SSD help

[SeriesA]

Im looking into buying an SSD for my gaming build but im not really sure where to go on this.

the ones i have picked out are;

Samsung 840 Evo - 120gb (£68.99)
Samsung 840 Evo - 250gb (£130) - But ill have to only get 8gb ram with this one
Crucial M500 - 240gb (£98.99!)

Any other people can suggest ill be happy to take a look, thanks for any help

 

[Wraith]

Im looking into buying an SSD for my gaming build but im not really sure where to go on this.

the ones i have picked out are;

Samsung 840 Evo - 120gb (£68.99)
Samsung 840 Evo - 250gb (£130) - But ill have to only get 8gb ram with this one
Crucial M500 - 240gb (£98.99!)

Any other people can suggest ill be happy to take a look, thanks for any help

Why do you need to only get 8gb ram with the 250Evo?

 

[CrazyTeeka]

Im looking into buying an SSD for my gaming build but im not really sure where to go on this.

the ones i have picked out are;

Samsung 840 Evo - 120gb (£68.99)
Samsung 840 Evo - 250gb (£130) - But ill have to only get 8gb ram with this one
Crucial M500 - 240gb (£98.99!)

Any other people can suggest ill be happy to take a look, thanks for any help

From that list, I'd pick the Samsung 840 Evo - 250gb

 

[Jordan]

+1 on the Samsung 840 Evo 250gb, I've heard a lot of good things about those drives.

 

[Dragolu]

I own a 840 EVO 250 and it is a great little drive. Preformance is excellent, especially with Turbowrite and RAPID activated. Just be aware of the limitations odf this drive. It uses TLC which is slower and has theoretically less of a lifespan than MLC or SLC (still about 11 years of average use). Using Turbowrite gives you a SLC cache so it will be very fast until that fills. It also reduces the total capacity (TLC can hold more data than SLC. RAPID uses ram as a temporary storage so it is even faster but you need a lot of ram.
I change SSD's evere 2-3 years pretty much so endurance was not a big concern for me.
I would think long and hard before buying a 120 mb SSD. It is duable as a system drive but you will run out of space if you try to install programs in it. 250 gives you more room to play with although 8 gb may be tight for RAPID.
Hope this helps.

 

[SeriesA]

well my budget is £1300 for the whole build, and i could get 16gb and 250gb, but i wanted to get a 1tb hdd also, and with all of it it will go over my budget, but i could just re use my old one, but its loud, hot and is just old..

 

[Snortan]

Since you mentioned this is for a gaming build you don't need 16gb, 8gb is perfectly fine. You go for 16gb when you know you're gonna use it, things like video editing, virtual machines, etc.

 

[SeriesA]

well i do plan to also use it for CAD work also 3D modeling things like that, will more RAM benefit this?

 

[NeverBackDown]

More ram the better for any type of rendering. Light rendering rigs using cad should have no less than 16Gb tbh.

 

[Wraith]

well i do plan to also use it for CAD work also 3D modeling things like that, will more RAM benefit this?

16GB should be more than adequate for your needs, when gaming I rarely exceed 6GB but when using 3DSMAX, Photoshop or Power Director really high res editing or rendering sees me hitting 12GB-ish I at least know I have 4 extra Giggys in reserve.