Which SSD should I buy for my laptop?

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The hard drive on my Toshiba Satellite L875D-S7332 just broke. I'm thinking about replacing it with a solid state drive. I would really appreciate some advice on which brand/model to purchase. Thanks!
 
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Last week I bought a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB from Tmall, China's largest online retailer, at 679RMB= $110.

Last night I took out all the screws on the back of the laptop, which i bought in the year of 2011, a pretty old one i guess. Luckily, the BIOS recognized the SSD drive right after i switched it on and then installed windows 7 ultimate. The installation process went smoothly, and enountered no problem. btw, my laptop is ACER ASPIRE 4253.. I believe the chipset has been updated for so many time i cannot number.

It turns out the booting of win7 is much faster than the previous HDD. Yet 34s was out of my expectation. I have thought that it might be within 10s of booting, actually it is not like that.

First, prepare a USB...
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The stock drive had 640GB of space. I'm not sure if I need that much, but I'll have to download a few stats programs for my work that take up a lot of space, along with a lot of papers I reference and all of the normal things. I think I'd like at least 400 or so.
 
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Thanks! Do you know what makes that model so much more expensive than other samsung SSDs like, say, the 500GB 850 EVO? Does it perform that much better?
 
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Oh my, that is expensive, an 850 evo would be a great choice.

 
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Last week I bought a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB from Tmall, China's largest online retailer, at 679RMB= $110.

Last night I took out all the screws on the back of the laptop, which i bought in the year of 2011, a pretty old one i guess. Luckily, the BIOS recognized the SSD drive right after i switched it on and then installed windows 7 ultimate. The installation process went smoothly, and enountered no problem. btw, my laptop is ACER ASPIRE 4253.. I believe the chipset has been updated for so many time i cannot number.

It turns out the booting of win7 is much faster than the previous HDD. Yet 34s was out of my expectation. I have thought that it might be within 10s of booting, actually it is not like that.

First, prepare a USB bootable drive, and all the drivers needed after the installation of the new windows system. And you will find that 4K alignment is absolutely not a problem. but before you install the system, please make sure you have had change SATA mode from IDE into AHCI in BIOS.

Good luck, bro
 
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