Any Good budget SSD 120gb for booting and a few games? around $50

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Hi, im in the process of getting an SSD, that will most likely only be used for booting the OS a few programs (Maya, Modo, other 3D stuff) and a few games; I dont think i will need more than 120 gb for that, maybe even a 60gb one would be enough for that.
I have been researching and found out that for my needs a nand ssd is better (DRAM ones i think are obsolete now, Maybe?). Any thoughts on that? lol

Right now im deciding between these,
can you recommend me one of those or another if you think its better in terms of performance and price?

-HyperX FURY 120 GB - Its a bit old but i hear its still good
-Corsair Force Series LE200 SSD 120GB
-Corsair LS Series SSD 60GB

They all cost about the same.
Any thoughts? Suggestions?
 
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20GB free space, just for the initial bare install.
After that...apply all the updates, etc.

And then a few GB for the page file.
And then some for free space on the drive for TRIM to do its thing. A 120GB drive has only about 85GB effective space that YOU can use.

My current C drive (500GB SSD), not counting the Users folders with Docs, etc....takes up about 145GB.
Just the "Windows" folder is ~42GB. Program Files + Program Files (x86) + Program Data is another 75GB.

It adds up faster than you think.
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Really? I did some research and found out that windows 10 takes about 20GB on the disc and the formatted disc reduces other 20GB or so off the storage capacity; 3D software doesn't consumes that much space, but i dont mind sending that to the HDD.
Apart from that... Or is there something that im missing? (I just started researching SDDs a few days ago, and there too many variables that i don't understand yet).
The SanDisk SSD Ultra II 240 GB look great and is not that much expensive; i think i will also consider that one
 
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20GB free space, just for the initial bare install.
After that...apply all the updates, etc.

And then a few GB for the page file.
And then some for free space on the drive for TRIM to do its thing. A 120GB drive has only about 85GB effective space that YOU can use.

My current C drive (500GB SSD), not counting the Users folders with Docs, etc....takes up about 145GB.
Just the "Windows" folder is ~42GB. Program Files + Program Files (x86) + Program Data is another 75GB.

It adds up faster than you think.
 
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Ohhhh ok, thanks for the explanation... i will go for a 240gb SSD then. thanks,
im guessing other specifications apart from the write/read speed, doesn't really matter all that much on such level entry SSD.
 
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I have that Ultra II in the 960GB size. Works just fine, and there is no real 'speed difference' between that and my 500GB Samsung 850 EVO.
 
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