Which 1TB SSD to get?

TobyRoberts · May 27, 2016

I'm currently looking to upgrade my PC by putting a 1TB SSD in (on top of the 240GB one I have already). It will be mainly for installing the ridiculous amount of games in my Steam library that I impulse bought when they were on sale and now can't install.

The ones I'm considering are the Samsung 850 evo (shockingly), Mushkin Reactor, Sandisk X400 and Sandisk Ultra II.

I currently have a Sandisk SSD which works really well, so I guess my question is, will I really notice the improvement in performance of the more expensive Samsung and Mushkin over the now £70 cheaper Ultra II. I'm never a fan of putting older components in but I don't want to spend an extra £70/£80 if I'm not going to really notice a difference. I know the Sandisk is slaughtered in the benchmarks but I'm never sure how these actually transfer into real world performance. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Morad Tamer · May 27, 2016

Did you think of a normal HDD ??

TobyRoberts · May 27, 2016

Morad Tamer :

Yeah, kind of. My PC is very small and heat, noise and power usage are very important so I guess I just discounted HDDs straight away, perhaps unfairly. I really like the fast load times I get installing games on the SSD at the moment - I play quite a lot of massive open world games so it's been really great for that.
But to be fair I don't necessarily know if they would be that much worse, if a decent 7,200rpm 2.5" HDD would still give good load times and not be too hot/noisy I'd definitely consider it.

FireWire2 · May 27, 2016

TobyRoberts :

If you can afford 1TB SSD, may as well use this:
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-PCIe-1-2TB-Internal-SSDPEDMW012T4R5
Sequential Read: up to 2,400MB/s
Sequential Write: up to 1,200MB/s

Morad Tamer · May 27, 2016

Well to be honest a 2.5" HDD can be as hot as 70 degrees celsius and it can be noisy a little bit and of course it would be much more slower in the matter of games loading times (maybe 3X slower or more .......)
SO
If you want a silent HDD go with the WD Green but on the other hand WD Blavk is much more faster but you compromise the silence
and I would really recommend a WD Black for your case it very durable and fast for your needs but you can't compare a SSD to a HDD

JohnnyLucky · May 28, 2016

I maintain an ssd database listed in a sticky at the very top of this forum section. Here is the link:

http://www.johnnylucky.org/data-storage/ssd-database.html

Scroll down to the SATA 3 6Gb/s section where you will find the brands and models you mentioned along with many other brands and models. The database provides basic information and links to technical reviews. Follow the links to the technical reviews. The reviews are divide into two sections - English language reviews and reviews in many other languages. This is strictly a hobby so there is no advertising.

TobyRoberts · May 31, 2016

Thankyou for the help! I've tried moving things around in the case but unfortunately the new drive basically has to be stuck to the old one so SSD is the only way to go, but I did like the look of the WD Black. JohnnyLuckys database is really.good and useful, it helped a lot, thankyou.

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