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Hey guys.

What would be the best 60 Gig SSD to get ? The Adata, Corsair, kingston, OCZ... or maybe i should spring for a 80 gig intel ?
 
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Firstly can you handle having a 60GB drive? I know I couldnt so I got rid of it quickly.
Then I got a 120GB ocz agility 3 which I use on sata2 and its awesome.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
Firstly can you handle having a 60GB drive? I know I couldnt so I got rid of it quickly.
Then I got a 120GB ocz agility 3 which I use on sata2 and its awesome.
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Yea a 60gb ssd is tiny for people who use their pc's for more than internet and email.

If you play games, work and so on you will run outta space very quickly. If i look at my setup. With windows 7, bf 3 and a couple games from steam that uses 60gb and remember a 60gb never gives you 60gb usable.

Adata look like awesome drives, i would also recommend you don't buy old sata 2 ssd's because you might upgrade in the future and then you are stuck with a sata 2 drive.
 
I only have SATA 2 ... i7 920, so still the x58 architecture :)

so the OCZ 60gb looks like it has the fastest read/write speeds... and costs the same, and is a little future proof :) will it work on sata 2 ?

i was thinking of getting a 60gb now, and then another 60gb in a about 9 months when i upgrade, and then i can raid them ?
 
That would work fine and if you can keep within the 60gb you may not even need a bigger one.

Sata 2 will work with sata 3 devices. You can even buy a sata 3 card, they cannot be that expensive and just add it on to get the extra speed but again you need to ask yourself if you would use more than 180mb r/w a sec.
 
If you go for RAID, you'll lose out on TRIM on most of the SSD's + you'll have to format the drive.
 
This thread is three years old so things have changed a bit an swell as prices have come down . Is a 128 GB SSD sufficient and what is the best make to buy? or should one look foe a slightly bigger drive? i am not a heavy pc user just normal stuff like Skype,Emails and Face Book online poker.
 
jphegers said:
This thread is three years old so things have changed a bit an swell as prices have come down . Is a 128 GB SSD sufficient and what is the best make to buy? or should one look foe a slightly bigger drive? i am not a heavy pc user just normal stuff like Skype,Emails and Face Book online poker.
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I have a 128GB SSD and it's sufficient for my needs. I'd go for the brand with the longest warranty. Best be a brand that you've heard of before.
 
jphegers said:
This thread is three years old so things have changed a bit an swell as prices have come down . Is a 128 GB SSD sufficient and what is the best make to buy? or should one look foe a slightly bigger drive? i am not a heavy pc user just normal stuff like Skype,Emails and Face Book online poker.
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As long as you supplement it with another drive, you should be fine. 128GB would be too small for me.
 
Samsung 850 EVO.

Review

High endurance with 3D NAND
Following the 850 Pro, the 850 Evo is the second SSD from Samsung that uses a 3D vertical flash memory cell. Traditionally, 2D planar type NAND flash memory cells -- the storage units on an SSD -- lay flat on the surface of the silicon wafer. That's common for most SSDs on the market. With the 850 Evo, the drive's flash memory cells are stacked in up to 32 layers, which allows for significantly more cells in the same number of wafer bits. This greatly increases the density and means, among other things, more storage space for less cost.

Similar to the 850 Pro, Samsung also claims that the 3D NAND delivers very high endurance, which is the rating that quantifies the total amount of data that can be written to an SSD before the drive becomes unreliable.

Specifically, the 850 Evo's 120GB and 250GB capacities have an endurance rating of 75TB. This means you can write 40GB per day to the drive every day, and it will last for 5 years. The 500GB and 1TB capacities' endurance is doubled (150TB) and is the same as that of the 850 Pro.

Note that SSD's endurance relates only to writing as reading doesn't effect its life span at all. (For more on SSD's endurance, check out this post.) Also, 40GB is a lot of data; in general usage, most days we don't write even a fraction of that to our computer's main drive. That said, chances are you'll replace your computer a few times before the 850 Evo's endurance is expired.
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http://www.cnet.com/topics/storage/best-hard-drives-and-storage/ssd/
 
Chevron said:
There's such a small price difference these days between 128GB and 256GB that it's stupid to not get a 256GB.

I'd get this:
http://www.wootware.co.za/crucial-c...6gb-2-5-sata-iii-6gb-s-solid-state-drive.html
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Yup.Go bigger!
60gig is ridiculously small noways. Remember you'll only benefit from SSD speeds if the programs u running are installed on that drive. So having windows boot in a couple of seconds is fun but if you installed all your programs on another non-SSD drive you still going to wait.
I have BF4 and Photoshop install on my SSD and it's super sweet. Sometimes I just open photoshop on my pc just to watch how quickly it loads. :D

As for makes you cant go too wrong, Samsung, Transend, OCZ all are real close speedwise, your choise of motherboard will make the bigger difference.

Also Windows 8.1.
 
Go with the Crucial. Has enterprise power failure features.

I've been running Crucial for the past couple years.
 
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