Best Value SSD Under €200

Peadarmac1

I recently had a hard drive failure and plan to use a SSD on the rebuild, What would you recommend as i mostly will use it for photoshop and watching bluray movies. I was looking at 120ggb corsair force 3 €147 or GT €159 or the OCZ agility 3 180ggb €199. The board is SATA 2 compatible i7 processor 6 gb ram, open to all suggestions, Thanks

M00lers

The 128GB Crucial M4 is going for a song on amazon.co.uk at the moment.

Peadarmac1

Thanks moolers2000 , will check that out. anybody else got their tuppenceworth to add

Monotype

M4 is the one to go for unless you find the Samsung 830 or Intel drive for cheap (which you probably won't).

Peadarmac1

Hi Monotype, What about this Samsung 830 http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ssd/20099618/samsung_830_series_128gb_2_5_sata600/details.aspx costing €179
and this one http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ssd/20130964/samsung_830_series_128gb_2_5_sata600/details.aspx costing €159. what is the difference other than €20. or am I missing something?

NTMK

Peadarmac1 wrote: »

Hi Monotype, What about this Samsung 830 http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ssd/20099618/samsung_830_series_128gb_2_5_sata600/details.aspx costing €179
and this one http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ssd/20130964/samsung_830_series_128gb_2_5_sata600/details.aspx costing €159. what is the difference other than €20. or am I missing something?

The 189 one comes with a mounting kit while the cheaper one doesn't samsung released a couple of versions of the 830 with different mounting and transfer kits.

they're the same drive AFAIK

Monotype

There's also cables with the dearer one and not with the cheaper one, according to the pictures on newegg.

Not a bad price for the samsung. It's not amazingly better than the M4 or anything and you'd be unlikely to even notice the difference so I wouldn't pay much extra for it.

Peadarmac1

Thanks everyone for your input, I am leaning towards the samsung for €159, will post back, when I finally decide

daz801

the kingston hyper-x drives a very good for that price range

LPHeadstrong

This is what I'm leaning towards!

http://www.dabs.ie/products/ocz-technology-128gb-petrol-series-sata-6gb-s-2-5--solid-state-drive-7X6C.html?src=7

It's so-so but with a quick firmware upgrade it's pretty good! SATA III and so far the cheapest I've seen! That being said I'm looking for the cheapest that isn't ridiculously bad! This isn't the best by any means but for the price/GB it's fairly tempting!

OmegaRed

I am considering buying the M4 in a couple of weeks from hardwareversand (I am getting a few other things also). Will I need a separate drive/mount bay for it? so it will slot in like a regular 3.5" drive?

Tea_Bag

depends on your case really. most newer cases have 2.5" mounting holes in the 3.5" bays.

it doesnt really need to be mounted anyway tbh. you could velcro strip it to anywhere you want. some people literally leave it hanging off the power cable. thats the beauty of SSD's, they weigh nothing, and dont have moving parts so you could take it on a trampoline and it'll still work fine.

OmegaRed

Cool, thanks for the info mate.

My case is http://store.antec.com/Product/enclosure-gear_for_gamers/nine-hundred/0-761345-15900-5.aspx and only has 3.5" HDD bays. But i should have lots of space to just rest it somewhere!