I have an older laptop where my hard drive crashed. Going to replace it with an SSD, but there are so many brands available. Any brand recommendations or any to stay away from?

Appreciate any advice you can give.

Older laptop, so i assume you're looking for a 2.5" SSD and not an NVME?

Samsung drives are great. Any brand you've heard of should be good; Crucial, SanDisk, WD, Kingston. But honestly i've had good experience with the cheap-o brands too, like Silicon Power and Teamgroup.

I only ever buy Western Digital and sometimes Seagate. I don't mess with any other brand. The couple of times int he past I've tried someone else for a HDD or SSD it ended up corrupting or crashing.


The price difference between a premium brand like Western Digital and a cheap brand is completely worth the peace of mind, imo. Unless you are just on a strict budget and your family will go hungry tomorrow if you can't save 15-20%.

I haven't any specific issues with other brands, but I usually lean towards Western Digital for mechanical drives and Samsung Evo drives for SSDs

That is correct, looking for a 2.5" drive

Seems like I should be safe sticking to the big name brands would be safe.

Thanks!