Need a new hard drive (nothing mechanical)

KungFuSpaghetti · 17 May 2019 at 10:26

Hello helpful people of OCUK. I'm after a bit of advice, I have x6 240GB Kingston SSD's and have pretty much filled them all, so looking to retire one or two of them and get a 1TB drive. I was thinking of M2, but to be honest, this is purely a gaming rig so they seem kinda pointless.

Can someone recommend a 1TB SSD? I've seen the usual Evo's, but they are significantly more expensive than others out there... is it worth the extra cost? I don't mind paying the extra, as I've got £1500 to play with for upgrades, so some of that will be new CPU (when they finally arrive!) and I'll keep the rest to put to a new GPU (not a 2080 or 2080ti seeing as literally everyone I know with one has had them die!).

Anyway, thanks in advance!

heatonpkmassive · 17 May 2019 at 17:38

Crucial MX500, I've just bought another 1Tb one in the last half hour so that'll be six SSDs and not a mechanical drive in sight. Got a nice USB 3.0 caddy off the rainforest so figured I could put any mechanical drives in there.

But the Crucial is great for the price.

KungFuSpaghetti · 17 May 2019 at 20:35

I just picked up an AData 1tb for £80... Couldn't resist at that price!

Rannoch · 17 May 2019 at 20:44

Samsung 1TB 860 QVO SSD. About £100.

And do you have backups?

PiKe · 17 May 2019 at 20:49

KungFuSpaghetti said:
I just picked up an AData 1tb for £80... Couldn't resist at that price!

Bit pants as they dram-less, don't go any lower than a Samsung Evo for system drive.

KungFuSpaghetti · 17 May 2019 at 21:09

I've got 6 Kingston drives inn already, so this is just to store stuff on and additional steam library.

MagicBoy · 17 May 2019 at 22:00

MX500, job done.