Is this SSD worth?

[Od1sseas]

Is the Kingston A400 120GB worth for 25€?

[dizmo]

Worth is subjective. Only you can answer that.

[AngryBeaver]

31 minutes ago, Od1sseas said:

Is the Kingston A400 120GB worth for 25€?

Imo in this day and age any SSD with a capacity less than 240gb is pretty much worthless.

[chckovsky]

If you want an SSD purely for OS, with games and stuff on mechanical hard drives, 120 GB is fine. The A400 is also an ok SSD, certainly not the worst of the budget SSDs. However, 240 is usually not that much more expensive. It's really up to you and your budget.

[Od1sseas]

On 7/13/2018 at 4:01 PM, AngryBeaver said:

Imo in this day and age any SSD with a capacity less than 240gb is pretty much worthless.

I just want to install Windows 10 on it with some small programs like CCleaner etc. Nothing else.

Also the 240GB is 60€

[Od1sseas]

On 7/13/2018 at 4:05 PM, chckovsky said:

If you want an SSD purely for OS, with games and stuff on mechanical hard drives, 120 GB is fine. The A400 is also an ok SSD, certainly not the worst of the budget SSDs. However, 240 is usually not that much more expensive. It's really up to you and your budget.

Yes. This SSD will be only for Windows 10 and programs like CCleaner,Steam etc. Games and any huge files will be on my 1TB HDD

[DeLorian]

On 15/07/2018 at 11:58 AM, Od1sseas said:

Yes. This SSD will be only for Windows 10 and programs like CCleaner,Steam etc. Games and any huge files will be on my 1TB HDD

Then it will be enough. I use 128GB for my OS and apps needs and it suffices.

[AngryBeaver]

On 7/15/2018 at 3:57 AM, Od1sseas said:

I just want to install Windows 10 on it with some small programs like CCleaner etc. Nothing else.

Also the 240GB is 60€

I understand that, but in general having 240+ is a big advantage over 120. There is a speed difference in most cases, which is a pretty big plus. The next issue is that SSD's don't store data in the same way as an HDD. They can't just write over data and keep moving, they have to perform a task for writing over an area with all 0's in order to clean that area and make it accessible to be used again this is known as (trim). So in order to do this your SSD will need to set aside a good chunk of the maximum storage that will be accessible to windows that allows the drive to maintain itself.I think this is somewhere in the ballpark of 15-20% storage. So if you have a 120GB SSD.. then count on only seeing about 96gb of it (less if you account for manufacture's thinking 1000mb = 1 gb  when it is actually 1024mb = 1 gb

 

So in the end you will have a slower drive that is going to be starved for space. Now your prices there might be out of whack, because here I can pick up a 240gb drive for about 45 bucks (35 if I use micro-centers brand)  if I want to bump that to a 512gb drive then it will set me back anywhere from 65-100. Now that being said a 128gb drive is about 28-35 bucks for most brands... so the cost to jump up to 240 isn't bad at all.

[MrRodmann]

On 13/07/2018 at 9:30 AM, Od1sseas said:

Is the Kingston A400 120GB worth for 25€?

Nope its a Seagate Momentus 750Gb 7200rpm