Looking for a SSD

I am realising that I will need to upgrade to Windows 10 sooner rather than later and my intention is to upgrade my 2013 pc's SSD, currently a 240 GB Kingston Hyper X SSD.

Any suggestions for a comparable SSD? I would have gone for the 480 GB version of the existing, but that is showing by Kingston as being discontinued.

I am thinking of a 480 GB SSD since the current 240 GB one is 75% full and I am assuming that Win 10 64-bit Pro will need more. I can retain Win7 on the existing SSD.

My pc is based on a Novatech 'bare bones' Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 Motherboard (AMD 790 Chipset), an AMD FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Processor, together with an 8GB of DDR3 1600MHz Memory. A XFX AMD Radeon HD 6670 2GB DDR3 Graphics Card and initially a 64 GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive for the C: drive (for the OS and programs) and two 1TB HDDs for D: & E: (D: for Data and E: for Backup.)

I upgraded the 64 GB SSD to a 240 GB Kingston Hyper X SSD a few years back and November 2022 changed the two 1TB drives for two WD drives. (a Black for Data and a Blue for Backup).

Many thanks for reading.

Cheers!

Samsung EVOs are generally well regarded. In your case I would probably go for the 1 TB QVO EVO 870 https://www.novatech.co.uk/products/samsung-870-qvo-... . Not the absolute fastest you can buy, but faster than your current SSD. At £60 it's only £8 more than the 500 GB version, and you can never have too much storage.

Crucial MX500 at 1TB and 2TB are decently priced against the others:

1TB List

2TB List

The 4TB is also competitive vs the others, but thecost is getting a bit steep, unless you need 4TB.

4TB List

That price for the QVO EVO is ridiculous! It’s £60 at Novatech, and they aren’t always the cheapest supplier.

If you Google SSD reviews you will find every review recommends the Samsung 870 EVO as the best consumer SATA SSD.

With that age of computer I’d argue that the QVO is just as good, but they’re both fine drives. The QVO is considerably cheaper.

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

With that age of computer I’d argue that the QVO is just as good, but they’re both fine drives. The QVO is considerably cheaper.

One benefit on older machines is the Samsung Magician software their drives come with. If you have sufficient RAM (8GB min, 16GB or more recommended) this can improve performance dramatically even with an old 2013 PC... it is intelligent caching.

Cool. Never shop at Novatech, so it's academic. Was providing a comparison of listed SSDs. Prefer Evo if going Samsung, but £/GB is what some people prefer.

I've had good experiences with Samsung EVO's in PCs as other folks have noted.

The only let down was a pair of EVO 850 M.2 1TB sticks around 2018 used as cache in 8-drive Synology NAS. I burnt through them in around 2 years. I never bothered replacing the cache to be fair and stuck in a 10GbE network card in lieu in the expansion slot. Runs faster than ever.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions on which SSD.

I will be going for Samsung. Decision now is on size and QVO or EVO.

Now to sort out my OKI printer (see separate post!)

Thanks again!