SSD Suggestions Under £100 & Compatible With A (Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 (rev. 1.0) Motherboard)

[ScottMC7000]

I've been doing a lot of video editing in the past 7 months which has incorporated lots of 3D animation that I've created in Cinema 4D. I've got the graphics card upgrad sorted with an AMD Sapphire RX570 8 Gig which arrived last week from overclockers and has been great since going from my old Nvidia Palit 1 Gig I got 9 years ago for my overclocked Core I7 920, 16 Gig ram system. Currently, I've been using Hitfilm for a big project, but it's still slow as hell to export a 1080P 10 minute film (almost 2 Hours, even with pre rendered proxies, timeline still sluggish also) and using my current 7200 RPM drives could well be the reason for the issue's, or perhaps it's that Hitfilm just sucks performance wise. In any case, the mobo is a first revision one, and with that, there was some issue's....

A quote I found on the net "All X58 chipset based motherboards use a Marvell controller for their SATA 3 (6Gb/s) ports.
The Marvell 9128 controller on your motherboard has a maximum data bandwidth of PCIe x1 at 5Gb/s (500MB/s)."

Due to cost per gigabyte of SSD's compared to what you get with traditional hard drives, I've never really felt the need to get an SSD, boot time... this hasn't been a big deal really either so I've sat without them for this long. I've not really kept track of the developments of them other than reading a few articles over the years... but I see there's PCI-E ones also... My mobo has an extra two of those with 3 way SLI slots on them..and then there are the ordinary ones you see.

Size wise, I'm looking at the largest I can get, my current operating system hard drive is 500 Gig Western Digital just for reference, and I have 2 Terabyte and One Terabyte drives for storage.

 

[ScottMC7000]

Thanks for the replies... right now I'm in the middle of clearing out over 100 gigs of data from my existing drives after noticing the one that was being read that contained the video files for the project had fallen down to just 343Kb's, whilst my main OS 'C' drive was down to 16 gigs :-O. I do also have an extra 1 Gig drive but that's used for Linux Mint 18 but that's not writable in Windows, just readable though a drive utility program. I'm running Windows 7 64 atm, and have been since the first installation of it on my current drive, of which it has only ever had one installation of. I'll probably need to defrag them after the clear out, well the main OS drive anyway which is a 500 Gig. I read the PCI slot based SSD's are not compatible with anything other than Windows 10, dunno if that would apply to Linux too though. So with that, I'll probably look at something more conventional SSD wise that will work well enough... I've got a few questions relating to some of your posts but I'll ask them later... cheers.