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I have been looking at this very cheep SSD by Sandisk (Sandisk Enterprise X110 2.5" 128GB SATA III SSD) but on one website I found the term "end of life". Does this matter?
 
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sounds like a poor term to be used in most any context.

May I suggest not getting a cheep attack and ensuring you get something that will be reliable. Although Sandisk does make some good products, something near it's end of life is likely not what you want to pursue.

Also, Samsung has some impressive products including the EVO and the PRO lines.

The size you have is good - pleanty of room for modern operating systems and some extra programs. Much more than that may cause you to want a secondary data drive. Otherwise consider a 256Gig SSD as your all encompasing drive.
 
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Yeah, the only good SSD's out are either Samsung and Crucial. The Sandisk and PNY are not as good performance wise as the Samsung and Crucial brands. At least according to what I have read online. I have a 120gb Samsung Evo SSD.

Literally the only difference I notice between it and the HDD is when my desktop appears on startup, I literally can open programs (outlook, adobe, ie, etc) instantly with NO lag. I am serious, as soon as the desktop appears I start clicking and opening programs!
 
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Would a Crucial MX100 128gb be any good?
 
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No. According to the specs. It has very low write speeds and very low 4k random write speeds. A lesson I learned is that any SSD with 128gb or less does not perform nearly as well as SSD's with 256gb or more.

Get the 256gb version. Check the specs on several of them to compare the difference. Don't just take my word for it! :)

You want high read and write speeds (at least in the 500mbps) and high random read and random write speeds (both in the 80,000 at least).
 
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Looking for boot drive or desktop around £50. (Thanks for your help)
 
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I'd vote for the EVO, though do note that if you're open to used sources (or new items via normal auction, etc.),
there's often some good stuff on eBay. I won a Dell OEM 840 Pro 256GB for only 80 UKP, two orig new 840 Pro
128s for 63 each (item 261540059473, BIN listing), two used 840 250GB for 75 each, an almost new Vertex4
128GB for 50 (still a very good model), four new Sandisk Extreme II 128s for 45 each (BIN listing), a Sandisk
Ultra Plus 256GB for 65, and a Vector 512GB for 167. Sold some of them on in system builds, kept others.

But yes, for buying normal new, I'd go for the EVO, or there's the X210 which is also good (supports DEVSLP,
but maybe that's more relevant for laptops, etc.):

http://www.scan.co.uk/search.aspx?q=LN55598

Ian.

 
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