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I know both these SSDs are terrible compared to the more expensive ones, but out of these 2 which would you suggest? Because I just need a cheap SSD for my computer to boot off of.

 

https://www.amazon.ca/KingDian-Internal-Solid-Desktop-Laptop/dp/B086YR4RDM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kingdian&qid=1591396849&s=electronics&sr=1-1&th=1

 

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01N6JQS8C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

I'm pretty sure Kingston is a bigger company than KingDian but do you think the extra cost of the Kingston is worth it?

 

I just need like 60GB not more to be honest; it should be more than enough for booting off of.

Thanks!

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1 minute ago, name1 said:

I know both these SSDs are terrible compared to the more expensive ones, but out of these 2 which would you suggest? Because I just need a cheap SSD for my computer to boot off of.

 

https://www.amazon.ca/KingDian-Internal-Solid-Desktop-Laptop/dp/B086YR4RDM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kingdian&qid=1591396849&s=electronics&sr=1-1&th=1

 

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01N6JQS8C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

I'm pretty sure Kingston is a bigger company than KingDian but do you think the extra cost of the Kingston is worth it?

 

I just need like 60GB not more to be honest; it should be more than enough for booting off of.

Thanks!

I would go Kingston. I have that SSD in my server actually, its been fine.

 

Also, why just a boot drive? I would try and get a 256 since they don't cost much more, and the gives you room to put programs on as well. A 128 is basically the minimum I would ever recommend these days....

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2 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

I would go Kingston. I have that SSD in my server actually, its been fine.

 

Also, why just a boot drive? I would try and get a 256 since they don't cost much more, and the gives you room to put programs on as well. A 128 is basically the minimum I would ever recommend these days....

I mean, really because I have a 2 TB HDD, but I'm trying to save some money haha! Thanks for the advice!

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2 minutes ago, Nick Neuburg said:

neither of these have dram caches so I wouldn't recommend either

Yep, I'm just getting them so I can boot faster. You know any cheap ones with DRAM cahces?

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Both are garbage, if you're on an extremely tight budget at least go with the Crucial BX500 since it's the best perfoming/reliable dramless SSD you can buy.

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1 hour ago, Nick Neuburg said:

neither of these have dram caches so I wouldn't recommend either

Oh the kingston is dramless. Thats... something I wish I knew before I bought mine :/

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Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

Homelab/Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x8TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - 2x 800 GB SAS SSD’s (1 SLOG, 1 L2Arc) - - 45 HomeLab HL15 15 Drive 4U - - Corsair RM650i - - LSI 9305-16i HBA - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

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