Recommend an SSD

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I am looking to buy a second SSD for my home PC.

My first SSD has my gaming/regular OS, I put a second windows boot in another HD for my programming work, Sql, Mysql, stuff, visual studio, etc.


Well it turns out that the harddrive is really really slow for working; and after using SSD at work ,anything non ssd seems soo slow.

So any recommendation, Im looking at something in the 225 GB range.

Are intel the best option compared to samsungs?


500 GB at 150, seems very good.
Any recommendations?

Amazon product ASIN B00OBRE5UE

 

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radditsu

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Bought a 250gb 850 EVO for work about a month ago and it is a demon.

 

Jysin

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Samsung 850 Evos are the best bang for buck.

Amazon product ASIN B00OAJ412U
$90 for a 250gb
$150 for 500gb
$310 for 1TB

(shit, I had no idea they made 2TB and 4TB versions of these drives!)

 

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Lanx

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Everyones getting the Samsung Evos for pure awesomeness and price per GB
Samsung EVO

90$ for 250
156$ for 500

*edit, gah i Jysin beat me to it.

 

jooka

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I've got the 500GB Samsung, love it.

 

Erronius

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@Amod pls change the thread title to "Recommend an STD". Thanks.

 

Ladro

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Like everyone has said - Samsung 850 Evo, whatever size you can afford. If you can use one, get an m.2 950 pro. Shit is wicked fast.

 

Jysin

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Ladro said:

Like everyone has said - Samsung 850 Evo, whatever size you can afford. If you can use one, get an m.2 950 pro. Shit is wicked fast.

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I have the 950 Pro. It is quite a bit more expensive, but it is literally 4x as fast as the 850 as it uses PCIe bus vs the SATA bus like normal drives. You'd need a specific M.2 slot motherboard or PCIe adapter (and pray it boots correctly). Probably far more than you are wanting to spend.

 

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Thank you for the recommendations. I bought the evo 500.

@Amod please move this thread to the technology forum. I think it is where we normally have this king of things.

 

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Thank you amod.

 

Sledge

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How hard are those to install?

 

Denamian

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Sledge said:

How hard are those to install?

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They're no more difficult to install than any other drive.

 

Lanx

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Denamian said:

They're no more difficult to install than any other drive.

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Yup and since windows 7, there is no more extra options to configure and activate, win7 and above recognize a SSD and optimizes accordingly, so it's OS plug n play.

 

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Denamian said:

They're no more difficult to install than any other drive.

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I'd argue they're easier as the OS install takes 20 minutes instead of 2 hours.

 

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Be careful with the option to clone partitions, I had an issue installing mine because it wiped up the other partition windows needs to boot up.