I'm not really up to date with SSD, but it looks like I am running out of space now. Games take up a lot.

Looking at these two as Samsung still seem to be the best in the market.

850 Pro 512 - about the best older model

860 Pro 512 - Out end of month

The question is - do folks think it is better to go with tried and tested, or go for the new release and hope it lives up to it's predecessor ?

The 860 is only a little faster, but their prices (at the moment pre-order for the 860) are about the same.

A little about the 860s here :

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/1/23/16923532/samsung-860-evo-pro-ssd-850-models-sold-state-drives-3d-nand

Cheers

The last build I did for a customer I put one of these in:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-MX300-525GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B01IAGSD68/

Was seriously impressed with it, was an i3 that booted in under 10 seconds, for storage purposes I don't think you can go far wrong especially for the price. 

Half the price 

Do you think Steam would be okay on it ? I'm not really sure how much games rely on the SSD once they are loaded...

Yeah Steam would love it mate 

You won't notice much in the way of FPS improvement during gameplay, but load times during game startup, as well as between zones, and possibly game saves (roughly anything that reads from/writes to the drive) should see a marked improvement.

BTW, for that kind of price, I wouldn't mind picking up a couple to replace my stable of HDD's. It would take 3 minimum, however, so ~350 or so quid. gonna take me some time to get that kind of dosh together.

Thanks gents - that's what I thought Dave.  

I like this site for comparing things : http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/OCZ-Agility-3-240GB-vs-Crucial-MX300-525GB/369vs3643

I'll keep the old Agility 3 in there but use it more for storage and less used programs.

If you look at that comparison then the Crucial wins hands down.

Quote from: DaveMorton on January 23, 2018, 23:01:11 PM
BTW, for that kind of price, I wouldn't mind picking up a couple to replace my stable of HDD's. It would take 3 minimum, however, so ~350 or so quid. gonna take me some time to get that kind of dosh together.

Yeah, glad I asked and checked with Mr Data

Saved me £100 

It might not be the ripping speed of the Samsungs but it's still quick and would load them games nicely, I doubt you would notice the difference compared to the Samsungs in game load time.

Well the Agility has been doing fine for me - that's where Steam lives atm. It's only because I am running out of space. I can't think when I bought the Agility, must be quite a few years ago now - it's done well.

And further to that, the Corsair will be faster, so that's nice.

I've got a 60GB SSD in there which is the one the Corsair will replace. I'm going to do a thorough spring clean I think and get rid of things I don't use or need that has collected on my drives.

It's not Corsair it's Crucial 

I recently gave mine a good clean out, got back loads of SSD space, always good to do 

My old Agility is still going strong too

Doh !

This thread has caused me to want to (rather fearfully) check and see how well (read: poorly) my system is doing, now it's gotten a bit long in the tooth, and is relying on ancient video tech. I didn't want to go off topic here, however, than simply announcing it, but I needed someone to share the pain with. I've posted my benchmark results here.

There is a new ultra fast M.2 SSD on the market, almost identical to the Samsung 960 Pro in performance, but a good bit cheaper. It seriously does look like a good option if or when a new M.2 is required for your rig.

Available in 3 flavours.

240GB / 480GB / 960GB

ADATA XPG SX8200

https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/adata-xpg-sx8200-ssd-review,review-34354.html



Today the 240GB version is £82 on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ADATA-ASX8200NP-240GT-C-GEN3X4-Solid-State/dp/B07BLNFSQN/

  Nice find, a hair more at Newegg. Great the way prices come down for electronics.
Carl2