Occasionally, we will look at a piece of hardware for little reason other than the amount of hype it gets. That is the case with our Samsung 830 review today – you see it recommended and mentioned at various hardware forums and Reddit more often than just about any other single SSD model.

Quite often, people are looking for an alternative to SandForce based drives and/or OCZ drives (although we quite recommend the Vertex 4, which is not SandForce based, and we found it to be quite solid). Along with the Crucial m4, the next most common recommendation is the Samsung 830 – many people shy away from the low write speed of the m4.