Not an expert, had my hard drive replaced with Samsung SSD five years go.

My last drive was WD and have had no issues with it. I have 2 2.5 sata Samsung SSD’s for about 6–7 years now and have had no issues with them either.

I would expect your would be OK with any major brand. I would avoid trying to save money going with a “brand” you dont recognise.

Most RAM and SSDs will mostly just work, at least for several years. It’s a question of more or less risk of eventual failure, checking for a problem after installation, and how good the customer relations are if/when there is a problem right away.

SSDs concern me more than RAM, as unlike RAM, they should be expected to fail at some point, eventually, and when they do, they’re more likely to have something important on them.

I would tend to prefer the best brands, so for RAM: Corsair, Kingston, G-Skill, Crucial, HyperX, but also Samsung, Oloy, or any others that review well.

For SSDs: Crucial, Intel, Samsung, Western Digital, maybe Kingston or Seagate, probably others that review well particularly in competent articles about reliability.

Since these things are mostly reliable, personal experience isn’t necessarily the best thing to go by. I tend to look at review sites and the brands used by high-end computer makers I trust like Puget Systems.

Well, I would personally go with Seagate or SK Hynix or Kingston any day.

TBH the brand doesn’t matter at all. Item that actually runs reliably over time does. You don’t wanna be spending all your time in RMA and stuff. It’s an electronic item and they usually fail sooner or later no matter which brand you take. Question is when? Some works fine for years, while others last for a month. So choose wisely.

I cannot fathom noticing the difference between a “slow” SSD and a fast one. Especially when you they are all NVME.

There are so many other bottlenecks, I do not believe anyone could perceive any speed advantage unless they are working in an esoteric science field.

@Call_Me_Jay good points, the speed difference is probably imperceptible for 98% of what I do.

I am partial to Seagate because I worked there as a hardware Engineer just out of college ions ago. I am not a Western Digital fan

Samsung and Kingston have very good products along with a longstanding industry reputation. This would be my choice whether in a PC or in a Datacenter Server.