Which SSD is best?

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PS, sorry, I ain't alf spamming the forums lately with dopey questions, but it's upgrade time :D

I'm looking at these 4 atm, purely because they are £15 cheaper than most other brands ? Do any other SSD's stand out under £70 ? So many choices, just want to order one already aha !

http://www.dabs.com/products/crucial-250gb-bx100-sata-6gb-s-2-5--7mm--with-9-5mm-adapter--ssd-B1TY.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc%20product%20search&utm_campaign=Components%20and%20Storage%20-%20Hard%20Drives%20-%20Internal%20Hard%20Drives&gclid=CKXYscj4l8cCFXTMtAod1IoMAg

http://www.storkz.com/crucial-ct250bx100ssd1.html

Cheers all :)

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Avoid Kingston for one, otherwise it's really not going to matter all that much, just get whatever has the better price per gigabyte. so long as the speed isn't incredibly different.

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Out of those listed:

  1. Crucial - pretty reliable drives, has turbo cache software (like that of samsung) that works well. The winner of your list in my eyes.
  2. Sandisk budget drives are better than those they offered in the past. Decent enough drives, write speeds are a bit of a turd though.
  3. Kingston ssdnow drives, avoid em. You may be unlucky and get one of the older batch that if they weren't DOA they were plagued with issues.
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Cheers guys, this echoes what I've heard from other people, thank you :)

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hello guys :D

bumping this thread because I now have my ssd !!!

I'm having a bit of trouble cloning my hdd though, I tried it with clonezilla last night and it went through ok, but it won't boot ! Anyone have any ideas ?

cheers !

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I got that exact Crucial not long ago. I am really happy with it. Computer starts up in under 10 seconds now!

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Is the partition size too big for the destination drive?

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Other thing is the bootloader might be on your original drive. Try unplugging it and repairing your install on the one that won't boot.

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I think it might be this, but I have no idea what to do, can you point me towards a guide or what to google please ?

:D

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Try unplugging the Sata cable from the drive that originally had Windows on it and see what happens. I'm curious if it will decide to boot from SSD. Were you going to the boot menu and selecting boot from SSD before?

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yeah, all the boot setting were correct, but it just wouldn't boot.

I have to re clone it anyways now because I ballsd it last night. Booting up clonezilla again now.

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I just did a clean install. All my important stuff is backed up anyway. It feels so freesh and clean!

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i dont have a drive big enough for the image unfortunatly, the clone is 68% done now, will try it again :)

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What size drives are you working with?

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my hdd is 120gb my ssd is 250, my flash drive is 2gb and the iso is 3. So for now I'm trying to clone the hdd again.

If I can't get it up and running by the weekend I will borrow my friends drive and do a clean install. I'm itching to get it working though aha ! First ssd i've owned :D

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The difference is night and day.

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I've had issues in the past with clonezilla not creating the MBR. I use parted magic now to clone disks, but you can still use parted magic to rebuild the MBR and see if that will get you booting.

Also, depending on your board, make sure you have UEFI as the boot method in your board BIOS.

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All kingstons are bad (This is from my own experience)

Samsung EVO series are also pretty bad (This is from my own experience)

Crucial is good

Adatas are my favorite

Intels are the best but expensive

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If you did buy the crucial drive (which is what I gather from the thread) you should have received a small paper inside the box with a code and a link for their included cloning software. I bought two crucial SSD's recently and they both came with it. If you search on crucial's website there's a section on how to clone the drives with a link to a you tube video. That's what I did and it just took like 20 minutes and I was done.

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my kingston hyper x 240gb has been doing great so far as my applications drive