Upgrading SSD Drive

Jeramba · 30 May 2016 at 22:25

Hi,

At the moment my PC is nearly five years old. I have two drives a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache which my games on. I also have a Corsair 120GB Force GT SSD - 2.5" SATA-III 6Gb/s which Win 7 is installed on. I did have some games on but had to move them to the other drive due to lack of space.

I've updated my Bios on my MB and bought a new MSI 970 graphics card and fitted a better cooler for my MB.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=29405536#post29405536

I was about to reinstall Win 7 since I don't think my PC is running as fast as I believe it should. But it seems you can buy a decent size SSD for a good price.

I'm undecided which one though ?

Ideally I'd want to run three Hard drives (keep the two I've got). One for the OS, games and storage respectively.

My question is whether this is ideal with my set-up ? I think a 400-500 GB drive would be ideal ?

Thanks for your help

J

Bigminimus · 5 Jun 2016 at 02:46

i have a 1Tb samsung evo 840 drive. It's quick and comes with good utilities. I've written 20 Tb onto it so far and it's still workin fine. I got it for around £240

Jeramba · 13 Jun 2016 at 23:25

I really don't want to spend much over £100 so a 500 GB might be a good bet. The Samsung looks good. I see quite a variation in prices though. Toshiba drives seem quite cheap compared to the rest. I'm also a bit wary since there are a few bad reviews (all makes of SSD) on the net. So there must be a fair percentage of drives thatt don't last a long time ?

Thanks

J

AiiR · 14 Jun 2016 at 00:49

Look out for deals on sandisk drives, they're often ~£70-80 for 500gb and are plenty quick and reliable.

phenx · 14 Jun 2016 at 19:22

The samsung 850 evo is genrally considered to be the best mid tier drive. I'd go for the 500gb.

Jeramba · 14 Jun 2016 at 23:42

Some good ideas thanks.....

cadmunkey · 15 Jun 2016 at 01:19

Another vote for the samsungs (I have five of them) but if the Sandisk drives are really that cheap then they are probably worth the punt

Minstadave · 15 Jun 2016 at 01:46

750 Evo has recently come out and looks a solid performer too.

Disco_P · 17 Jun 2016 at 20:08

I can vouch for he SanDisk ssd plus. I use the 120GB version in my laptop and it is very fast. My desktop with a Samsung 830 is not noticeably quicker despite having a quad core 4.7Ghz 3570K vs a dual core (with hyperthreading) 2520m 2.5Ghz.

Rannoch · 17 Jun 2016 at 20:38

I have installed EVOs and Sandisk SSD drives. Both are very good, there was a deal on the 960GB the other day on A.