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im planning to buy a SSD for all of the computers in my house, 2 Lenovo PCs(the former is and 4th gen Pentium and the latter is a 6th gen i3) brought by my Dad from his workplace, My bros 2013 Asus Laptop(3rd Gen i3 mobile), and my PC(6th gen i5)

*Im going to name the PCs according to their CPUs

 

The chonky pentium is sitting at below TV and it is rarely used because it only used as sort of a HTPC.

the i3 is used by my father where he use it for his work and LOVES to download MTVs and Instrument tutorials on YT, and a lot of ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) on torrents endlessly. (he downloads so much that I had to limit his internet speed because he was insensitve to others(us) who use the internet smh)

my bro's i3 laptop is lagging that he is complaining because his computer is slow even though i bought another stick of 4GB DDR3 so that it will have 8GB of RAM(i borrowed his laptop since he wasn't using it and i bought the RAM in the process)

lastly mine where everything is fine until i wanted to upgrade it with gaming components because i just use it for school works, and my PC was not made for gaming(i mean i have no dedicated GPU, no proper PSU and using a cheap asf Case.)

 

they all suffer from lag and slow boot up.

what SSDs should i buy for these PCs?

I want it all brand new though.

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middle end : Corsair MX500

low end : Kingston A400 or Sandisk SSD Plus

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man for most of these I would have said just go buy a lot of older intel 180gb drives

P needs likely a 120

500gb maybe good enough

250-500gb

250-500gb

pny CS900 or WD blue should be fine for all of them.

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16 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

man for most of these I would have said just go buy a lot of older intel 180gb drives

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i would have done that but i dont live in the US and my local second hand market doesnt have those intel SSDs.

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Just now, 5GigaaHertz said:

i would have done that but i dont live in the US and my local second hand market doesnt have those intel SSDs.

ebay is your friend. I often order stuff from 1/2 way around the world at low prices and then wait

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, Corsair RM750X, 500 gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 2x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a 750D airflow.
GF PC: (nighthawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Strix GTX970, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb Adata XPG 6000 lite, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

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3 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

ebay is your friend. I often order stuff from 1/2 way around the world at low prices and then wait

im new to ebay, what intel SSD should i look for what should i avoid when looking one?

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Just now, 5GigaaHertz said:

im new to ebay, what intel SSD should i look for what should i avoid when looking one?

many of the older intel drives come in 40 80, 120, 180, 240

really for current OS 120 is small

180 okay

240 where most people have room

240+ really kinda needed for a current gaming system given how big games are

 

intel 320, 710, 510. 520, 530, 535

really its most of intels pre 2015 drives

avoid the before 2011

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_SSDs

 

look for drive health info, good seller rating. if you going for 3-4 drives of the same type lot can be a good keyword

ex

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=intel+320+40gb&_sop=15&_fspt=1&_mPrRngCbx=1&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=intel+320+160gb&_sacat=0

 

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=intel+530+180gb+lot&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_sop=15&_fspt=1&_osacat=0&_odkw=intel+320+160gb

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, Corsair RM750X, 500 gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 2x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a 750D airflow.
GF PC: (nighthawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Strix GTX970, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb Adata XPG 6000 lite, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

PSU Tier List      Motherboard Tier List     SSD Tier List     How to get PC parts cheap    HP probook 445R G6 review

 

"Stupidity is like trying to find a limit of a constant. You are never truly smart in something, just less stupid."

Camera Gear: X-S10, 16-80 F4, 60D, 24-105 F4, 50mm F1.4, Helios44-m, 2 Cos-11D lavs

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49 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

look for drive health info, good seller rating. if you going for 3-4 drives of the same type lot can be a good keyword

ex

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=intel+320+40gb&_sop=15&_fspt=1&_mPrRngCbx=1&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=intel+320+160gb&_sacat=0

 

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=intel+530+180gb+lot&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_sop=15&_fspt=1&_osacat=0&_odkw=intel+320+160gb

rip. most of the bulk 530s and even the single one dont ship to my country. the 320 does but only sell in singles. but ill look for more.

 

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Just now, 5GigaaHertz said:

rip. most of the bulk 530s and even the single one dont ship to my country. the 320 does but only sell in singles. but ill look for more.

 

its not always a guarantee and shipping may ruin it. just something to look at from time to time.

Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST

NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Sapphire RX 6700XT  Nitro+, Corsair RM750X, 500 gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 2x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a 750D airflow.
GF PC: (nighthawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Strix GTX970, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D

Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb Adata XPG 6000 lite, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS

Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450.

Spirt  (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped

PSU Tier List      Motherboard Tier List     SSD Tier List     How to get PC parts cheap    HP probook 445R G6 review

 

"Stupidity is like trying to find a limit of a constant. You are never truly smart in something, just less stupid."

Camera Gear: X-S10, 16-80 F4, 60D, 24-105 F4, 50mm F1.4, Helios44-m, 2 Cos-11D lavs

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