[POLL] What are your favorite storage devices (HDD & SSD) for 2025?

By goretsky
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Preferred storage solutions (HDD and SSD) for 2025  

25 members have voted

  1. 1. Preferred HDD Manufacturer(s)

    • Seagate (includes Samsung HDDs)
      12
    • Toshiba
      3
    • Western Digital (includes Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and SanDisk HDDs)
      13
    • Other: [specify below]
      2

  2. 2. Preferred SSD Manufacturer(s)

    • Acer
      0
    • ADATA (includes XPG)
      0
    • Apacer
      0
    • ASUS
      0
    • Corsair
      0
    • Crucial (includes Micron)
      5
    • Dell
      2
    • Dogfish Technology
      0
    • Eluktronics
      0
    • Emtec
      0
    • Fanxiang
      0
    • G.Skill
      0
    • Gigabyte
      1
    • Hewlett-Packard (includes HyperX)
      0
    • Hyundai
      0
    • Inland (aka Micro Center)
      1
    • Intel (Optane-only; choose Solidigm for SSDs)
      0
    • KingSpec
      0
    • Kingston Technology
      0
    • Kioxia (includes Lite-On and Toshiba)
      2
    • Leven
      0
    • Lexar (aka YTMC)
      1
    • MSI
      0
    • Mushkin
      0
    • MyDigitalSSD
      1
    • Neo Forza (includes Gold Key)
      0
    • Nextorage Japana
      0
    • Optiarc
      0
    • OWC (aka MacSales)
      0
    • Oyen Digital
      0
    • Patriot Memory
      0
    • Pioneer
      0
    • PNY Technologies
      0
    • RITEK (includes RIDATA and Plextor)
      0
    • Sabrent
      1
    • Samsung Electronics
      21
    • Seagate
      3
    • Silicon Power
      0
    • Solidigm (includes Intel SSDs and SK hynix)
      2
    • Super Talent
      0
    • Team Group (includes T-Force)
      0
    • Transcend
      0
    • Western Digital (includes Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and SanDisk)
      4
    • ZTC
      1
    • Other: [specify below]
      0

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Grand Master

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Hello,

This is the new yearly poll for sharing your preferred storage solutions and covers both hard disk drives and solid-state drives.  The previous year's poll can be found here.

Please feel free to describe what you are currently using this year, plus any planned upgrades.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

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I got so many brands of ssds 

8 samsung

3 seagate (2 enterprise 1 consumer)

2 patriot

2 silicon power

1 intel enterprise

1 sk hynix

1wd blue

1 micron

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