time to purchase my first SSD

**Emil** · 11-04-2014, 03:57 AM

Originally posted by DraX

What brands are the best today for a desktop computer ?

Looking for a 180 gb disk and latest generation

Performance vs price - so best performance for the buck

Which one should I get ?

Why do you need 180 GB? 100 GB is often enough for the OS.
But a smaller one but faster for the same price. ;)

**EddyTheDog** · 11-04-2014, 03:57 AM

Best upgrade you can buy - You will be blown away...

**Mr. Garibaldi** · 11-04-2014, 04:01 AM

i went with Samsung

lowest failure rates on the market, but you have to pay extra money for this.. generally samsungs are about 20% more expensive than same capacity from other brands

**Barry-xlovecam** · 11-04-2014, 04:31 AM

I am getting by with a pretty small SSD on a new AMD A Series Black Edition 8 Core but I have seen some 250 GB SSDs on sale for around $120 the past few weeks ...

This one looks better than mine -- the read speed is a lot faster in 10 months: SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD256BW 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...692&isNodeId=1

Fast as hell with the o/s on the SSD ... Boot up time rocks.

Code:

barry@deathstar9:~$ df
Filesystem     1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
[U][B]/dev/sda2      106039400  21572332  79057532  22% /[/B][/U]
none                   4         0         4   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev             8116500         4   8116496   1% /dev
tmpfs            1632872      1556   1631316   1% /run
none                5120         0      5120   0% /run/lock
none             8164348       268   8164080   1% /run/shm
none              102400        44    102356   1% /run/user
[U][B]/dev/sda1         497696      3428    494268   1% /boot/efi[/B][/U]
/dev/sdd1      961301832 342239632 570207776  38% /media/barry/SATA4
/dev/sdc1      961301832  90683948 821763460  10% /media/barry/SATA2
/dev/sdb1      961301832   4325664 908121744   1% /media/barry/41de29d5-4133-44db-aa35-058488afa3f0

**Mickey_** · 11-04-2014, 04:50 AM

http://www.kingston.com/en/ssd

Word of advice: the bigger the better. ;)

**dready** · 11-04-2014, 05:05 AM

The Samsung 850 Pro is the hot shit right now. Newest technology and a ten year warranty.

**MaDalton** · 11-04-2014, 05:22 AM

i have a 256 gb

**DraX** · 11-04-2014, 05:46 AM

Originally posted by dready

The Samsung 850 Pro is the hot shit right now. Newest technology and a ten year warranty.

That drive looks promising

Originally posted by MaDalton

i have a 256 gb

I can do with a 256gb instead of 180gb

As of now im leaning towards a Samsung 850 Pro 256gb, seems like a good buy!

Thanks all for your suggestions

**BlackCrayon** · 11-04-2014, 05:52 AM

Originally posted by dready

The Samsung 850 Pro is the hot shit right now. Newest technology and a ten year warranty.

that's what i just got. you can't beat a 10 year warranty. i've read that the bigger the ssd the faster it is though it isn't really noticable beyond 256gb. this is my first time using ssd on a computer its great so far.

**The Duck** · 11-04-2014, 05:56 AM

Samsung 850 pro all the way, great drive.

time to purchase my first SSD

time to purchase my first SSD

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