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BetterThanLife
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Looking for an SSD but am not wanting to go mental on cost, if anything i want it as cheap as possible. Are all brands reliable?

Stinkpci5 3550. DDR3 1600mhz 8GB. Gigabyte GA-H61N-USB3.0. Sapphire RX 570 Nitro 4GB oc. Noctua NH-L12. WD Black 600GB. Silverstone PSU 1KW. Advent 1440x900 75hz VGA monitor 1ms. Acer Veriton M464 chassis.

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4 minutes ago, BetterThanLife said:

Looking for an SSD but am not wanting to go mental on cost, if anything i want it as cheap as possible. Are all brands reliable?

Short answer: No

If you want cheap SSD, you could get some extremely cheap "SSD" and i put th8at in quotes because they wont run like an SSD.

 

Over in the UK, the cheapest is generally the Crucial brand so you might want to look there. 

CPU
Intel® Core i9 9900K 8 Core 16 Threads
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG Strix Z390-E
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB
Graphics Card
MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio

1st Drive

500GB Samsung 970 EVO NVME 

2nd Drive

1TB Samsung 970 EVO NVME
3rd Hard Disk
480GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 450MB/sW)
4th Hard Disk
2TB 3.5" SEAGATE SSHD, SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM

5th Hard Disk
2TB 3.5" SEAGATE SSHD, SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET 
Processor Cooling
Corsair H150i Pr 360mm AIO

Case:

Lian Li O11 Air

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1 minute ago, Findiculous said:

Short answer: No

If you want cheap SSD, you could get some extremely cheap "SSD" and i put th8at in quotes because they wont run like an SSD.

 

Over in the UK, the cheapest is generally the Crucial brand so you might want to look there. 

Cheers.

I am not buying right now just trying to gather some information. Crucial, i have seen M4 models, are those decent?

Stinkpci5 3550. DDR3 1600mhz 8GB. Gigabyte GA-H61N-USB3.0. Sapphire RX 570 Nitro 4GB oc. Noctua NH-L12. WD Black 600GB. Silverstone PSU 1KW. Advent 1440x900 75hz VGA monitor 1ms. Acer Veriton M464 chassis.

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7 minutes ago, BetterThanLife said:

Looking for an SSD but am not wanting to go mental on cost, if anything i want it as cheap as possible. Are all brands reliable?

The Crucial MX500 is a fast and reliable budget SSD.

CPU: Intel Core i7-950 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R CPU Cooler: NZXT HAVIK 140 RAM: Corsair Dominator DDR3-1600 (1x2GB), Crucial DDR3-1600 (2x4GB), Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3-1600 (1x4GB) GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX 770 DirectCU II 2GB SSD: Samsung 860 EVO 2.5" 1TB HDDs: WD Green 3.5" 1TB, WD Blue 3.5" 1TB PSU: Corsair AX860i & CableMod ModFlex Cables Case: Fractal Design Meshify C TG (White) Fans: 2x Dynamic X2 GP-12 Monitors: LG 24GL600F, Samsung S24D390 Keyboard: Logitech G710+ Mouse: Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum Mouse Pad: Steelseries QcK Audio: Bose SoundSport In-Ear Headphones

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7 minutes ago, BetterThanLife said:

Looking for an SSD but am not wanting to go mental on cost, if anything i want it as cheap as possible. Are all brands reliable?

Crucial MX300 and 500 are good for SATA SSD's on the cheap

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Wow lots of love for the Crucial brand, will keep my eyes out :)

Stinkpci5 3550. DDR3 1600mhz 8GB. Gigabyte GA-H61N-USB3.0. Sapphire RX 570 Nitro 4GB oc. Noctua NH-L12. WD Black 600GB. Silverstone PSU 1KW. Advent 1440x900 75hz VGA monitor 1ms. Acer Veriton M464 chassis.

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