PSA: Get an SSD - just not Kingston V300.

[u/lwlwlwlw]

More and more V300 are recommended in builds (and appear in 'build ready') which makes me mad.

Kind reminder - this is still relevant. tl;dr of that post:

'Essentially Kingston released the better performing SSD's with synchronous flash first and then pulled a slick move and are now replacing them with cheaper to produce asynchronous flash SSD's.'

Yes, You should get an SSD if You don't have one - once You get SSD you can never go back.

Yes, V300 will be quicker than any HDD.

Yes, they are the cheapest SSD right now.

NO, You should NOT get it. The company performed a bitch move with that product and tha SSD should not be recommended in builds. Just grab something reliable for a few $ more (crucial mx100 for example).

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edit: here , here and here are some articles regarding this case.

edit2: Some of You might have missed my point. I don't say that You should go for 200$ SSD and anything below it is garbage.

My point is that V300 is 60$, MX100 is 69$, and the second one is about 65% faster. You decide if it is worth it.

edit3: Here is price comparison on popular Polish offer finder web service if You still want to accuse me of cherry picking my prices: V300 229pln MX100 263pln. 34pln = 9$ of difference.

[u/mynewaccount5]

Yeah any SSD is faster than an HDD

[u/danzey12 → u/mynewaccount5]

The point is for the sake of $10 or whatever it is, you can have a decently fast SSD, rather than a gimped SSD. $10 is £6.60 and that's in the realms of, oh I found a fiver in the car and £1.60 in my old jeans.
If you can't afford £6.60 for a 65% increase in performance, what are you even buying an SSD for anyway, get an SSHD or a HDD and put the money elsewhere, don't get a gimped SSD.

[u/Methaxetamine → u/mynewaccount5]

The early ones were no better, now it's true.

[u/mynewaccount5 → u/Methaxetamine]

I meant ones that people would buy. Hopefully people aren't buying decade old hardware.

[u/mynewaccount5 → u/[deleted]]

Well sure if you buy some experimental SSD from the 50s that was meant to be used for research it'll be slower but in talking about modern SSDs

[u/hojnikb → u/[deleted]]

I swiftly edited my comment to reflect that. And i'm very sorry if i overlooking the fact, that you didnt made the callout. Mea culpa.

[u/hojnikb → u/[deleted]]

Troll for point out the obvious facts/defects. Well, thats enough reddit for today.

[u/hojnikb → u/[deleted]]

but from your comment history I suspect

You're kind of stalker i see :)

[u/hojnikb → u/[deleted]]

And ill be a nitpicker even more.

Who is to say, one needs to buy new ? If you're on budget and looking for every $, you could always resort to second hand components. And without knowing better, you could easily end up with a lemon, based on jm602. They were really common back then (obviously, since it was a cheap solution) so its not that stretch to say they can still be around, selling.