SSD Advice.

jwink86 · 6 Jul 2015 at 18:58

Hi All, Wanted to know if someone could offer some advice on a SSD Upgrade.

With Windows 10 just around the corner was thinking its about time I performed a full system rebuild. I'm hoping to pick up a couple of 500GB SSD's and stick em in a raid 0.

Could anyone offer a couple of choices for 500GB SSD's? Ive seen the Samsung Evo 500Gb going quite cheap recently but don't know how good these are.

My current motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD4-B3 so I have a couple of Sata 3.0 Ports.

Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers

Troezar · 6 Jul 2015 at 19:01

In the same boat and looking at the Samsung. I don't think there is any real point in RAID 0 for SSDs. If you can afford it is go for a 1TB drive.

wazza300 · 6 Jul 2015 at 19:46

yeah better to go one single ssd

jwink86 · 7 Jul 2015 at 14:08

Cheers for the info guys, better start looking at 1tb drives then. Any recommendations? Any with known issues?

ED209 · 7 Jul 2015 at 14:20

i did try my Samsung 840s in raid and to be honest I couldn't notice any speed difference for gaming and loading programs to single drives.

i kept them as single drives as the magician software couldn't see the drives nor could i do any firmware updates as they where showing as intel drives due to the raid setup.

i would keep them as single drives as raiding them is pointless unless you need the speed from raiding the two drives.

do you have a budget for your SSD?

you can get the Samsung 850 evos for 149.99 each atm off OCUK or the Crucial one for the same price

some options below

YOUR BASKET
1 x SK Hynix 512GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (HFS512G32MNB-2202A) £155.99
1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU) £155.99
1 x Kingston 480GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/480G) £139.99
1 x Crucial BX100 500GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT500BX100SSD1) £139.99
Total : £601.56 (includes shipping : £8.00 Ex.VAT).

ED209 · 7 Jul 2015 at 14:32

jwink86 said:
Cheers for the info guys, better start looking at 1tb drives then. Any recommendations? Any with known issues?

the only SSDs I know of which had issues was the 840 evos with slowness over time which should be fixed by the latest firmware they released.

jwink86 · 7 Jul 2015 at 15:11

Ahh I remember there being issues with one of the Samsung drives but couldn't remember which one. No real budget for the SSD but now thinking 500GB single drive would be enough, Ive got a 830 currently and had no problems with it (just running out of space).

Thanks for the info once again ill take a closer look at the ones listed.

ED209 · 7 Jul 2015 at 16:11

jwink86 said:
Ahh I remember there being issues with one of the Samsung drives but couldn't remember which one. No real budget for the SSD but now thinking 500GB single drive would be enough, Ive got a 830 currently and had no problems with it (just running out of space).

Thanks for the info once again ill take a closer look at the ones listed.

could always use your 830 for OS and then use a single 500gb ssd for storage. should free up some space on your OS drive then