UserBenchmark lists comprehensive consumer SSD benchmarks, although it does include some products that are not readily available in South Africa.<\/p>\n
We have therefore excluded any solid state drives that are not available in South Africa and ranked qualifying devices by effective speed.<\/p>\n
Check out the fastest solid state drives you can buy in South Africa below:<\/p>\n
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Samsung 850 Pro 1TB – R7,450<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\nRead: <\/strong>550MB\/s<\/p>\nWrite: <\/strong>520MB\/s<\/p>\n![\"Samsung](\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Samsung-850-Evo-2TB-SSD-Feature-Image.jpg\")
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\nSamsung 850 Pro 512GB – R4,039<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\nRead: <\/strong>550MB\/s<\/p>\nWrite: <\/strong>520MB\/s<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSamsung 850 Pro 256GB – R2,281<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\nRead: <\/strong>550MB\/s<\/p>\nWrite: <\/strong>520MB\/s<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSamsung 850\u00a0Evo 500GB – R2,899<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\nRead Speed:<\/strong> 540MB\/s<\/p>\nWrite Speed:<\/strong> 520MB\/s<\/p>\n![\"Samsung](\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Samsung-850-Evo.jpg\")
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\nSamsung 850\u00a0Evo 250GB – R1,629<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\nRead Speed:<\/strong> 540MB\/s<\/p>\nWrite Speed:<\/strong> 520MB\/s<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nSamsung 850\u00a0Evo 1TB – R5,599<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\nRead Speed:<\/strong> 540MB\/s<\/p>\nWrite Speed:<\/strong> 520MB\/s<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nIntel 730 Series 480GB – R8,264<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\nRead Speed: <\/strong>550MB\/s<\/p>\nWrite Speed: <\/strong>470MB\/s<\/p>\n![\"intel-730-series\"](\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Intel-730-Series.jpg\")
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\nSamsung 850 Evo 120GB – R1,299<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\nRead Speed:<\/strong> 540MB\/s<\/p>\nWrite Speed:<\/strong> 520MB\/s<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nSamsung 850 Pro 128GB – R1,664<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\nRead Speed: <\/strong>550MB\/s<\/p>\nWrite Speed: <\/strong>470MB\/s<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nOCZ Vector 150 240GB – R1,549<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\nRead Speed: <\/strong>550MB\/s<\/p>\nWrite Speed: <\/strong>450MB\/s<\/p>\n![\"vector-150\"](\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Vector-150.jpg\")
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\nOCZ Vector 180 480GB – R5,529<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\nRead Speed: <\/strong>550MB\/s<\/p>\nWrite Speed: <\/strong>530MB\/s<\/p>\n![\"vector-180\"](\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Vecotr-180.jpg\")
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\nNow read:\u00a0Samsung reveals high-capacity 960 Pro and 960 Evo SSDs<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These insanely powerful solid state drives will boost the performance of your gaming rig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":86730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18521,19295,19625,23242,2163,23200],"class_list":["post-110270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-buy","tag-fastest","tag-pcie","tag-sata","tag-south-africa","tag-ssds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Write: <\/strong>520MB\/s<\/p>\n Read: <\/strong>550MB\/s<\/p>\n Write: <\/strong>520MB\/s<\/p>\n Read: <\/strong>550MB\/s<\/p>\n Write: <\/strong>520MB\/s<\/p>\n Read Speed:<\/strong> 540MB\/s<\/p>\n Write Speed:<\/strong> 520MB\/s<\/p>\n Read Speed:<\/strong> 540MB\/s<\/p>\n Write Speed:<\/strong> 520MB\/s<\/p>\n Read Speed:<\/strong> 540MB\/s<\/p>\n Write Speed:<\/strong> 520MB\/s<\/p>\n Read Speed: <\/strong>550MB\/s<\/p>\n Write Speed: <\/strong>470MB\/s<\/p>\n Read Speed:<\/strong> 540MB\/s<\/p>\n Write Speed:<\/strong> 520MB\/s<\/p>\n Read Speed: <\/strong>550MB\/s<\/p>\n Write Speed: <\/strong>470MB\/s<\/p>\n Read Speed: <\/strong>550MB\/s<\/p>\n Write Speed: <\/strong>450MB\/s<\/p>\n Read Speed: <\/strong>550MB\/s<\/p>\n Write Speed: <\/strong>530MB\/s<\/p>\n These insanely powerful solid state drives will boost the performance of your gaming rig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":86730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18521,19295,19625,23242,2163,23200],"class_list":["post-110270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-buy","tag-fastest","tag-pcie","tag-sata","tag-south-africa","tag-ssds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSamsung 850 Pro 512GB – R4,039<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nSamsung 850 Pro 256GB – R2,281<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nSamsung 850\u00a0Evo 500GB – R2,899<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nSamsung 850\u00a0Evo 250GB – R1,629<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nSamsung 850\u00a0Evo 1TB – R5,599<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nIntel 730 Series 480GB – R8,264<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nSamsung 850 Evo 120GB – R1,299<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nSamsung 850 Pro 128GB – R1,664<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nOCZ Vector 150 240GB – R1,549<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nOCZ Vector 180 480GB – R5,529<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nNow read:\u00a0Samsung reveals high-capacity 960 Pro and 960 Evo SSDs<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"