Reddit mentions of ADATA Premier SP550 240GB 2.5 Inch SATA III Solid State Drive (ASP550SS3-240GM-C)

Both the mx200 and 850 evo are great drives and you won't reach the end life of a newer SSD until around 2000TB of writes. So drive failure isn't really an issue with a modern SSD. Personally I have a 500gb mx200 dedicated for steam games and a 128gb mx100 as my boot drive.

If you want something cheaper than either of these that still has good read and write speeds, the ADATA SP550 is a usually recommended drive.

What reason are you wanting to set up RAID? If it's for protecting against potential data loss fine, but even then I'd still highly recommend an SSD for your OS/programs. You can get a pretty decent one for cheap and it'll be the single biggest upgrade you could do.

Also for a virtual machine and programming IDEs I disagree that you need an i7.

Lastly I believe a western digital blue 1tb has a better track record than the Seagate, for only a few dollars more.

I would recommend the Adata SP550, I have one, and it ranks extremely high to me for a budget SSD.. It's surprisingly competitive in performance against the popular Samsung 850 Evo/Pro.

The SSD is actually a good addition as it does increase boot time and increase overall speed of laptop... But if you should get the cheaper rig and get a low budget yet great SSD like this and add your self, you still save a decent $.

Pick one

PNY CS1311 for $60 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B019H3B3OW/

Corsair Force LE for $59 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017UDPWRA

ADATA SP550 for $58 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013J7Q338

Silicon Power S55 for $55 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D4AVS6I

Recommending swapping that Hitachi drive for this one.

Double the cache and double the disk space for $7 more.

Edit: Also, This is a fair priced quality SSD if you wanna drop another $61 for speed in exchange for storage space. 240gb is also a decent amount if you will only play a couple games and do work. Much more than that though and you pretty much will kick yourself if you don't get a storage drive in conjunction with the SSD.

I would get something like this and add a 120 or 240 gb SSD I would also recommend buying a sata 3 cable, you never know if they include an extra one inside the PC. And use a program to transfer windows from the hard drive to the ssd.

Just an FYI to everyone planning on purchasing this,

it's a good deal but it's not actually that good a deal. SSD prices have been getting lower in the last few months.

$67 isn't that great a deal for a 250GB SSD, at this point. While this time last year, SSD's of that size ran about $80-$100, I think the average price is ~$70 now.

I build systems constantly, and I personally recommend the ADATA Premier SP550 SSDs.

Crucial BX100 250GB read/write: 535/370 MB/s advertised. Price: $66.99 at the moment. Same link as the post.

ADATA Premier SP550 240GB read/write: 560/510 MB/s advertised. Price: $63.99 right now. Amazon link here.

It's 10GB's less, but makes up for it in write speed, and (in my opinion) looks as well.

No, I'm not some ADATA rep. Just throwing the info out there 'cause I've been building my systems with ADATA recently and they're just cheap but great quality drives.

Thanks. And whoops, noticed the price of the ROG went up. Here you go!

Mmkay, let's talk specs... 4th Gen vs 6th Gen, no difference in gaming performance. According to the description, Asus also has a G-Sync display. SSD... can be bought for pretty cheap and put in the Asus if you desire. One main issue however you mentioned b4... the Asus is also a bit heavier and lacks a USB C.

I'd recommend this, it's much less but almost just as good. If you have window, the design looks good too imo

I have two storage boxes, this particular one holds the OS partitions of my VMs. I have dedup enabled since they contain a lot of the same information. I have a separate box for bulk storage.
Config of this box:
CentOS 7
SuperMicro MBD-X9SCL-F-B with 32GB ECC RAM and i3 CPU
2x SuperMicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 HBA
16x WD RED 1TB Model WD10JFCX in 8 Mirrored VDEVs in a single Zpool (~7TB)
2x ADATA Premier SP550 120GB Mirrored ZIL cache
1x ADATA Premier SP550 240GB Cache
1x MNPA19-XTR 10Gb NIC
Corsair RM750 PSU

I think amazon has a better deal. https://www.amazon.ca/ADATA-SP550-240GB-SATA3-SM2256/dp/B013J7Q338

Eh you're right, I meant every 240-256gb SSD that goes on sale, which is quite frequently, I see them maybe 2-3 times a week on SlickDeals for $50-$60.

This is the cheapest on Amazon right now, and it was $53 a week ago.

Correct! A great choice on a budget is this one for 240GB, and this one or this one for 480GB.

this: https://www.amazon.com/ADATA-Premier-SP550-240GB-ASP550SS3-240GM-C/dp/B013J7Q338/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1483721941&sr=1-3&keywords=240gb+ssd

inside of this:

https://www.amazon.com/Tool-free-Inateck-External-Enclosure-FE2004/dp/B00JQTO8TU/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1483722004&sr=1-2&keywords=portable+hard+drive+enclosure

basically that setup. works great.

The weird stutters are, as I said, caused when VMWare Player seems to propigate from one of it's disk files to another. It has nothing to do with 'load more of the program into RAM'.

I've had some success with creating a pre-allocated disk, rather than letting it create it on the fly. The other option is to throw an SSD at it. Given that you can now get a 60GB SSD for all of $35, I find that option the easiest.

Quick Edit: Since this is a drive just for a VM to reside on, why not go with something a wee bit larger? Found a simple ADATA 240GB drive for $60, way better deal :)

Can someone recommend me a cheap 250GB SSD?

My MOBO only supports SATA2, so 6GB/s isn't really a requirement.

Something around €70 would be ideal.

A work colleague told me the Samsung EVO 850 or a SanDISK.

I bought this and it's trash giving me freezes or BSOD in W7: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B013J7Q338/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Ps the SSD I used does not seem to have good reviews, use this one instead:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B013J7Q338/ref=pd_sim_sbs_147_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=BZQP9SH7851Y245KJZBK

It is slightly more expensive but it should be fine. OR since you will be downloading GTA 5 and Dark Soul 3 they are 50GB each or something. So a 240 GB SSD might not be big enough.

I suggest you take the hard drive out of your laptop and put it in this computer or get yourself a 1TB hard drive.

https://www.amazon.com/ADATA-Premier-SP550-240GB-ASP550SS3-240GM-C/dp/B013J7Q338/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479309928&sr=8-1&keywords=Sp550+240+gb

If you're getting another platter drive, just about any 7200rpm drive will do. The Western Digital WD10EZEX is cheap, reliable, and benchmarks at around 160MB/s. That would be fine for recording 1080p 60fps.

If you're getting SSDs for your OS/games disk, I've used both the Samsung 850 EVO and the ADATA Premier with great results. Both of those systems have 2 SSDs in RAID 0, for double the read/write speeds. That's not necessary, but it is cool to have over 1GB/s in read/write.

Either option should help with the hard drive bottleneck. I haven't checked benchmarks for your 4590, but that's a relatively new chip. You could always add more RAM, but only if you deem that you need it. H264 likes to eat memory. That will improve your encoding times if you're editing your footage in Adobe Premiere or Sony Vegas. I think you should be fine after recording to a separate drive though. If you're still having issues, it may be aggressive/overly demanding settings in OBS.

Looking at cheap SSD's for a friend. I have came across the ADATA SP550 (240GB) a few times and it seems the cheapest around. Most reviews seem to agree that it has its failings but none that would impact greatly on an everyday/gaming PC. Just wondering if anyone has used them before and how they found them.

Most places also recommend the Samsung 850 for the budget SSD but the ADATA id £60 vs £87 for the 850.

EDIT: Also noticed the WD Green SSDs any good or aimed more at office use?

Do you absolutely need a Samsung 850 EVO?
I understand it's at a pretty good price and they're some of the best but you could always cut down on the SSD. Adata's Premier SP550 SSD is a pretty good choice for the money.
Also, you could cut down to a B85 or even an H81 motherboard if you don't need some features.

How does this compare to something like this?

Alright I understand, but I do hope it's okay if I shift my request for an SSD. I need it for my apps in school work. It's a little more than Overwatch though.

Here's the LINK.

The 850 is one of the top drives for TLC-memory SSDs. Usually, the read/write speeds tend to decrease as price lowers. To get better performance, most TLC SSDs have a buffer cache to get better read/write speeds. The difference is between SSDs, in my opinion, is pretty much unnoticeable is normal use. The jump from mechanical HDD is what matters.

Some good entry-level SSDs are the ADATA SP550, Transcend 370 or Sandisk Ultra II and a direct competitor to the 850 EVO, the Crucial MX200

If you want good value for space and performance, the MyDigitalSSD BP5e offers that.

I just replaced my ssd. With a new one not more than 1 month ago. So I have another question. Could it be my motherboard or psu? Back when I had this same problem again 1 month ago. I reset each component. It seemed that the ssd died in the end. Similarly here I think the ssd died. Though it might be my fault the ssd I got this time had bad reviews. ( ADATA Premier SP550 240GB 2.5 Inch SATA III Superior Read & Write up to560MB/s & 510MB/s Solid State Drive (ASP550SS3-240GM-C) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013J7Q338/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_jGe1xbZCBFKTP )

This one has a better writing speed, for 3$ more, but 16GB less.
Not sure what would be the best deal, please help me compare both drives.

ADATA Premier SP550 240GB 2.5 Inch

Looks a good deal. I literally just bought an Adata SSD (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B013J7Q338/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_6N9yxbZTJBTYF) :(

Swap the samsung evo out for one of these: https://www.amazon.com/ADATA-Premier-SP550-240GB-ASP550SS3-240GM-C/dp/B013J7Q338/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1466011773&sr=1-1&keywords=adata+ssd

Going with this ssd will save you $7. Kingston did a bait and swtch with the V300

SSD is overkill, you can get them a cheaper ssd https://www.amazon.ca/ADATA-Premier-Superior-to560MB-ASP550SS3-240GM-C/dp/B013J7Q338/

It would certainly work though it is a higher end drive so unless you need that level of security for some reason there are much lower priced drives available such as http://www.amazon.com/ADATA-Premier-SP550-240GB-ASP550SS3-240GM-C/dp/B013J7Q338/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1464479744&sr=8-1&keywords=ssd+adata

or even:

http://www.amazon.com/ADATA-Premier-Pro2-5-Inch-Synchronous-ASP900S3-256GM-C/dp/B007RHT4K6/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1464479744&sr=8-6&keywords=ssd+adata

Samsung does make a good high end product but for basic everyday usage it can be overkill, especially since either way you should be backing up important data on a regular basis.

http://www.amazon.com/ADATA-Premier-SP550-240GB-ASP550SS3-240GM-C/dp/B013J7Q338/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1463267597&sr=1-1&keywords=adata+240+gb

did I say 10? I meant 15, ops

What am I looking at when comparing SSDs? I'm looking for advice when comparing:

1. Samsung 850 EVO 250GB. Price: ~$170
   
2. ADATA Premier SP550 240GB. Price $154 after taxes.
   
   I'm Ecuadorian.
   
   #1's price is how much it would cost to ship it here.
   
   #2's price is it's retail price here.
   
   Is #1 worth it the hassle of importing on top of the added money?

If you want to fit in an SSD, you could squeeze a bit more out of the budget. For example, you have a $330 1060 in your proposed build, but if you're willing to do a bit of waiting, there's usually a 1060 on Amazon for $280 (such as this Asus model right now.) If you're going for mini (maybe that case is small?), there's actually a Zotac mini 1060 for $250 right now. That would leave enough room for a 240 GB A-data SP550 SSD.

It would irritate me to not be using the dual channels for memory, and I'd probably go with 2x4GB to maximize memory bandwidth.

Also, there is no way I'd get a spinning drive. Get a cheap SSD instead.

I'm referring to the 240 GB. Newegg Amazon


Both are listed at ~$2 more than your deal before the site-wide promotions.