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Hello, I would like to buy an SSD. Preferably in the 500gb range. What is a good one and a cheap place to buy them? All the stores I know of are charging like 75 cents a gig. Also, how are they installed? Do they go in PCI slots or do they install like normal hard drives? Will they work with my Asus M2A-VM HDMI motheroard?
 
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In my opinion Crucial and OCZ make the cheapest SSDS around a 500mb/s range and a 500 gb one would cost you between 300 and 500 USD. They're are two types of SSDS Pci-e AND SATA (plugs in like a hard drive) PCIE ssds tend to be way more expensive but give you way better performance but should mainly be used for servers. An sata ssd would work perfectly with your motherboard if they both use the same SATA version (ex Sata II SSD with Sata II mobo (or 3.0gb/s)) and same thing with PCI-E.
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In my opinion Crucial and OCZ make the cheapest SSDS around a 500mb/s range and a 500 gb one would cost you between 300 and 500 USD. They're are two types of SSDS Pci-e AND SATA (plugs in like a hard drive) PCIE ssds tend to be way more expensive but give you way better performance but should mainly be used for servers. An sata ssd would work perfectly with your motherboard if they both use the same SATA version (ex Sata II SSD with Sata II mobo (or 3.0gb/s)) and same thing with PCI-E.
 
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A good high quality, yet realitvely cheap SSD, is the Samsung 840 EVO.
They are installed the same as a regular hard disk is, only usually require screwing them into place or using a special mounting bracket to fit in a 3.5" slot.
If your motherboard has a SATA (6Gb/s) connection, they will work.
 
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Thank you. What is the difference between SATA SSD's and FLASH SSD's?
 
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PCI-E storage is usually called flash storage by OEMs they usually are used to save size in compact devices (ex macbook air) since they save size and they give better performance, but they tend to have a smaller capacity and a bigger price per gb but unless you are working with an extremely thin computer or you have a high budget then you shouldnt go with them besides a regular SATA ssd should give you amazing overkill read and write speed to the limit that pcie SSDS would only give a noticable difference on servers
(HONESTLY i admit i dont know the exact difference but that is what i think the difference is but im positive that Flash storage falls under the SSD category)


 
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