Storage Solutions Reliability of small SSD brands

Pimpom

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Inexpensive re-branded "Indian" SSDs like those from EVM, Ant Esports, Zebronics, etc. have been around for some time. Is anyone here using or have used them? Can you share your experience, not only about performance, but also about reliability and durability?
 

User Review - eVM SSD - 2.5" SATA 1 TB

This is not really going to be a detailed review, since I don't have the tools or the knowhow to do a detailed review. I had been seeing this SSD on onlyssd.com for a while now. This is the cheapest 1 TB SSD currently available online. It cost me only 4099. My primary purpose for this SSD is...
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YMMV, but if you value your data then you are better off with well known brands
 
ibose said:

User Review - eVM SSD - 2.5" SATA 1 TB

This is not really going to be a detailed review, since I don't have the tools or the knowhow to do a detailed review. I had been seeing this SSD on onlyssd.com for a while now. This is the cheapest 1 TB SSD currently available online. It cost me only 4099. My primary purpose for this SSD is...
techenclave.com techenclave.com
YMMV, but if you value your data then you are better off with well known brands
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Thanks for the reply. I have no intention of buying such drives at this time. It's more like gathering background information for future reference.

Thanks for the link too. Seems no one in that thread has experienced or heard about any early catastrophic failure of such drives so far.
 
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Seems no one in that thread has experienced or heard about any early catastrophic failure of such drives so far.
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Even then I would not trust them with any of my data. If and only if I am desperate for some cheap high capacity transient storage then I may consider EVM among the lot.
 
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Not a review, but an opinion. The drives are so closely priced to ones from Crucial etc., I don't really think it makes any sense to buy them over the reputed brands. I expect that most of their sales are PC builders or non tech people who don't know what's what. You usually won't find that crowd on a forum like this, or any online place for that matter. Due to this, reviews are going to be limited, both positive and negative.
 
been using EVM drives, both 2.5 and nvme/sata from quiet some time and never had issues. have a couple of xpg drives die on me. Did anyone had bad experience with evm drives?
 
Out of those rebranded drives, EVM is normally the most reliable (I use that term loosely).

If you aren't using it to save super important data, go for it.
 
I would say EVM is the most reliable in the bunch... They get Hynix and Samsung chips and produce the SSD here in India while Zeb and Ant rebrand OEM stuff. EVM is kind of playing the long game here, so they have to keep their products reliable and customer support game too.