SSD Purchase Recomendation

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Jefforino

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Hello,
I`d like some advice on a ssd i plan to buy for a fresh install of win 10.
I will run mainly games on it and i need only 500gb, but the capacity doesnt affect the effectiveness, right?

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Processor 3.2GHz
16 GB RAM
AMD Radeon HD Series 6900

Thanks in advance!
 
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What kind of budget?

There are some deals on the ocz/Toshiba 960gb drive for $280 if you just need a lot of capacity. The 850 evo is like $60 more if you could swing that for 1 tb.
 
agreed, with above 850. Capacity does affect speed sometimes, as the memory chips have additional lanes. The only issue I could see is that your older system may only have a SATA II which would bottle the SSD's speed. Still much faster than any normal HDD, but may be worth if you have a hard drive already is to use that for storage and get a 250GB SSD and spend the extra coin on a PCIe SATA III interface to use the full 6GB/sec. That's what I would do, also, you can always get another 250GB SSD later and RAID it to increase capacity, or redundancy.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...38&cm_re=250gb_850_ssd-_-20-147-372-_-Product



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...10&cm_re=pcie_sata_iii-_-16-322-010-_-Product



It would just require re-routing the sata cable back into the pc. $112 and if you have an extra HDD you're set. Or you could get the 500GB and do the same.

What motherboard do you have?
 
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Thanks for the helpful information!
I totally forgot about sata II and III , my motherboard: http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/870 Extreme3 R2.0/ if i`ve read correctly it has only sata III right?
And 1 question aside: does it matter which SATA3_X i connect the harddrive with?

@Okedokey My situation is following:
I have a 1T HDD with barely over 300gb with win 7.
150+gb are games only!

I guess i could get a 250 gb SSD and put the games there and keep my old HDD in my pc as a "USB-Stick" inside ( i think with power of google i can make the ssd the main harddrive )
Does that sound doable?

Ofc i install win 10 1st on the SSD without my old HDD being connected to my PC, correct?
 
Your motherboard has SATA III (5 slots) so you're good to go without anything else. Get the 500GB drive and use the Samsung Migration software that comes with the SSD to transfer across then once you set the boot priority to the SSD and it is all working you can format the old drive and transfer all 'files' that are rarely used over.
 
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