Good 240gb SSD from Amazon?

[eric95204]

i got some amazon giftcards for my birthday and i am ready to buy a ssd. what ssd would you recommend? is a 240gb worth it over a 120gb? Here are some of what i found:

 

PNY XLR8 $99 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007WT9UXA/

 

Crucial M500 $120 http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-240GB-2-5-Inch-Internal-CT240M500SSD1/dp/B00BQ8RM1A

 

Sandisk ultra plus $120 http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-2-5-Inch-Height-SDSSDHP-256G-FFP/dp/B00APEG8NO

 

adata premiere pro $120 http://www.amazon.com/ADATA-Premier-Pro2-5-Inch-Internal-ASP900S3-256GM-C/dp/B007RHT4K6/

 

seagate 600 $120 http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-2-5-Inch-Z-Height-Solid-ST240HM000/dp/B00CKAOJA0

[Anthony10]

840 evo

[ZetZet]

PNY is good value nothing wrong with it. Sandisk and adata are fast. Crucial is the most reliable one in my opinion. I personally don't find 240gb worth it, but then I only have 2 games on SSD. Some people like to install more games so it's worth it then.

 

or like @Anthony10 said go for 840 evo if you aren't on a tight budget, it's superior to all of them.

[Chriz6097]

840 evo

That's $140 but from the list I'd personally go with the Adata because I've never heard anything bad about them and Seagate because I would like to see how good it is.

[nishank93]

M500.

 

I'd take a 240/256 GB boot drive over a 120/128 GB drive unless I was extremely constrained on money or didn't play games at all. SSDs aren't super expensive anymore, and everyone hates loading screens.

[Grave]

The best of those is the Crucial M500, especially for it's price. ~$120 or less is ideal for it but I'd pay $140 for it, probably.

The PNY XLR8 SSDs are somewhat comparable to M500s, definitely worth their price. I don't know how much worse they truly are, though. I remember they're rated maybe around 18% below that in read/write of the M500. It's an SSD regardless of that, they're not going to be slow..

Samsung 840 EVO is a piece of overrated silicon, it needs to be on sale to be worth buying unless you buy a 1TB drive. AFAIK nothing comes anywhere near it in performance for its price at 1TB capacities. Edit: Maybe the 1TB M550 does, I haven't looked at benchmarks.

Oh, and to answer the question about 120-128GB vs 240-256GB, that's entirely subject to what you need and think you'll use. Don't overspend on SSD storage if you won't use it. If you're gaming, 240GB is probably plenty. I doubt you're going to download multiple 50GB games that would benefit from an SSD's speed (mmorpg's like Aion Online for example - 48GB game). There's always buying a second drive or instead going with a large hybrid SSHD from Seagate. The 2TB capacity is the best value for its space without sacrificing performance or overspending/getting 'too much' space and likely more than you'd ever use even if you torrent a lot of content. More than likely, you'd try to delete clutter before filling that 2TB out with w/e you'd keep.

I actually think there's a sale on these drives, I'll edit again with links if I can find.

2TB on Amazon for $116 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EIQTKAS/

1TB on Amazon for $80 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EIQTOFY/

The 4TB models cost the same per gigabyte of storage as the 2TB, really. Maybe save $5-10 per TB. The normal discount is like 30% on both of these, they normally cost $110 and $160-$180. There's also a steam app that makes it so you can launch games installed on a secondary drive, which removes a lot of the necessity of having a lot of SSD space for gaming, making HDDs an option if needed. Final note: Most of the time, the more space you buy, the cheaper the drive is. Half of the time though, the performance goes down the bigger the drive is which is why it's cheaper. It's not much of an impedement unless it's an HDD/SSHD or you're doing large/frequent data transfer and need efficiency. That's where the 1TB Samsung EVO/PRO comes in handy.

[eric95204]

The best of those is the Crucial M500, especially for it's price. ~$120 or less is ideal for it but I'd pay $140 for it, probably.

The PNY XLR8 SSDs are somewhat comparable to M500s, definitely worth their price. I don't know how much worse they truly are, though. I remember they're rated maybe around 18% below that in read/write of the M500. It's an SSD regardless of that, they're not going to be slow..

Samsung 840 EVO is a piece of overrated silicon, it needs to be on sale to be worth buying unless you buy a 1TB drive. AFAIK nothing comes anywhere near it in performance for its price at 1TB capacities. Edit: Maybe the 1TB M550 does, I haven't looked at benchmarks.

Oh, and to answer the question about 120-128GB vs 240-256GB, that's entirely subject to what you need and think you'll use. Don't overspend on SSD storage if you won't use it. If you're gaming, 240GB is probably plenty. I doubt you're going to download multiple 50GB games that would benefit from an SSD's speed (mmorpg's like Aion Online for example - 48GB game). There's always buying a second drive or instead going with a large hybrid SSHD from Seagate. The 2TB capacity is the best value for its space without sacrificing performance or overspending/getting 'too much' space and likely more than you'd ever use even if you torrent a lot of content. More than likely, you'd try to delete clutter before filling that 2TB out with w/e you'd keep.

I actually think there's a sale on these drives, I'll edit again with links if I can find.

2TB on Amazon for $116 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EIQTKAS/

1TB on Amazon for $80 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EIQTOFY/

The 4TB models cost the same per gigabyte of storage as the 2TB, really. Maybe save $5-10 per TB. The normal discount is like 30% on both of these, they normally cost $110 and $160-$180. There's also a steam app that makes it so you can launch games installed on a secondary drive, which removes a lot of the necessity of having a lot of SSD space for gaming, making HDDs an option if needed. Final note: Most of the time, the more space you buy, the cheaper the drive is. Half of the time though, the performance goes down the bigger the drive is which is why it's cheaper. It's not much of an impedement unless it's an HDD/SSHD or you're doing large/frequent data transfer and need efficiency. That's where the 1TB Samsung EVO/PRO comes in handy.

i have already a 3tb seagate hdd

[Wats]

i just put a kingston 240gb i found on sale in someones pc last night. That thing was nice compared to the potato chip EVO EDIT: it replaced

[hojnikb]

m500 all the way. PNY and adata are sandforce garbage, sandisk only uses 4 chanell controller. Seagate seems nice aswell, as it uses LAMD controller.