Which SSD to choose?

Question

Solid State Drives

Need an SSD for a MacBook Pro mid 2012. The HDD is retired and needs a replacement. Before that, I never used an SSD, I need advice on what is better to choose in terms of reliability and speed. The volume is not less than 250 GB. The price is not more than 7000 rubles. The disk will be the main and only one in the laptop

Answer 1

For normal work, any modern SSD will be an acceptable option. Kingston V300 240Gb, SanDisk Ultra II 240Gb models are suitable for your needs. Both discs are very common and have a 3 year warranty. SSDs have not been shedding for a long time, childhood illnesses are by and large a thing of the past. The chance that an SSD will die is exactly the same as an HDD, so you need to back up important data in any case. In conventional custom SSDs, manufacturers usually claim a write resource of 100-200Tb for 240Gb models. Those. during normal work, when no more than 20-30Gb is written per day, this disk will first become morally obsolete, and only then its resource will be exhausted. There are models of a slightly higher class - the corporate segment. The most affordable model is Kingston KC300, where the recording resource is declared at 530Tb for a 180Gb model. This one has been working for me in the database server under load 24x7 since January 2015. No problem. My advice is to take a popular model with good characteristics (one of the above) and enjoy the fast work. Backups should be done in any case.

Answer 2

I use the A-DATA SP900 drive on my mac mini 2012. I'm happy with everything, the machine just flies when compared to how it worked on the hdd.