Elliot B. Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian M. Veteran Posted July 10, 2014 Veteran Share Posted July 10, 2014 Personally, I'd spend a couple extra $$ and go for an 840 pro instead of an evo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Why do you have a range of capacities? Choose a capacity first, how much space do you need? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot B. Posted July 10, 2014 Author Share Posted July 10, 2014 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted July 10, 2014 Veteran Share Posted July 10, 2014 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot B. Posted July 10, 2014 Author Share Posted July 10, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Of that list the Samsung is the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted July 10, 2014 Supervisor Share Posted July 10, 2014 I'd recommend the 250 GB EVO. It's worth it not to have to worry about drive capacity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aergan Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 250GB Samsung EVO 840 does not dissapoint Bigkaye 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COKid Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Love my Intel 530 Series SSD (240GB). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigkaye Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astra.Xtreme Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 The best deal is easily the 250GB Evo. I'd highly recommend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philcruicks Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardsim7 Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 The Sandisk Ultra Plus is a good option too :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre S. Veteran Posted July 11, 2014 Veteran Share Posted July 11, 2014 It's nice to be able to put some games on the SSD, i.e. the ones you play most. Just say bye-bye to loading times. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phouchg Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted July 11, 2014 Veteran Share Posted July 11, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-scratch Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 pick which one suits you the best & not what others say to get i myself am fine with my 120gb kingston hyper x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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