Best "budget" SSD?

Unless you're some kind of power user I doubt you'd notice a difference between most of the top brands, but yes, the MX300 is a decent performer for it's price.

It's not as fast as the 850 EVO, but it's also priced accordingly.
 
I've had good success with used drives from auction sites.

The pound devaluation hasn't helped, my recent drives came from USA refurb places e.g. £120 for 600gb enterprise ssd.

For new, I would look at the MX300
 
I keep hearing good things about the MX300s and also the Kingston V200s as budget SSDs but everyone here swears by Sammys, depends how much you want to pay though as I'd happily pay £10 more for Samungs "perceived" reliability.
 
MegaMasher said:
I've got a kingston V200, its quick does the job so I don't see the need to purchase a more expensive SSD
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I agree to a certain degree as I still have 2 OCZ drives (running absolutely fine I must add) but I spend all day fixing PCs so don't want to spend my evening doing it as well.

That being said if it's a huge price difference then it comes into play a bit more as I find it harder to justify it when the price difference is several pints of looney juice ;)
 
Seems to be a bad time to buy, if you're budget conscious. Apparently prices will keep going up this quarter and next. But next year should see a lot more 3D Nand capacity, and higher density chips (72 layer vs 48 layer).

Right now there's a shortage of chips, and there's no 3D MLC consumer drives yet either.

That said, I would have snapped up the 750GB MX300 for £105 that I saw on Black Friday, had it not sold out before I could place an order :/

Now I'm just hoping that a 1TB EVO goes sale some time this week. Otherwise it's a long wait till next year for me.
 
If your into the top end of performance Samsung is the best option with intel coming second. Any other uses any SSD will do the job just look to save money.
 
I just go for the cheapest with a decent controller and with okay memory, I learnt after buying the 840 Evo it isn't worth spending big on them.
 
To be honest I see no real difference between Samsung Pro's, Evo's, and Sandisk Extreme's, all three are used as OS drives here, the load times and general feel of use is indistinguishable to me at the desktop. Would have to benchmark and time real world tasks but fact is you cant justify a few seconds here on a home PC.
 
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