On Friday 13 December 2019 04:53:53 pm William Morder via trinity-users wrote:
> On Friday 13 December 2019 14:25:09 Michael wrote:
> > On Friday 13 December 2019 03:05:18 pm William Morder via trinity-users
>
> Any recommendations on best SSDs (most dependable, best value, etc.) would
> be welcome, as I only know them by reputation, not from experience.

Last I bought was an m.2(Samsung 970 EVO SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe), so that's no 
help for you :(  I use this when buying a new drive:

https://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/ssd.html

But it's now hard to filter out form factor (I'm assuming you're looking for 
SATA 6 Gbit/s not m.2), and actually that looks like it's only m.2 form 
factor now.

Try this:

https://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/hdd-mega-page.html

Select SSD, sort by Disk Mark and drop below ???

Nevermind, PassMark has made that completely useless :(!

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If you just want one that will do you well, try this for $60:

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-500GB-Internal-MZ-76E500B-AM/dp/B0781Z7Y3S

If you can afford $50 more, bump it up to the 1TB version...

Best, and hope that helps,
Michael

PS:  Do get a SATA 6 Gbit/s SSD even if you MB only has SATA 3 Gbit/s 
connections, stupidly that about doubles the transfer speeds.  (I'll guess 
the 3 Gbit/s SSDs have crappy internals, 'cause they can.)