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Considering the importance of one's data, the hassle of dealing with failed drives, the time to restore, etc... personally I wouldn't risk my setup on any but the makers with the best reputation. Trying to save a few $$ isn't worth avoidable headaches.

Intel, SanDisk, Samsung, and Crucial have the best reputations. (I don't have any Samsung drives, but I have some of the other 3. I've had only 1 failure in the last 7 years... an Intel which was promptly replace under warranty.... and even that one was avoidable... a firmware update I didn't know about until too late.)

FWIW....
 
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Intel is great but too slow and expensive; Crucial (Micron) is a bit better performing and currently has the best price/performance ratio; Samsung is the best performing but their most reliable PRO series is most expensive; SanDisk has very poor performance in the budget category.
 
I just backup everything on Dropbox and an external hard drive. When I was trading full time, I had my set up on two PCs. I don;t worry to much after that.
 
rmorse said:
I just backup everything on Dropbox and an external hard drive. When I was trading full time, I had my set up on two PCs. I don;t worry to much after that.
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Backups are very important... takes minutes to restore when needed vs. "hours/days" to restore from scratch.... not to mention the possibility of losing important data forever.

However, I choose to avoid having to restore if possible... and one of those ways is limiting SSD choices to perceived "best and most reliable" ones. If those cost a few $$ more than "newer, bargain/budget" models... I think the extra price is well spent.
 
The Non-Pro Samsung EVO 850 comes with a 5 year warranty, which is 1-2 years more than the rest of them. Plus, 850 EVO series have built in encryption. Pretty nice deals as well nowadays
 
I have upgraded all my systems to Samsung SSD's (14 total) never a failure, albeit 4 ea are new systems with only a couple of months running time... I agree, name brand SSD's are the way to go... (prior to Samsung entering the market I installed 1st, 2nd, 3rd generation Intels (none of them failed either, usually only upgraded due to size, 80gb seemed enough for op system in the day), now with gDrive, OneDrive, DropBox and other inexpensive storage options... 256 SSD's have become my minimum SSD size.

Regarding Backup of Data: gDrive, DropBox, OneDrive are fine for mirroring-syncing across multiple computers. It doesn't completely protect from accidental folder/file deletions on your computer, they are gone from the cloud as well... That is were AWS-S3 and AWS-Glacier (low cost archive storage) are wonderful backup options... for the most precious of files...

I haven't tried storing a system image and restoring it from AWS-S3 yet... but will soon be testing that out as I set up my wife's office network. I have just way tooo many disks lying around... going to push as much off the desk and on the cloud as possible...

3-2-1 backup rule is much simpler these days to accomplish with NAS/cloud backup & mirroring... I don't miss those floppy days's or those 5+ set DVD backups at all...
 
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My setup

OS/Apps 2 x 512GB Intel Skull SSDs via Raid1 (disk mirroring)

1 Internal Black Western Digital 4TB SATA
1 Hot Swap Bay to backip the internal one with an identical drive, the backup is taken out and stored in a secured location.

Onedrive Office 365 subscription which gives me 1TB of online storage for quick access to pictures, porn, music and holy grails from all devices.

Call me dramatic but aside from a loved one getting sick/ill losing important data is right below it, what a horrible feeling.

Be smart, backup regularly and intelligently.
 
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My Current Setup

(2) Intel 256GB Raid 1 (OS)
(2) Segate 3TB SATA Raid 1 (Apps, Data, Music, and Movies)
(1) WD 3TB Network Drive (Mirrors the other 3TB)

I learned about 7 years ago what not having a current backup can feel like.
Never again ;)
 
DarthSidious said:
The Non-Pro Samsung EVO 850 comes with a 5 year warranty, which is 1-2 years more than the rest of them. Plus, 850 EVO series have built in encryption. Pretty nice deals as well nowadays
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Encryption part is a big deal since with other lower end budget SSDs, TrueCrypt won't work. This for me puts Samsung EVO above the competition, I would not want sensitive data to be without encryption.
 
I wouldn't trust Samsung after the EVO fiasco. Its not even about the mistake but how they dealt with the issue
 
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