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Im looking to spend around £60 ($86 USD) on an SSD.

Will likely need about 240GB for OS and a few games.

Whats the best value at the moment?

 

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Crucial BX200 is what i'd go for on a cheap.

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2 minutes ago, Pearsonia said:

Im looking to spend around £60 ($86 USD) on an SSD.

Will likely need about 240GB for OS and a few games.

Whats the best value at the moment?

 

Thanks

250GB 850 EVO is your best bet, though, I do not know its prices in the UK. 

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10 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

Well, with an i7, GTX 1080, Full tower and flashy lights, it can obviously only be for one thing:

Solitaire. 

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3 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

250GB 850 EVO is your best bet, though, I do not know its prices in the UK. 

It's roughly sixty pounds.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-inch-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B00P736UEU

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Samsung 850 evo, it's around £60 and trumps anything else out there if you ask me that isn't M.2.

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Just now, SirCallow said:

It's roughly sixty pounds.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-inch-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B00P736UEU

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10 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

Well, with an i7, GTX 1080, Full tower and flashy lights, it can obviously only be for one thing:

Solitaire. 

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10 minutes ago, Thorium19 said:

Samsung 850 evo, it's around £60 and trumps anything else out there if you ask me that isn't M.2.

So that's why my cheap SanDisk boots just as quick as my expensive 850 Evo...
 

17 minutes ago, Pearsonia said:

Im looking to spend around £60 ($86 USD) on an SSD.

Will likely need about 240GB for OS and a few games.

Whats the best value at the moment?

 

Thanks

I highly recommend either the BX200 or the SP550.
http://skinflint.co.uk/adata-premier-sp550-240gb-asp550ss3-240gm-c-a1308228.html?hloc=uk
http://skinflint.co.uk/crucial-bx200-240gb-ct240bx200ssd1-a1348109.html?hloc=uk

The BX200 will be fast enough for your needs and I actually just post the SP550 as an alternative for it if the BX200 isn't available for example.

 

 

 

 

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11 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

So that's why my cheap SanDisk boots just as quick as my expensive 850 Evo...
 

I highly recommend either the BX200 or the SP550.
http://skinflint.co.uk/adata-premier-sp550-240gb-asp550ss3-240gm-c-a1308228.html?hloc=uk
http://skinflint.co.uk/crucial-bx200-240gb-ct240bx200ssd1-a1348109.html?hloc=uk

The BX200 will be fast enough for your needs and I actually just post the SP550 as an alternative for it if the BX200 isn't available for example.

read speeds on most SSDs are very similar, it's the endurance and write speeds that make the difference, and the 850 evo has a greater endurance than pretty much every other SSD out there.

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1 minute ago, Thorium19 said:

read speeds on most SSDs are very similar, it's the endurance and write speeds that make the difference, and the 850 evo has a greater endurance than pretty much every other SSD out there.

We're talking about a boot drive.
How much data do you write at once to your boot drive? Probably not enough to fill the SLC-cache.
Endurance isn't a problem either. In a test made by PC-Perspective we can see that even the worst drives can easily run for more than 20 years until they die. Until then SATA 3 is history.

 

 

 

 

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