Reddit reviews Inland Professional 240GB SSD 3D NAND SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (240G)

120 GB should be fine for Windows and basic applications, business PCs on a 120 GB drive are pretty solid, and leaves about half the drive free on average. That being said, you need to remember to leave a lot of free space (20-30 GB) at all times to account for Windows upgrades.

Also, 240 GB SSDs are super, super cheap right now, it's hard to image why you'd feel like you needed to keep to a 120 GB. This isn't best in class by any means, but these have been pretty reliable from my experience: https://www.amazon.com/Inland-Professional-240GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B076XXMJZH

If you’re just looking for a boot ssd the 120gb is only 25.99

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B076XXMJZH/ref=twister_B076XFGK32?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

$150?!? Yeah right, more like $40. The “ssd” argument is not stupid, and it is not like telling a PC player to up their graphics card...not even close. Anyways I provided some amazon links for a quick, easy, and cheap upgrade. The difference will be night and day, you will literally load into strikes before everyone else and be waiting on them for the strike to start. There will even be some leftover space for a few extra games.

Inland Professional 240GB SSD 3D NAND SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (240G) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076XXMJZH/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_oGKUDbR2YMWA5

Sabrent 2.5-Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool-Free External Hard Drive Enclosure [Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III] Black (EC-UASP) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_.HKUDb46P96Q1

I would strongly recommend the Inland 240GB SSD

https://www.amazon.com/Inland-Professional-240GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B076XXMJZH?th=1

Like I said it was cheap. But over using a normal hard drive, it did speed it up and was worth the money I spent.

For my main boot drive I'd go with something better most likely a Samsung SSD.

Drive Physical Size: 2.5" m.2
Drive Connector Speed: Sata vs Nvme. Nvme is technically much faster but if you look at speed comparison videos on youtube Nvme is maybe 5% faster but often 2x more expensive.

Hdd: uses physical spinning platters to save data. Older technology. Much slower than ssd's. Only sizes are 3.5" and 2.5". Only Sata.

Ssd: Uses solid state electronics to store data. Comes in sll sizes and all interfaces. Much faster, especially for random access which is the most common.

The best balance for speed and cost is usually sata ssd. 2.5" or m.2 doesn't matter as cost and speed are the same, but 2.5" works with older motherboards.

128gb: obsoleted by current prices, spend $5 more and get 250gb
250gb: minimum drive size you should get, 500gb is a better general size
500gb: best price/gb ratio, good if you play a few large games but don't need a ton of space
1tb: good general size if you do use a ton of space - games, movies, music
2tb: ssd starts to become far more expensive than hdd at this point and above

Ok Cheapest Brands: Adata, Sandisk Plus, Inland. Kingston is poor quality.
Good Midrange Brands: Wd Blue 3d, Crucial mx500. I prefer this point myself because I'd pay a little more for better quality control and testing.
Expensive: Samsung Evo
Pointlessly Expensive: Samsung Pro. This is like "we have to pay $500 to have the drive replaced in our high security bunker so we don't care about cost" level

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$30 - 250gb inland
https://www.amazon.com/Inland-Professional-240GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B076XXMJZH/
$40 - 250gb crucial mx500 (definitely better quality)
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-250GB-NAND-Internal/dp/B0781VSXBP/

500gb versions are $50 and $65.

You can pick up a $37 240gb Inland ssd from Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076XXMJZH/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_PSYYBbVR91NRP

Subnautica is badly made. People report that even with gtx 1080 and highend CPU they get fps drops.

Upgrade your GPU first. If you are not graphics and fps type of guy I would recommend getting rx 570 4gb. It has the highest fps/$ and is good for 1080p.

Long load times is because of a slow HDD. You can get fast SSD, reinstall/transfer Windows, reinstall dark souls 3.

The system will become much more responsive.

I recommend getting this one. Best value for $ in my opinion.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076XXMJZH/?tag=pcpapi-20

For streaming, you can use your GPU horsepower instead of CPU. No need to upgrade CPU.

I doubt you will run out of RAM, so it can wait.

So far you need only GPU + SSD. $150 + $30 = $180. That is all you need.

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Got one as well for $589 US off eBay with a 20% coupon. :) Previously I had gone thru two Dell XPS 15's (9570) and their light bleed / hot spotting were just atrocious so I returned them. Especially considering they were $1,200+ laptops. I also tried out the Matebook 14 from Walmart for ~$620. It was very nice but I didn't care for the glossy screen. Plus I really wanted to be in a 15.6 laptop. I'm McLovin my Matebook D 15.6. NO light-bleed/hot spotting around the edges. Extremely little flex. I installed a $40 240gb Inland SSD https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076XXMJZH. What's nuts is the 1tb WD (WD10SPZX) that came with it can probably get ~$30 off eBay after fees/shipping. Kinda wanna get another 8gb chip to go dual channel but prices are pretty steep right now ($60+ used) so I'mma gonna wait on that, no real need for it either IMO but, because OCD.





I was able to get a -0.09v underclock and it knocked my gaming temps from yo-yo'ing from 65-70c to a solid 65c. Diablo 3 gets 55-60fps in 1080 with everything turned max except for aliasing and shadows set to medium. Idles ~40-43c while just browsing. Goes down to 38c when not doing anything. I'm OCD for fan noise as well. While just browsing simple sites or Youtube the fan doesn't come on at all! JOY!!! If I play something a bit more intense like Cookie Clicker the fans will ramp up a bit.





Yeah, I wish it had USB-C, and yeah, I wish it had back lit keys. But the bang for buck on this metal chassis matte IPS for ~$600 once I sell the 1tb is amazing IMO.

Get at least double the capacity, it's only an extra $10: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076XXMJZH/

Throw this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076XXMJZH/?tag=pcpapi-20

Into this:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883101686

And call it a day. A 15 year old PC using what is likely a Pentium 4 or old Athlon isn't worth salvaging and as others have said let the pre-built company worry about tech support.

If you're charging extra for the shipping+paypal fees, then isn't that going to end up more than those parts (2400g combo) are new? At least currently.

• 2400g $160
  
• Mobo $120
  
• Case $80
  
• SSD $40

As every other person has said, it's not just boot time... you are not waiting for anything, no long running background disk operations, no services hogging I/O, you don't even realize your anti-virus is scanning system files, no disk grinding while a folder you just opened is populating icon thumbnails. Everything just operates instantly.

40 bucks get's you a 240gb ssd.. it's not the fastest, but the point is to get your first hit, then you'll see what the hoopla is.

https://www.amazon.com/Inland-Professional-240GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B076XXMJZH

By the way, I think you're getting slowed down by running your operating system on a hard drive. I'd recommend getting a cheap 240 GB from Inland Professional and throw your OS on it. Your processor/graphics card shouldn't be the problem.

For an option for a 16"+ laptop, how about the ASUS Vivobook Pro N705UD? It has:

• i7-8550U 4-core processor
  
  
• 16 GB of RAM
  
  
• 256 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD storage
  
  
• GTX 1050 4 GB graphics card
  
  
• Weight of 4.6lbs and battery life up to 8 hours
  
  The laptop runs Windows 10 Home. The uses you listed will be excellent for this laptop. You should be able to run a lot of programs at the same time, since it has 16 GB RAM.

Looks pretty good for a budget build. You probably know this, but having that 1 stick of 8 GB RAM is great if you ever decide to expand memory later (just get another 8 GB stick.)

I would personally get a different PSU, but I think thermaltake is a good brand. You'll probably want to hear from others here. It can provide plenty of power, the only thing I'd be worried about is the quality (cheapness, basically.)

Also, as far as the SSD goes, I'd go ahead and drop it down to their 240 gigabyte model, then purchase a 7200 RPM, 1 TB HDD from whatever manufacturer you please. Install Windows to the SSD, and use the larger 1 TB drive for storage, basically anything that doesn't need to load quickly. It's a cheap way to massively increase storage space on your computer.

Don't forget to budget in a copy of Windows, unless you want to install it without a key.

Asks for a budget SSD, doesn't give a budget.

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Inland makes some great SSDs for really low prices.

240GB for $28
480GB for $49
1TB for $85