I think Crucial still is the best all round choice for consumers. It has all the protections you want for a desktop: RAID5 bitcorrection and capacitors, so resilient against bad pages (high uBER) and resilient against unexpected power-loss. The read performance is excellent, the write performance depends on the size of the model. Only the 512GB model has almost SATA/600 capped writes. This shows off as a huge difference in the benchmarks, but in reality a small SSD will have only the OS and a few games on it. When will you be writing 500MB/s to it? You might read 500MB/s quite often though, when starting a game after a reboot. So benchmarks usually are misleading in that they favor writing while in reality reading is more common. The cause - i think - is that the captured I/O is performed at maximum speed and inaccurately timed queue depth. While in reality 4K writes happen in bunches with time in between, which all modern SSDs handle quite well.