Need a new SSD, but need help

[snooby]

So my computer's busted now, which gives me an excuse to get an SSD and get rid of my hard drive which has been running like shit lately, I've had it for 6 years now, I think its time is up.

My problem is though, I've tried to upgrade to the Samsung 850 Evo 1tb before, and both times, I installed windows 10 fine on it, fresh install, and both times my computer would just lock up after only a couple minutes, being completely unusabe. So I sent it back to amazon thinking I just got a defective one, along with my windows 10 usb and got new ones. Same thing happened again, so I was fairly certain that my mother board couldn't run the SSD or something. So I googled my motherboard compatible SSDs, and guess what shows up, the samsung 850 evo.

MY MOTHERBOARD IS GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-GAMING 3

Is there a different SSD that I should order? Or should I try the samsung again and I'm thinking this time order a windows 10 CD instead of a windows 10 USB, maybe the USB gets corrupt easily and that's what kept happening.

I want to do a clean install, I don't want to transfer my files over from my harddrive now.

Thoughts anybody, I wanna order it like tonight ASAP so I can get back on as soon as possible

 

[Dugimodo]

Firstly, in what way is your computer busted. What's wrong with it? could be important to the answer.

Next is to figure out what's causing the lock ups, maybe start by checking the UEFI/BIOS has the hard drive mode set to AHCI and then run a memory test to see if your RAM is ok. Faulty RAM can cause symptoms that look like a faulty drive - corrupted files, failed installs, lockups etc. Not saying yours is bad, just that you need to test it.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-memory-diagnostics-tool-in-windows-7

 

[snooby]

Firstly, in what way is your computer busted. What's wrong with it? could be important to the answer.

Next is to figure out what's causing the lock ups, maybe start by checking the UEFI/BIOS has the hard drive mode set to AHCI and then run a memory test to see if your RAM is ok. Faulty RAM can cause symptoms that look like a faulty drive - corrupted files, failed installs, lockups etc. Not saying yours is bad, just that you need to test it.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-memory-diagnostics-tool-in-windows-7

Well the thing is when the samsungs wouldn't work, I just went back onto my HDD with no problem. I had this problem months before and I did a ram test for some dude and he said my ram is fine.

What's busted now is my computer goes into repair mode on start up, and says it can't repair and when I try to run it back to another date in recovery mode, it gives me an error. I've been force shutting it down often now because it's been pissing me off. Last night I hit shut down instead of sleep by accident and didn't want to wait for it to shut down so I just held the power button.

In my old thread, some dude commented that he had my problem and apparently samsung has a recent firmware update that fixed the problem, and I just saw his comment. So possibly try the samsung again for the third time?

EDIT: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3248274/samsung-850-evo-freezing-windows.html
if you wanna see, we tried it all

 

[schaft]

This might sound stupid, but are you using original window 10? Because I never heard win 10 were sold in usb form in my country.

If you are not sure, then the window might be not original thus will have problem AFTER you update it (lock up).

If you sure yours are original, just forget I have mentioned it.

Ssd has lots of brands, samsung 850 evo is just one of the top performance in SATA form. If you pick wisely you can get the similar performance with much cheaper price with other brand. Here is alink that gave rough information of what kind performance you will get:
http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/SanDisk-X400-256GB-vs-Samsung-850-Pro-256GB/m81834vs2385

Good luck

 

[Dugimodo]

Windows is sold on USB, I have one right here. You can also create a USB installation media using the MS media creation tool if you used the free upgrade option or purchased a key online.

The worry here is that whatever is causing your current problems could be related to what happened to the SSD's last time and buying a new one may not help you. If you want to try though, well Samsung are not the only SSD maker out there. There are plenty of solid options available, maybe a muskin or crucial drive might be worth a try. Here's some food for thought http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-ssds,3891-2.html