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Hoopiee
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I'd recommend either a samsung, intel or crucial drive, e.g Samsung 850 EVO 120GB, Intel 530 or Crucial M550/MX100 120GB. These drives would all cost you under $100 US and you can probably find some on sale.

Samsung?

 

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840 Evo = No

 

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

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8997/samsung-releases-statement-on-840-evo-performance-another-fix-is-in-the-works

http://www.pcper.com/news/Storage/Samsung-Promises-Another-Fix-840-EVO-Slow-Down-Issue

 

I think the Crucial MX100 and BX100 are great bang for buck drives, anything faster and you won't notice the speed difference

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Hey Guys, Iv been looking for a 240GB SSD for a few months now, I don't have a huge budget (Around 80 GB Pounds (£)) 

Mainly going to be used for storing OS and Games.

The ones I've looked at recently are;

 

 
Kingston Fury 240GB 2.5" - http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/kingston-internal-hard-drive-shfs37a240g

I can't decide which is better between these two.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
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Hey Guys, Iv been looking for a 240GB SSD for a few months now, I don't have a huge budget (Around 80 GB Pounds (£)) 

Mainly going to be used for storing OS and Games.

The ones I've looked at recently are;

 

 
Kingston Fury 240GB 2.5" - http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/kingston-internal-hard-drive-shfs37a240g

I can't decide which is better between these two.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

 

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/crucial-internal-hard-drive-ct256mx100ssd1

 

Excellent price:performance drive, get that

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I was literally just looking at that SSD lol. What about the samsung 850 Evo though? isnt Linus a advocate of that drive?

I'm preferring this drive atm

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What should I get guys Crucial MX 200 or 850 EVO? Which one will boot and work faster?

They would be really really close in performance, so I would go for the cheaper. Samsung is known for its relaiability so thats why many servers use samsung SSDs. Personally, I just bought myself a crucial mx100, as the read speeds were supposed to be slightly faster than the samsung, with slightly slower writing. If you are worried about boot speed and gaming speed, the faster reading drive is better as you wont be writing often at all.

Some people were soured by samsung's 840evo, which was a lot slower than advertized due to some production problems with nand. However the other samsung products have had no issues, and even older 840 evos don't have the problem.

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