I'm building a laptop and I'm going to swap the internal HDD with an SSD, but since I have never used one, I do not know which is the best. I admit that I do not know much about SSDs and I do not know which ones produce less heat, are more reliable, etc. I am open to any and all suggestions.
SSD, better to choose kingston, crucial or western digital?
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Personally, I don't pay so much attention to brand name when it comes to this sort of thing. I tend to like to look at benchmarks and reviews to get an idea of how well an SSD should perform.You don't give too much details on your build, so it's hard to recommend one specifically, but I've had great success with the Samsung evo SSDs. I put one these into what was a crappy 4 year old PC and overclocked the cpu. It still runs competitively with brand new mid range laptops today.If you want a fast SSD at a competitive price point, I would look into the Samsung 850 evo. The 840 series is also still quite good if you need to bring down the price even more. It has a Max Sequential Read of 540 MB/s.This SSD will set you back a cool $100 for 250gb.If you're willing to spend a bit more you could also go for a NVMe PCIe SSD, which have god like speeds (we're talking 3.2 GB/s sequential write and a random read/write that absolutely smokes hard drives out of the water). But a glorious PCIe SSD comes with an equally glorious price tag.