{"id":234540,"date":"2017-11-13T11:34:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T09:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=234540"},"modified":"2017-11-13T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T09:35:21","slug":"the-10-fastest-ssds-you-can-buy-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/234540-the-10-fastest-ssds-you-can-buy-in-south-africa.html","title":{"rendered":"The 10 fastest SSDs you can buy in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buying an SSD for your PC can make a considerable difference to its performance.<\/p>\n

The speed of SSDs varies according to a number of factors, including interface, NAND flash type, controller, and brand.<\/p>\n

While a cheap 2.5-inch SATA SSD should provide a decent performance improvement over a mechanical hard drive, the best results can be gained from upgrading to a high-speed SSD.<\/p>\n

Using performance data from AnandTech’s benchmark database<\/strong><\/a>, we have ranked the best-performing SSDs available in South Africa based on average data rates.<\/p>\n

Samsung’s latest V-NAND SSDs easily beat the competition, with the 960 Pro 2TB leading the pack in terms of average performance.<\/p>\n

Samsung occupied six out of the top 10 slots in the rankings, with Intel, Corsair, and Western Digital also making an appearance.<\/p>\n

SSD Comparison<\/h3>\n

The 10 fastest SSDs available in South Africa, along with their local pricing, are detailed below.<\/p>\n

Speed was calculated using a benchmark which replicated the access patterns of I\/O-intensive desktop usage.<\/p>\n

Certain SSDs were excluded as they are not readily available in SA, including products from Zotac, Plextor, OCZ, and Patriot.<\/p>\n

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Rank<\/th>\nSSD<\/th>\nAverage Data Rate<\/th>\nPrice<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/strong><\/td>\nSamsung 960 Pro 2TB<\/td>\n1,139.34MB\/s<\/td>\nR19,999<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/strong><\/td>\nSamsung 950 Pro 512GB<\/td>\n980.79MB\/s<\/td>\nR5,634<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/strong><\/td>\nSamsung 960 EVO 1TB<\/td>\n904.31MB\/s<\/td>\nR7,151<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/strong><\/td>\nIntel SSD 750 1.2TB<\/td>\n878.48MB\/s<\/td>\nR18,099<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/strong><\/td>\nOCZ RD400 256GB<\/td>\n539.69MB\/s<\/td>\nR4,390<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/strong><\/td>\nCorsair Neutron NX500 400GB<\/td>\n464.27MB\/s<\/td>\nR5,466<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/strong><\/td>\nWD Black 512GB<\/td>\n350.20MB\/s<\/td>\nR3,409<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/strong><\/td>\nSamsung 850 Pro 1TB<\/td>\n330.34MB\/s<\/td>\nR7,313<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/strong><\/td>\nSamsung 850 PRO 512GB<\/td>\n326.42MB\/s<\/td>\nR3,447<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/strong><\/td>\nSamsung 850 EVO 1TB<\/td>\n317.33MB\/s<\/td>\nR4,618<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Now read:\u00a0AMD Ryzen vs Intel 8th-gen Core \u2013 South African price comparison<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We compared the South African pricing of the best-performing SSDs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":209296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[10374,46880,35,28190],"class_list":["post-234540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-anandtech","tag-data-rate","tag-headline","tag-solid-state-drive-ssd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235094,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234540\/revisions\/235094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}