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SSD upgrade advice

  • 13-01-2014 10:45am
    #1
    Dunnie1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭


    My Toshiba laptop is 2 years old (i7, 6GB ram) and is running pretty well, but I want to install a SSD instead of my current harddrive. I was wondering whats a good SSD and where would be the cheapest place to get it, 250GB or thereabouts would be plenty of space as I mostly use it for college, Office, Photoshop, Eclipse etc.

    This was the one I was thinking of getting.
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00E391OX6/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&psc=1&s=computers


Comments

  • #2
    Ri_Nollaig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭Ri_Nollaig


    I can't speak for the EVO but I have the Pro version of that Samsung SSD and I can't praise it enough!
    It really is night and day when you move from a HDD to a SDD.

    I would definitely stay with either Samsung or Intel.


  • #3
    Serephucus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,181 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    Evo is what you should be getting. Best price to performance/capacity ratio there is at the moment.


  • #4
    Dunnie1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭Dunnie1982


    Ri_Nollaig wrote: »
    I can't speak for the EVO but I have the Pro version of that Samsung SSD and I can't praise it enough!
    It really is night and day when you move from a HDD to a SDD.

    I would definitely stay with either Samsung or Intel.
    Serephucus wrote: »
    Evo is what you should be getting. Best price to performance/capacity ratio there is at the moment.

    I'll go with the Evo so. Thanks for the advise.


  • #5
    BigEejit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭BigEejit


    Either will make a huge difference. I got a 120GB EVO in the november sales for under 68quid and I did not notice any speed difference between it and the 840 series that it replaced (moved the 250GB 840 to another computer than needed more space)


  • #6
    LithiumKid1976
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭LithiumKid1976


    i've had good experience with the Kingston brand ssd

    but id stay away from adata , a friends laptop is on its 3rd one. (not sure why it keeps failing, but at least its under warranty - seems to fail just short of a year each time.. )


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