Questions about SSD....help me choose one...

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Tried to do some research but I ended up more confused..maybe some site were pushing some brands against other brands...so I still do not know......hahaha... I do not know if I should rank my choices into this:
Corsair>Sandisk>Crucial>Kingston>A-Data......pls help me here...tia

It wouldn't matter. Benchmarks aren't absolute after all and they simply give you a theoretical picture on what it's like. You'd be spitting hairs trying to differentiate 500MB/s reads from 300MB/s reads using day-to-day activities such as opening your browser, etc. So unless you're trying to build a 5-second start-up machine, don't fret over the selections and just choose on price.

I do recommend you purchase from the bigger ones -- the ones that are vertically integrated is because it's the only way to survive in an environment that's quickly shifting into a commodity. Look at the traditional hard drives? How many of them are left? Western Digital and Seagate has duopolized more than 85% of the market.

The ones with the biggest economies of scale will survive and this will mainly be four brands: Sandisk, Samsung, Intel, and Crucial. Sandisk and Intel-Micron Crucial are one of the world's biggest NAND suppliers and readily supply OEM computer manufacturers. Intel-Micron has a reputation for being the SSD of choice of datacenters. Samsung, being the giant they are, isn't just one of the world's biggest NAND suppliers (they manufacture 40% of the world's NAND flash) but manufacture everything else from controllers, firmware, etc. in-house.

a reliable data storage comapared to regular hdd which is prone to disk failure.

Parang copy-paste lang sa Wikipedia. Contrary to popular opinion, SSDs can also fail. It's just the removal of "mechanical failure rates" means it's generally more reliable than platter-based hdds. And <5% disk failure rates globally isn't what we call "prone".