Running Multiple Different Brand/Controlled SSD's

northtexas55693 · Mar 1, 2015

Currently running an Intel 180 GB 530 series SSDSC2BW180A4K5 - Sandforce SF-2281 Controller

I am going to upgrade my mobo to an Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0.

I want to add the following 2 SSD's:

Kingston 120 GB V300 series SV300S37A/120G - Sandforce SF-2281 Controller

Samsung 250 GB 850 series MZ-75E250B/AM - Samsung MGX Controller

Question being;
Will running 3 different branded SSD's and 2 different sets of controller cause any issues?
Performance / compatibility / etc.?

I plan on running my Win 7 Pro OS on the Samsung or the Intel.
I plan on running my other programs/games/file storage on the Kingston and or Intel.

I know it is probably better to run 1 or 2 bigger SSD's but budget/previous investment does not allow for that. Plus I think splitting up information (important information on "better" branded drives) is a good idea.

Thanks for your input.

Brillis Wuce · Mar 1, 2015

You can run as many SSD's together as your motherboard will let you, provided you're not going for a RAID setup. You won't have any issues.

I, myself, have a 256GB Crucial with a 180GB Intel SSD, one for games and the other for software. Zero problems.

USAFRet · Mar 1, 2015

No problem at all. I have a Kingston HyperX 3k 120GB, and 2 Samsung 840 EVO 250GB drives.
The system simply sees them as drives.

northtexas55693 · Mar 1, 2015

Thanks for the replies.

I am not shooting for raid right now so it seems I should be OK.

Brillis Wuce · Mar 1, 2015

Yep. You'll be fine.

boosted1g · Mar 1, 2015

No problem in running different SSDs

If you dont have it, I would advise agianst the v300 though. Kingston pulled a shady bait-and-switch. After all of the good reviews and benchmarks were done, they then swaped the nram chips right before the 2013 holiday season to async chips which in the end have 1/3 the real world performance. This is why 1.5 years latter Kingston is still trying to offload these drives while the stock of samsung 840 EVO/Pro drives is almost gone just a few months after releasing the 850 serries.

Brillis Wuce · Mar 1, 2015

boosted1g :

Makes perfect sense. We bought 200 of their 60GB models for virtual machines, and roughly 1 in 3 have failed after 18 months. The remaining are getting slower and slower every day.

boosted1g · Mar 1, 2015

I wont buy ram or any other products from them anymore, i can br understanding of a defective product line, but not when they deliberately deceive customers

boosted1g · Mar 1, 2015

Im looking for a word that starts with a K, it means bad taste in your mouth....

Brillis Wuce · Mar 1, 2015

My old buddy worked at Micron, and he would always tell me stories of how Kingston would buy the flash memory from Crucial that didn't pass their quality tests, and they would rebrand and re-sell it. They would buy it in bulk...several hundreds of thousands of dollars....

northtexas55693 · Mar 4, 2015

Yeah I've talked myself down from the Kingston/PNY cliff. Crucial, Samsung, and Intel are OK with me tho.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184253-ssd-shadiness-kingston-and-pny-caught-bait-and-switching-cheaper-components-after-good-reviews

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