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Buck Fankers
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120GB SSD for 18$ or 240GB for 30$ - Kingston

#1 Post by Buck Fankers »

Seems like a good deal to me if you need to upgrade from spinning HDD:

https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-120GB-S ... 0S37-120G/

There are cheaper such as adata, but, since I don't know anything about that company I would stay away.

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Re: 120GB SSD for 18$ or 240GB for 30$ - Kingston

#2 Post by chrispop99 »

Adata are good budget drives, with decent reviews, so if you found one at a bargain price you shouldn't be put off.

The link you posted 404's for me.

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Re: 120GB SSD for 18$ or 240GB for 30$ - Kingston

#3 Post by srq2625 »

A quick search of Amazon produced this which shows the 120GB for $17.99USD, the 240GB for $29.99USD, and the 480GB for $59USD.
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Re: 120GB SSD for 18$ or 240GB for 30$ - Kingston

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Yes, yes, yes. There's no reason to run rotational HDDs for your system if you have $17. It's a great improvement. You can keep HDDs as a secondary drives for data if needed (or backups), but 120GB should be plenty for a root Linux partition. I used Kingston and Adata interchangeably, didn't see a difference in speed or reliability. The difference that you'll see will be between HDD and SSD.

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Re: 120GB SSD for 18$ or 240GB for 30$ - Kingston

#5 Post by manyroads »

If people are unfamiliar with failure predictions for various storage devices, here's a nicely organized article on the topic of reliability.

https://www.wepc.com/tips/ssd-reliability/
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Re: 120GB SSD for 18$ or 240GB for 30$ - Kingston

#6 Post by cyrilus31 »

Adrian wrote: Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:25 am Yes, yes, yes. There's no reason to run rotational HDDs for your system if you have $17. It's a great improvement. You can keep HDDs as a secondary drives for data if needed (or backups), but 120GB should be plenty for a root Linux partition. I used Kingston and Adata interchangeably, didn't see a difference in speed or reliability. The difference that you'll see will be between HDD and SSD.
No problem when moving large files? From what I understand, cheaper ssd are often if not always without Dram. Which mean they may be slower in some cases and last shorter (generally shorter warranty period).
Very convenient in most situations but it seems samsung evo 860 and crucial MX500 are a better bet with a slightely higher price.
Your opinion?

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Re: 120GB SSD for 18$ or 240GB for 30$ - Kingston

#7 Post by Adrian »

My opinion is that you get what you pay for, but the larger difference is between HDD and SSD, not between SSD and SSD (generally speaking, it might not be true in some particular cases) so if you can afford a better SSD, yeah sure, but if you want to spend only $17 to improve the performance of your computer significantly, you can do it.

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Re: 120GB SSD for 18$ or 240GB for 30$ - Kingston

#8 Post by Sparky »

cyrilus31 wrote: Tue Feb 05, 2019 12:08 pm
Adrian wrote: Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:25 am Yes, yes, yes. There's no reason to run rotational HDDs for your system if you have $17. It's a great improvement. You can keep HDDs as a secondary drives for data if needed (or backups), but 120GB should be plenty for a root Linux partition. I used Kingston and Adata interchangeably, didn't see a difference in speed or reliability. The difference that you'll see will be between HDD and SSD.
No problem when moving large files? From what I understand, cheaper ssd are often if not always without Dram. Which mean they may be slower in some cases and last shorter (generally shorter warranty period).
Very convenient in most situations but it seems samsung evo 860 and crucial MX500 are a better bet with a slightely higher price.
Your opinion?
Yes, not all SSD's are equal. I have had great results with both Kingston and Adata, but I do prefer Samsung Evo's.
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Re: 120GB SSD for 18$ or 240GB for 30$ - Kingston

#9 Post by cyrilus31 »

In any case there are no Evo nor MX500 with less than 250Go of memory. You have the cheaper BX family with 120Go. From what I see, If you want 120Go there are only dramless ssd (A400 or Adata SSD). From 500Go on, the price difference is about 10€ max between DRAm ssd and dramless ones (there are often discounts).
For 120Go Kingston A400 is a good choice.

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Re: 120GB SSD for 18$ or 240GB for 30$ - Kingston

#10 Post by azrielle »

I have had good luck with the Dogfish brand out of Hong Kong (where they are fabricated,apparently). Marketed by Newegg, among others. At least with a 32GB SSD that I slapped into an Acer Atom n270 based netbook, and a 128GB mSATA that I put into an Intel 180GB SSD equipped Lenovo T430, as an extra SSD.
Lenovo T430 i5/3320m 8GB MX17.1/Win7SP1 180GB SSD/128GB mSATA
Lenovo X230 i7/3520m 12GB MX17.1/Win7SP1 500GB SSD 480GB mSATA
Lenovo X131e i3/3227u 8GB MX21Xfce/Win7SP1 500GB SSD
Lenovo 11e Celeron n3150 4GB MX19/Fedora30Games 128GB SSD

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