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You don't need an 850 Evo. Especially not as a boot drive.

I would recommend you to get a BX100. It's only $58 and performs very well. Those drives are also pretty reliable and well known.

https://pcpartpicker.com/part/crucial-internal-hard-drive-ct120bx100ssd1

If it really needs to be under $50, then you should have a look at the Adata SP610 and Patriot Blaze.
But you'll have to do some research. I have heard pretty good things about those drives.
 

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Hey!, I'm currently looking for a ssd around the $50 range, I'm on a tight budget at the moment. I was looking around and found these two ssd's, and was wondering what would be the better choice. I was also doing some research about the Kingston ssd and it seems like they switched NAND's and now the ssd's are much slower and I also saw that the new firmware is making the ssd perform not as well. I also saw the silicon power ssd was having similar issues. Any other budget ssd's around $50?, should I just spend the extra 20-30bucks and get a EVO 850? 

Any help and/or opinions are appreciated. thanks :)

EDIT: I should add the ssd will be a boot drive, and for some core programs and drivers.

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You don't need an 850 Evo. Especially not as a boot drive.

I would recommend you to get a BX100. It's only $58 and performs very well. Those drives are also pretty reliable and well known.

https://pcpartpicker.com/part/crucial-internal-hard-drive-ct120bx100ssd1

If it really needs to be under $50, then you should have a look at the Adata SP610 and Patriot Blaze.
But you'll have to do some research. I have heard pretty good things about those drives.
 

 

 

 

 

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You don't need an 850 Evo. Especially not as a boot drive.

 

Im using 2 250GB 840 evos in RAID 0 for boot soooooo

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BX100 or Samsung 850 EVO 120GB.

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Im using 2 250GB 840 evos in RAID 0 for boot soooooo

Why do you need a 120GB SSD then? ôo

Edit: Oh wait, wrong guy xD

 

 

 

 

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You don't need an 850 Evo. Especially not as a boot drive.

I would recommend you to get a BX100. It's only $58 and performs very well. Those drives are also pretty reliable and well known.

https://pcpartpicker.com/part/crucial-internal-hard-drive-ct120bx100ssd1

If it really needs to be under $50, then you should have a look at the Adata SP610 and Patriot Blaze.

But you'll have to do some research. I have heard pretty good things about those drives.

 

I'm gonna go for the BX100, seems like a solid drive for the price. Thanks everyone for the help.

Vulcan (Main): Intel Xeon E3-1241 V3 | MSI GTX 1060 Armor OC | G. Skill Sniper 16GB + 4GB @1600  | Crucial BX100 120GB, 1TB WD Caviar Blue, 2TB Seagate Barracuda, 1TB External Seagate Portable | EVGA 650 GQ | Cryorig H7 | NZXT Source 210 Elite

Carbon (Laptop): Lenovo ThinkPad x230 | Core i7 3520m | 8GB Memory (2x4GB)  | 180GB SSD, Sandisk Ultra 128GB SD Card

 

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Mushkin Eco2s are up there in speed with the BX series and MX series. Pretty impressive for the price.

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