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Looking for affordable yet good SSD

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After soo many years of hearing my HDD loading windows, grab a coffee while waiting and even getting the coffee cold while I finaly pass the Windows login, I decided to make the move! About time right?

I'm on a budget, not really looking for super high performance SSD but one that feels still fast enough. I was looking at the ARC – 100 from OCZ. What do you guys think?
 
How much are you looking to spend on an SSD?

Edit: The ARC-100 seems to get good reviews. I would get at least the 240GB one.
 
A very good value SSD. Honestly 9/10 you don't need 550MB/s read and write. This OCZ ARC is not designed to compete in the super high end but in the value segment, and it had great performance and an affordable price tag to go along with it.
 
What is "affordable" to you? $100? $200? $300?

What capacity are you looking for? 128ish? 256ish? 512ish?

The Intel 730 series is on sale at some retailers. The Samsung 840 EVO is a good value (soon to be replaced with the 850 EVO.
 
I would consider the Crucial MX100.

Edit: The Crucial M550 is only $10 more at amazon. I would say the performance difference is worth the $10.
 
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Personally I would stay far, far away from anything from OCZ. My information may be a decade out of date, but they used to be some shady mothers.
 
Any Crucial drive...MX100 or M550 are their current models.
Intel 730.
Samsung 840 Pro or 850 Pro.
SanDisk G25 (value) or Extreme Pro (rival to the 850 Pro).
 
drescherjm said:
I would consider the Crucial MX100.

Edit: The Crucial M550 is only $10 more at amazon. I would say the performance difference is worth the $10.
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Unless you end up going the 500GB+ route, in which case the MX100

The 512GB MX100 has been our go to drive for office upgrades at almost all of our clients.
The performance difference of it over the 256GB model is quite a bit.
 
AMD T-type said:
Unless you end up going the 500GB+ route, in which case the MX100

The 512GB MX100 has been our go to drive for office upgrades at almost all of our clients.
The performance difference of it over the 256GB model is quite a bit.
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There may realistically be mere seconds between the different capacities for boot time, but any capacity SSD with decent lineage, a good controller, and synchronous NAND is going to make a hell of a difference in system responsiveness over a HDD, like in OP's situation.
 
Decibel said:
Personally I would stay far, far away from anything from OCZ. My information may be a decade out of date, but they used to be some shady mothers.
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I've got 3 SSDs by OCZ in this computer, one of them is the original Agility series 60GB drive still kicking after all these years.

I've bought the Samsung Evo 840 for my laptop and a couple PCs, I think its a good drive and reasonably priced. You might be able to find it with a desktop kit for about $100 for the 120GB drive. OCZ Vertex has been a solid lineup....though I think they changed it to Storage Series or something like that with the newest generation. I think I've put in a Crucial MX series drive for a laptop.
 
I recommend the PNY XLR8 SSD. I have the 240GB model and paid about $80 for it, totally kicks ass and bootup times and file transfers have improved immensely.
 
ocer9999 said:
After OCZ got bought by Toshiba, I'd think that their quality have gotten better...
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From my understanding, they got few issues with Sandforce controlers.. other than that they did quite good using Barefoot 3 controlers right?
 
I recently got an crucial m550 512gb drive and i really like it. It is noticeable faster than my intel 520 180gb drive it replaced
 
felt said:
I recommend the PNY XLR8 SSD. I have the 240GB model and paid about $80 for it, totally kicks ass and bootup times and file transfers have improved immensely.
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I would stay away from PNY as well, along with kingston after their switching of parts in SSD for reviews.

Better options, and you know what your actually getting,.

Spend money wisely i would say and stick with Intel / Samsung / Crucial. Sandisk is nice if on sale, but anyone else is usually questionable or less performance.
 
For what its worth, I put a Crucial MX100 256gb in my Asus 1215n netbook and its decent. I almost bought another MX100 for my main rig. Samsung seems somewhat expensive. Best of luck.
 
MrGuvernment said:
I would stay away from PNY as well, along with kingston after their switching of parts in SSD for reviews.

Better options, and you know what your actually getting,.

Spend money wisely i would say and stick with Intel / Samsung / Crucial. Sandisk is nice if on sale, but anyone else is usually questionable or less performance.
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Nothing wrong with PNY in that regard. Kingston switched to inferior asynchronous NAND in their V300 series, but PNY did not...total myth. They openly admit that the Optima series is an entry-level SSD and they source multiple controllers to keep the costs down. They also advertise synchronous NAND and that is what you'll get in a PNY SSD. It's all stated on the product pages of their web site. They are not hiding a damn thing.

I've got a PNY Optima 240GB as the sole drive in my HTPC. It's fast, it's given me zero issues, and I would not hesitate to buy one again. The only reason why I am not recommending them this very second is because there are brands and models considered to be above entry-level that are the same price or very close to it if there is no discount code/mir for the Optima.
 
Seems that it goes in cycles...where sometimes Kingston is good, then Crucial and now seems that OCZ is not bad...but PNY I'd reconsider and how's their RMA?
 
I say that Crucial, Intel and Samsung were always good. And yes I know they all had some firmware issues.
 
I will go for the ARC-!00, took that amazon deal :D
Since they are part of toshiba now, Im a bit more relax on the reliability part
 
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