Which SSD for laptop? (Intel 530, Samsung 840 EVO or Kingston Hyper-X 3K)


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These are my options from the company:

  • 120GB Samsung EVO 840 (?63)
  • 120GB Kingston Hyper-X 3K (?65)
  • 120GB Intel 530 (?75)
  • 180GB Intel 530 (?104)
  • 250GB Samsung EVO 840 (?113)
  • 240GB Kingston Hyper-X 3K (?122)
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Why do you have a range of capacities? Choose a capacity first, how much space do you need?

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Why do you have a range of capacities? Choose a capacity first, how much space do you need?

They're the 6 options the company I'm getting the custom-built laptop from offer.

 

I think I'll go for the 120GB Samsung EVO 840 (?63).

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They're the 6 options the company I'm getting the custom-built laptop from offer.

 

I think I'll go for the 120GB Samsung EVO 840 (?63).

Fair enough! Since it's not your money (I hope), go for the 250 GB 840 Evo, highest capacity in the list and great performance.
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I'd definitely get the 250GB EVO since that gives you all the space you could need plus a lil more :P - more spare space is better when it comes to SSDs!

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I'd definitely get the 250GB EVO since that gives you all the space you could need plus a lil more :p - more spare space is better when it comes to SSDs!

I bought a 120 GB EVO 840 as a boot drive and a 750GB WD Scorpio Black (7,200 RPM) HDD for game installations.

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Divide cost over GB and thats your value, if you are comparing prices. Other than that look to warranties. I have an 840 Evo and its plenty fast, literal 2x that of my sandisk drive. Unless you are base-lining it against another SSD they are all great choices. I would recommend more space than you need, and also a backup method to another storage.

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840 EVO for sure, I've got the 500GB and its brilliant.

If you can get the 250GB, you'd be surprised how quickly you can fill it, especially if you put the odd game on, modern ones like BF4 or Titanfall can be 40-50GB

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Whatever you choose, stay hefty boot's kick away from HyperX 3K. I don't know what Kingston is putting in there, but these things *die*. And it's strange, because, on the other hand, all their V-series from 100 to 300 have been super-reliable, if more on the tardy side.

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Whatever you choose, stay hefty boot's kick away from HyperX 3K. I don't know what Kingston is putting in there, but these things *die*. And it's strange, because, on the other hand, all their V-series from 100 to 300 have been super-reliable, if more on the tardy side.

 

I still have a Kingston V180 in my Thinkpad T410 and still kicking - it's about 3yrs old now. With only 64GB on it too I regularly filled it to 10KB left! LOL. Left mIRC running overnight sometimes and it downloaded all my downloads and filled It up but it's still going just fine.

 

I have a MyDigitalSSD m.2 128GB SSD this time so we'll see how this goes.

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pick which one suits you the best & not what others say to get

 

i myself am fine with my 120gb kingston hyper x

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