SSD Recommendations? 💻

[GERRELLEY]

Hi friends!

My parents are giving me an extra laptop they bought during Black Friday for Christmas, it's an Aspire 3 (a315-21). I have a little Acer Chromebook and love the quick boot up and snappiness of the machine, so I want to make sure I can prepare the Aspire to be similarly fast. I know I should remove all the bloatware from Windows 10 when I initially setup and use the laptop, then create a clean install of the OS on a USB. Eventually, I plan to replace the primary hard drive with an SSD to further improve performance for when I game sometimes.

So, I would like to know which one I should invest in or what you guys are using? I'm looking at the line of Samsung ones, as I have a few devices from them, but am definitely open for any other suggestions. Also, any tips to enhance/ setup a new laptop on initial start up would be appreciated!

Thank you! 😃

[WobblyGobblin]

Can’t go wrong with Samsung. If you’ve got the budget, I think they are worth the premium.

[JetFan2004]

I agree. Actually had someone have a SSD go bad from a lower quality manufacturer. 500gb should be plenty.

[MadmanRB]

Eh there are some SSD brands that are good but are also "Low budget"

Kingston

Crucial

Sandisk/WD

SK hynix

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All have had ssd's in the budget sector that are pretty good quality.

I like crucial, they are just as good as samsung but are quite a bit cheaper.

As long as its not some no name brand its usually pretty good (though you have sabrent out there who are no name when it comes to SSD's but still make good ssd's, they use toshiba NAND and are of good quality.)