this information I purchased my first Seagate drive with 5 year warranty. It failed just passed the 3 year mark. I was told I had to return the faulty drive for a replacement, and here's the rub, they weren't going to replace with a new drive but a reconditioned one. That is when I changed to Samsung. And then WD.

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That would make me angry if that would happen to me .

If you are following this thread you may or mayn't have noticed I've been MIA but I am starting a new post explaining why and asking for help ..... I am going to abandon this thread .....

Thanks for all your help .....