first ssd!

[blitzilla]

Im not  a   Data  hugger,  ive  had the  same hdd for  3 years  and theres  only 160gb of data on it.
im looking for my first ssd  ever

my setup : 
r3 1200
8gb ddr4  3000mhz ram
1tb   hdd
b350 microatx board
650tiboost 2gb
 

can I get  some  suggestion on  SSD  Heres  some (CANADA)
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147674
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820147676

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA9H579B8776
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820242400

[Electronics Wizardy]

how much do you want to spend?

 

look at the mx500, 660p and sx8200 aswell

[DVA]

Personally I have the Samsung 860 evo ssd 500gb, That should last you a long time and it's a great ssd with a great boot up time.

[ManEatingFridge]

If you don't need a lot of space then Patriot Burst Series 480GB or I guess for you even 240GB is the best value right now. If you have a bigger budget then keep in mind that you dont feel the jump to the absolute fastest NVME SSDs from regular ones. 

[JacobFW]

Sandisk & Intel are good, but overall I prefer Samsung. 

 

I'd recommend avoiding OCZ.  I don't know what the overall reliability is, but I've had two of them die in less than a year.  One was doa, and the other I got lucky and managed to catch before any dataloss occurred.   

 

Western Digital recently bought Sandisk, so I think they're just rebranding Sandisk's ssd's.  Overall however I would probably avoid them for now.  I don't think they're necessarily bad, just unproven at this point.

 

Those are the main brands I have experience with. 

 

Size wise, I'd probably go ahead and get a 500gb.

 

Minitool Partition Wizard is great for migrating data from an hdd to an ssd.

 

 

Also if I had to hazard a guess I'd say that the hard drive you have now is an oem model, and at 3 years old you should definitely consider replacing it as soon as you can.