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    Looking for an SSD.

    In the next few months I plan to do a major upgrade to my current system, so I'm looking for a good and reliable 120-256gb SSD. At the moment I've been looking at the Samsung 840 Evo and the Corsair Force Series GS SSD's. Some SSD's are still pretty expensive, so I'm looking for an SSD below £150.

    If anyone could point me in the right direction, that would be great

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    Re: Looking for an SSD.

    General recommendations are normally the Crucial M500 or a Samsung 840 / pro / evo depending on your budget.

    Many people shy away from anything Sandforce based due to past reliability issues. Many of these have been fixed, but you can sometimes still find people having issues with them around the web. The better benchmarks you also see from them don't always translate into the real world.

    In all honesty though, any modern respectable SSD is going to give you very good levels of performance. Don't worry about benchmarks too much. In the real world, you often don't hit a few thousand IOPS, never mind the insane numbers some of them claim. For most people reliability should be the number one thing.
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    Re: Looking for an SSD.

    As above, any recent and modern SSD will offer very good performance.

    The new Vertex 460 appears to offer performance on par with an 840 Pro, but at a smaller price. If it's just for bootup etc then go with an 840 Evo, or the M500 as they're on special offer at the moment with the code CR10JFD as well.

    I would stay away from Sandforce controllers, as they require compressible data in order to perform as well as they can. Reliability is still an issue for some as well.

    I would buy:

    840 Evo
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    I am aware that OCZ had issues with SSDs, but honestly, their issues stopped before the arrival of the Vertex 3, yet people have continued the trend of the plagued SSD ever since.

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    Re: Looking for an SSD.

    Yes I've just chucked an M500 in there. It's selling for under £60(I'm not sure if that code makes it any cheaper), but if you do their survey(on Hexus) that's another £10 off. 120GB SSD for under £50!!!!

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    Re: Looking for an SSD.

    That code is from the survey.
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    Re: Looking for an SSD.

    I would go for the Samsung 840 EVO 250GB circa £130 on Amazon. Better performance than pretty much anything other than the 840 Pro (and better performance than the EVO 120GB). The 840 Pro comes in about £160 min and is theoretically worth it (better speed in some cases, and should be better lasting) but for most people the EVO is the sweet spot IMO.

    Set capacity 20GB lower than stated for avoidance of speed degradation as the drive fills up.

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    Re: Looking for an SSD.

    I think I'm going to go with a 120+GB Samsung 840 Evo then.

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    Re: Looking for an SSD.

    If your budget can stretch that far, I would recommend you go for the 250Gb version rather than the 120Gb.

    It is quicker (though not massively) but more importantly, it will take longer to run out of space.

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    Re: Looking for an SSD.

    Do you want it just as a system drive or will you want to put some games on it too? I've got a 120gb SSD and with the size of some games it fills up pretty quickly! As long as you're prepared to shuffle games around (and have a fast enough internet connection to mean it's not too much aggro) then 120gb would be enough but I wish I'd gone for a larger one!

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    Re: Looking for an SSD.

    Quote Originally Posted by Schern View Post
    Do you want it just as a system drive or will you want to put some games on it too? I've got a 120gb SSD and with the size of some games it fills up pretty quickly! As long as you're prepared to shuffle games around (and have a fast enough internet connection to mean it's not too much aggro) then 120gb would be enough but I wish I'd gone for a larger one!
    +1 I'd go 500GB min for a laptop but that is getting pricey by then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Schern View Post
    Do you want it just as a system drive or will you want to put some games on it too? I've got a 120gb SSD and with the size of some games it fills up pretty quickly! As long as you're prepared to shuffle games around (and have a fast enough internet connection to mean it's not too much aggro) then 120gb would be enough but I wish I'd gone for a larger one!
    I want it as a boot drive, maybe a few applications but not games - they can stay on my WD Blue HDD.

    Quote Originally Posted by liammcd View Post
    If your budget can stretch that far, I would recommend you go for the 250Gb version rather than the 120Gb.

    It is quicker (though not massively) but more importantly, it will take longer to run out of space.
    Quote Originally Posted by ik9000 View Post
    +1 I'd go 500GB min for a laptop but that is getting pricey by then.
    120GB would be enough for what I need it for. 500GB would be overkill, maybe when their cheaper

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    Re: Looking for an SSD.

    How often do you boot? Do you really need a drive just to boot fast?

    If you want to save money, I would suggest sticking with rotating media rather than dabbling with a small drive.

    I find I can live quite happily in 256GB, and when I got mine it wasn't that much more than the 128GB.

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    Re: Looking for an SSD.

    oh totally 250 is fine with an HDD combined. I just tend to run my laptops for a few years and they can get quite full hence i'd go 500. But there's nothing wrong with going 120 or 250. Horses for courses and all that


    edit, ah sorry folks mixing up 2 dif threads. the 500GB comment and subsequent was intended for another thread....

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    Re: Looking for an SSD.

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    How often do you boot? Do you really need a drive just to boot fast?

    If you want to save money, I would suggest sticking with rotating media rather than dabbling with a small drive.

    I find I can live quite happily in 256GB, and when I got mine it wasn't that much more than the 128GB.
    I boot a couple times a day, and it get really annoying waiting a couple of minutes to actually be able to do something (god I sound impatient lol).

    At the moment on Scan, there is a £60 price difference between the 120GB and the 250GB Evo, now £60 isn't that big off a difference, but I'd rather not spend the additional money on something I don't reckon I would use. Even though in the OP I said I was looking for a '120-256GB SSD', I was aiming more towards the 120/128GB mark. In the past I've only really used about 60-70GB of space on my primary partition - 250+GB would be a waste in my opinion. If at the time of purchase, there was a good 250GB deal, I'd probably buy it over the 120GB.

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    Re: Looking for an SSD.

    fair enough go 120GB - and save moneys for future upgrades. A kind of suck it and see approach. Would this help? link

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    Re: Looking for an SSD.

    I use the 120 EVO for just OS and minor apps. Filled about 33GB total so far and it's doing fine.
    I'd heard that SSDs don't like being over 50% capacity anyway, so keeping it low has forced me to organise my files better too!

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