1Tb SSD for games library

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Thinking the Sandisk 960Gb is the way to go at <£200 but does anyone here have any experience with the Sandisk 960GB 2.5" SATA3 Ultra II?

Just moved back into PC gaming and have run out of space after just 3 game downloads with the limited 256Gb SSD that I started with.

Want to move my Steam library to a larger capacity drive, this the one to get or are there better options out there for the money?
 
Would love a few of those but my budget is only £200 unfortunately.

I know the 1Tb Samsung 850 Evo is <£300 but it's still 50% dearer than the Sandisk I quoted.

For my Steam library, can't see what benefit the extra 50% cost would bring but now that I've made the jump to SSD's I can't face getting a large capacity HDD and bottlenecking my gaming.
 
I got the sandisk 960 for just the reason you are thinking about,my steam library :)
Works fine here,it is a little bit slower than the Samsung,I had the evo before but could not justify the expense of a 1 tb sammy
 
Cheers for the info. I'm guessing we're talking a couple of extra seconds load time rather than anywhere as slow as a HDD?
 
Minstadave said:
I doubt it's even that TBH, there's very little between SSDs in the real world.
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This, Having in the past had 3TB of SSD storage for my games i would not do it again until i could get that for the same price as a HDD today. The benefit is so minute you are better of really having for example a 240GB ssd for windows and one or two games that you play ALL the time.

And a storage drive for the remainder. Remember though you will go through a nightmare downloading your entire steam library if it's substantial.

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First world problems :(
 
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I have the 960gb Sandisk and it's really nice for steam directory, I would not pay more for a quicker one as really won't make any difference...all I would say is they come up in offer at around £150 quite a lot....
 
I have 2 of those Sandisk drives... one is used solely for Steam/Origin games... the other is for more general storage... I got them for £150 each though, so hard to complain.

They're one of the slowest drives I've seen in recent years... for 4k random read/writes etc... but for sequential they are faster than a mechanical drive and silent, which is the main reason I wanted SSD vs spinning platter.
 
Yeah, figured by the price that they aren't performance parts but you guys have helpfully confirmed what I thought. I'll have to keep an eye out for special offers.

Fortunately I've just been gifted with two more 128Gb SSD's which will see me through for now. Hand me downs from a mate. Still, I'm not complaining. :)
 
Well I've found it for £180, 30 seconds walk from where I'm working today. Might just bite the bullet and go and pick it up today as it'll save me having to faff about at later date.
 
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