What is the opinion of Reddit about the
Samsung 250GB 860 EVO 2.5-inch Solid State Drive?

The Samsung 860 Evo is probably the best on the market in its price range:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078WQJXNF/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_XmT-Ab9B5MN9F

For around £10-15 more than the cheapest, I feel it’s worth the extra for it’s almost guaranteed reliability. But it’s hardly faster (if at all) than the cheaper £55-60 ones. Any SSD is better than no SSD.

250GB gets you at least 4 of your favourite games installed on it. No need for larger in my opinion, prices are constantly reducing anyway.

You just need a USB 3.0 2.5” SATA enclosure. Many other people have been linking them here. Should cost no more than £5-10.

Does it work? Yes. So much evidence on this sub alone. Most retailers such as Amazon will refund it no problem if you’re not happy anyway.

> 250GB solid state drives here in the UK average the £100-250 mark.

Can’t help with a 2TB for $60 (because it doesn’t exist), but you can get a 250GB Samsung 860 Evo for under £60 on Amazon right now.

Pretty sure that’s a DRAM-Less SSD. I’d go with an 860 Evo.

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https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-250GB-2-5-inch-Solid-State/dp/B078WQJXNF/ref=sr_1_15?dchild=1&keywords=samsung+external+ssd&qid=1613942211&refinements=p_36%3A1253505011&rnid=386442011&s=electronics&sr=1-15

this should work fine. or spend more and get a 500 or 1Tb. or you can upgrade your box – at this point it’s almost worth it tbh if you’re going to play a lot of console.

you can use it for your music and whatever for your laptop/pc if you ever upgrade your xbox.

CPU: Los i5-8600K e i7-8700K son buenos para jugar pero si haces streaming de tus jugadas al mismo tiempo se van a quedar cortos, te recommiendo un AMD Ryzen 7 con 8 cores.

SSD: las mejores relaciones capacidad/precio son 250GB y 500GB. Además hay una oferta en Amazon.es : el Samsung 860 Evo por 65€. Si te interesa compralo ya porque no sé cuánto tiempo va a durar la oferta.

Placa base: según ésta lista, la MSI Z370-A PRO es la peor placa… Por cierto, si decides comprar un Ryzen 7 no olvides cambiarla por otra compatible.

RAM: con una GTX 1080 algunos juegos podrían verse limitados por la velocidad de la memori RAM. Intenta comprar un kit de 3000MHz-3200MHz si puedes.

Fuente: 550W-650W normalmente bastan. No compres las baratas, a veces se suicidan y se llevan al resto de los componentes con ellas.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Amazon UK Samsung SSD

Amazon UK SSD Enclosure

Glad I could help a little.

Hello, I switched what you mentioned and here is my new build:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

I still have a few questions I hope you don’t mind answering.
Why is the i5-8600k just as good or better than i7-7700k yet almost £100 cheaper on amazon?
Also is this the correct 860 evo ssd? https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B078WQJXNF/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1_1_5?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1 partpicker directs me to some weird more expensive one. Thank you.

I’m seeing it sub £50 on Amazon – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Solid-State-MZ-76E250B-EU/dp/B078WQJXNF

The enclosure you’ll probably want is this one – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sabrent-Tool-free-Enclosure-Optimized-EC-UASP-x/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S

Plenty other SSDs available on amazon, shop around, just make sure it’s at least 250GB, there are ones out there that are 240GB, but Xbox won’t recognise if it’s sub 250GB

>But like look at the actual price curve today,

>You can get a 1TB for $115, 0.5TB for $65, 0.25GB for $50.

Yes on one specific drive. If we look at another drive like the SanDisk SSD PLUS it scales like:

>240GB – $36.99

>480GB – $59.97

>1TB – $99.05

And in the UK that same drive doesn’t scale the same way.

> 250GB – £37.47

> 500GB – £62.39

> 1TB – £113.54

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>This is the latest gen that released a couple months ago,

>https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Internal-Version-MZ-77Q1T0B-AM/dp/B089C5P5SX?th=1

>250GB or 500GB aren’t even options anymore, you’ll be forced to buy at least 1TB SSD next time.

That’s hardly a fair comparison. That’s a QLC drive specifically designed for cheap storage at the cost of performance, power off time before power loss, and endurance. But honestly they’re so good at building them now that modern QLC is even better than some older SLC.

And the reason 1TB is the minimum is because the chips come in 1TB sizes. They’re 1TB in size because the economics worked out well for them like that, and the fact that they already have other drives aimed at smaller sizes. I’d be very surprised if Samsung actually stops making smaller drives for now, as a $99 entry point is going to kill off a lot of their sales.

>A 624x gain over 10 years is hardly plateaued, that’s actually around 18 years of Moore’s law. Outside of AI you wouldn’t really be seeing these gains. It would all be in the cloud.

Yes that was exactly my point, that demand for computation has plateaued at the edge. I wasn’t saying that actual speed increases have plateaued or that they haven’t moved to the cloud. It’s exactly the same as why most people are fine with a 250GB drive.

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Also available in Media Markt for 64€ (would link but I am on mobile currently)

Lol I obviously meant to write 71 and 63 euros in the title and not 163…