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dragonoar

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So I am going to buy an SSD soon. I need your recommendation.
I have around 45$ budget and I want an SSD that is fast and reliable (I will be using it for years).
The capacity is not important (I already have a 2TB hdd) so 80 GB is enough (the more the better though).
Also, since this will be my first time handling an SSD, I need some tips,do's and dont's with SSD.
I've heard about the SSD write cycle thing so there's no way I'm gonna install games on the SSD (just OS,steam and dota 2).

Thanks
 
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jetfighter545
Any SSD is far better than a hard drive, so if you spend $45 USD you'll get a decent 120GB one. You can't really get many smaller than that, 60GB SSDs are hard to find and 80GB doesn't exist. About the don't-do's; don't get a recording software that will constantly record like shadowplay, and if you do, turn off the shadow part of it. The write cycle isn't actually that threatening, you make it sound so bad. You can put as many games as you want on an SSD, it'll still last years.
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Any SSD is far better than a hard drive, so if you spend $45 USD you'll get a decent 120GB one. You can't really get many smaller than that, 60GB SSDs are hard to find and 80GB doesn't exist. About the don't-do's; don't get a recording software that will constantly record like shadowplay, and if you do, turn off the shadow part of it. The write cycle isn't actually that threatening, you make it sound so bad. You can put as many games as you want on an SSD, it'll still last years.
 
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Thank you for the recommendation.
I'll consider it.



Then I need some information on which brands are good and bad
I've also heard people saying that Samsung 750 is the best for the price and that OCZ is not a good brand.
Is there any particular reason for that?
 
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Samsung don't make a bad drive , some of the ocz models are poor, some are great.
It just makes Samsung generally a safer option

Personally on budget levels I've always bought the Kingston hyper x models

http://pcpartpicker.com/product/ZvLypg/kingston-internal-hard-drive-shfs37a120g

Bear in mind though that for a paltry $14 more you can get a decent quality adata drive with double the capacity.

http://pcpartpicker.com/product/gf98TW/a-data-internal-hard-drive-asp550ss3240gmc

You may think that 120gb will be plenty but consider that once formatted you only get 110gb, for trim to function properly you need to leave another 10gb free.

Before you start you have 100gb of free space not 120!

 
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Yeah, the 750 is a great performer. I have it as my boot drive. It's performance is almost equal to the 850 evo. If you are willing to spend few more bucks you can get a 120GB 750 evo for $55, if not, the Kingston one would be the best choice.
 
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that's only an issue with older controllers I've found anyways. I hate seeing these things spread everywhere because myresults are completely different. hdd's are a problem when maxing out space but ssd's aren't if they're modern and not rebranded older ones. fill one up and run a 8 gib or so test on it to check for yourself.
 
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