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Samsung Evo 850

2017


Upgrading my Gaming PC with a Solid State Drive (SSD)

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It took me years to catch up to the PC Master race when I first started upgrading my PC around 4 years ago. With the recent upgrade to RX 480 GPU my PC stepped into an uncharted territory. But there was still a final piece of puzzle that wasn’t in it’s place but which had the potential to make my PCMR journey to it’s final conclusion. Combine this with the fact that India was about to see a revolution in terms of economy with the new implementation of taxation, that is GST (Goods and Services Tax), I had to act fast. So I finally decided to bite the bullet and finally buy the last piece of the puzzle, an SSD!
I did my research on the forums. I studied the technologies provided by different companies, benchmarks and various kinds of SSD that was available. I studied the price to performance metrics, and price per GB of disk. I watched various youtube videos on YT, including the all too popular channel Linus Tech Tips. All that R&D pointed to me a very clear choice: Samsung Evo 850 250 GB.

BrandModelCapacity (GB)PricePrice per GBLink
Samsung750 EVO120449937Link
Samsung750 EVO250749930Link
Samsung850 EVO250760030Link
WDGreen120399933Link
WDGreen240615126Link
WDBlue250670027Link
KingstonSSDNow UV400120394933Link
KingstonSSDNow UV400240649927Link
KingstonSSDNow V300120414935Link
KingstonSSDNow V300240917938Link
KingstonSSDNow A400120420035Link
KingstonSSDNow A400240649927Link
CrucialMX300275715026Link
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Damn, it’s deceiving simplicity!
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