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To be quite honest, it's really up to you for which drive to get. Yes, the Pro will perform better, but is it worth the ~50% price increase to you?

Either will be great options, I personally own a 250GB 850 Pro and use it as a boot drive, even after Office and Adobe CC installed (with atleast half the programs installed), I still have 140GB free.

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Hi all. :) Looking at either Samsung EVO 250GB for $98.24, or the Samsung PRO 256GB for $142.99. I know the Pro version is higher than the Evo, but will the Evo suffice or will I benefit from the performance of the Pro better for my Win 8 install/games & programs? Is the difference worth the extra cost? Is 250/256GB enough for my OS and games? I'll be adding a larger HDD later on for storage.

 

Oh and please feel free to add suggestions to other brands that are good as well.

 

Thank you guys.

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850 Evo. They are fine. There is very little performance difference between the two.

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Hi all. :) Looking at either Samsung EVO 250GB for $98.24, or the Samsung PRO 256GB for $142.99. I know the Pro version is higher than the Evo, but will the Evo suffice or will I benefit from the performance of the Pro better for my Win 8 install/games & programs? Is the difference worth the extra cost? Is 250/256GB enough for my OS and games? I'll be adding a larger HDD later on for storage.

 

Oh and please feel free to add suggestions to other brands that are good as well.

 

Thank you guys.

Well your motherboard has support for an mSATA SSD so go for those. Samsung's SATA SSDs have been kinda sketchy recently.

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I recommend every other company then Samsung.

I didnt get a reply from their support for 2 months. 2 MONTHS. 

Their TLC Nand on the EVO's is less reliable then the industry standard MLC.

Please dont buy Samsung, I have lived through the worse part of my computer life because of em

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Well your motherboard has support for an mSATA SSD so go for those. Samsung's SATA SSDs have been kinda sketchy recently.

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I've killed samsung drives. But they also had well over 1TB written per day. The 850s are just fine, and perform as expected. I've yet to experience a single stutter from mine. Keep in mind, you rarely hear reviews from people who have a good experience, but internet warriors are quick to write a bad review on a single mishap.

The projects never end in my line of work.

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CPU: Core i7 5820k @ 4.7GHz || GPU: Dual Titan X || Motherboard: Asus X99 Deluxe || RAM: 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport || Monitors: MX299Q, 29UB65, LG 34UM95 || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB in Raid 0, Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, 2TB Toshiba scratch disk, 3TB Seagate Barracuda || PSU: EVGA 1000w PS Platinum

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I've killed samsung drives. But they also had well over 1TB written per day. The 850s are just fine, and perform as expected. I've yet to experience a single stutter from mine. Keep in mind, you rarely hear reviews from people who have a good experience, but internet warriors are quick to write a bad review on a single mishap.

Well, I was running at 30k IOPS nad 20k IOPS (Read/write) on an 840 EVO. Contacted Samsung support, they refused to RMA it after finally responding after 2 months.

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I've killed samsung drives. But they also had well over 1TB written per day. The 850s are just fine, and perform as expected. I've yet to experience a single stutter from mine. Keep in mind, you rarely hear reviews from people who have a good experience, but internet warriors are quick to write a bad review on a single mishap.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2887255/samsung-promises-yet-another-fix-for-slowed-840-evo-ssds.html

That whole fiasco.

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I know. But the 850 isn't affected by that issue. And that's what OP is referring to.

The projects never end in my line of work.

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CPU: Core i7 5820k @ 4.7GHz || GPU: Dual Titan X || Motherboard: Asus X99 Deluxe || RAM: 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport || Monitors: MX299Q, 29UB65, LG 34UM95 || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB in Raid 0, Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, 2TB Toshiba scratch disk, 3TB Seagate Barracuda || PSU: EVGA 1000w PS Platinum

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If not Samsung, what about Crucial? I've seen they've had some good reviews on Amazon and other places too. Of course, it doesn't have to be Samsung. This is my first SSD (besides the M.2 in my laptop). So other suggestions are certainly welcome. :)

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If not Samsung, what about Crucial? I've seen they've had some good reviews on Amazon and other places too. Of course, it doesn't have to be Samsung. This is my first SSD (besides the M.2 in my laptop). So other suggestions are certainly welcome. :)

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-internal-hard-drive-radeonr7ssd240g

I got this drive after Samsung.

It has been running for 2 weeks now. It feels awesome, it looks awesome and it runs slightly higher then advertised speeds (On write).

Really awesome drive.

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I know. But the 850 isn't affected by that issue. And that's what OP is referring to.

Just a trust thing for me personally.

 

If not Samsung, what about Crucial? I've seen they've had some good reviews on Amazon and other places too. Of course, it doesn't have to be Samsung. This is my first SSD (besides the M.2 in my laptop). So other suggestions are certainly welcome. :)

Crucial SSDs are good, though checking out the mSATA SSDs seems like the better way to go. SATA SSDs are slowly becoming a thing of the past.

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To be quite honest, it's really up to you for which drive to get. Yes, the Pro will perform better, but is it worth the ~50% price increase to you?

Either will be great options, I personally own a 250GB 850 Pro and use it as a boot drive, even after Office and Adobe CC installed (with atleast half the programs installed), I still have 140GB free.

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To be quite honest, it's really up to you for which drive to get. Yes, the Pro will perform better, but is it worth the ~50% price increase to you?

Either will be great options, I personally own a 250GB 850 Pro and use it as a boot drive, even after Office and Adobe CC installed (with atleast half the programs installed), I still have 140GB free.

I think I'm gonna go with the 850 EVO 500GB for $190. That's a great price and should last me a long time. Plenty of storage too. Much better price than the PRO's 512GB for $270.

You guys have been a lot of help. Thanks for all the replies! :)

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I think I'm gonna go with the 850 EVO 500GB for $190. That's a great price and should last me a long time. Plenty of storage too. Much better price than the PRO's 512GB for $270.

You guys have been a lot of help. Thanks for all the replies! :)

 

The EVO is an absolutely fine choice. The Pro can outpace it in several areas by a bit, but in a normal clientside workload the difference is unlikely to be noticeable in any way. Until NVMe drives are more readily available we're dang near the limit of both SATA III and the ATA command set.

 

Once you have 16GB or more of RAM you may wish to enable the RAPID caching feature. It is not suitable for everyone, but for most circumstances it's quite nice. I wouldn't plan on upgrading from the 850 EVO until NVMe (or similar) reaches mainstream. (The standards group has basically abandoned further SATA development at this point so *something* new will be upon us soon!)

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Grab MX100 or BX100 and stay clear of samsung garbage.

They screwed us once with 840 and 840evo.

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Grab MX100 or BX100 and stay clear of samsung garbage.

They screwed us once with 840 and 840evo.

 

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