{"id":68772,"date":"2014-09-29T06:59:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T04:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=68772"},"modified":"2014-09-29T07:08:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T05:08:22","slug":"ssd-upgrade-guide-sa-prices-sizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/68772-ssd-upgrade-guide-sa-prices-sizes","title":{"rendered":"SSD upgrade guide: SA prices, sizes"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are looking for a sure-fire way to speed up your gaming PC (or any PC, for that matter), an SSD is a *cough* solid choice.<\/p>\n

The thinner, smaller, and faster drives easily out perform their conventional predecessors – those big clunky ones that have spinning discs inside them – but this performance comes at a price.<\/p>\n

While a WD 1TB 7,200rpm 3.5-inch internal drive retails for around the R750, a\u00a0Transcend SSD 128GB cost the same price.<\/p>\n

Despite this price premium, I can personally vouch for the pros of SSD usage. After upgrading my work laptop and slotting in a 512GB Samsung SSD, life has been a lot more pleasant.<\/p>\n

But enough with the life story, let’s get down to size and price.<\/p>\n

If you are in the market for an SSD, or want to speed up your PC, take a look, below, at what the local retail market has to offer.<\/p>\n

If you are unsure as to whether you need an SSD, check out our SSD guide<\/a> for some pointers.<\/p>\n

Please note that all prices were accurate at the time of writing.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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64GB SSD<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Retailer<\/strong><\/td>\nModel<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rebel Tech<\/td>\nTranscend SSD370<\/td>\nR585<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Loot<\/td>\nTranscend SSD340<\/td>\nR661<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kalahari<\/td>\nADATA SP900<\/td>\nR798<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Evetech<\/td>\nSanDisk X110<\/td>\nR799<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raru<\/td>\nADATA SP900<\/td>\nR835<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Takealot<\/td>\nVerbatim SATA II<\/td>\nR1,233<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\"64GB<\/a>

64GB Kingston SSD<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n
128GB SSD<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Retailer<\/strong><\/td>\nModel<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rebel Tech<\/td>\nCorsair Force LX<\/td>\nR956<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kalahari<\/td>\nAdata SP900<\/td>\nR1,097<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Orange<\/td>\nSamsung 840 Evo (120GB)<\/td>\nR1,140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Evetech<\/td>\nCrucial M550<\/td>\nR1,199<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Loot<\/td>\nTranscend SSD 720<\/td>\nR1,208<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Takealot<\/td>\nSamsung 840 Pro<\/td>\nR1,541<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raru<\/td>\nVerbatim SATA II<\/td>\nR1,870<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\"128GB<\/a>

128GB Corsair SSD<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n
180GB SSD<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Retailer<\/strong><\/td>\nModel<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raru<\/td>\nIntel 530 Series<\/td>\nR1,969<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Takealot<\/td>\nCorsair GS Series<\/td>\nR1,981<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rebel Tech<\/td>\nIntel 530 Series<\/td>\nR2,370<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\"Intel<\/a>

Intel SSD<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n
256GB SSD<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Retailer<\/strong><\/td>\nModel<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rebel Tech<\/td>\nCrucial MX100<\/td>\nR1,561<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Evetech<\/td>\nSandisk X110<\/td>\nR1,699<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raru<\/td>\nCorsair Force LX<\/td>\nR1,769<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kalahari<\/td>\nAdata SP900<\/td>\nR1,864<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Takealot<\/td>\nCrucial M550<\/td>\nR2,022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Orange<\/td>\nSamsung 850 Pro<\/td>\nR2,605<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Loot<\/td>\nTranscend SATA III<\/td>\nR2,633<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\"256GB<\/a>

256GB Samsung SSD<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n
360GB SSD<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Retailer<\/strong><\/td>\nModel<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Takealot<\/td>\nCorsair Force GS<\/td>\nR3,497<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raru<\/td>\nCorsair Force GS<\/td>\nR3,583<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rebel Tech<\/td>\nIntel 530 Series<\/td>\nR4,148<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Loot<\/td>\nIntel 530 Series<\/td>\nR4,323<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\"360GB<\/a>

360GB Corsair SSD<\/p><\/div>\n

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512GB SSD<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Retailer<\/strong><\/td>\nModel<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Evetech<\/td>\nCrucial MX100<\/td>\nR2,799<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rebel Tech<\/td>\nCrucial M550<\/td>\nR3,917<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kalahari<\/td>\nSamsung 840 Evo (500GB)<\/td>\nR3,947<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raru<\/td>\nAdata Permier Pro SP910<\/td>\nR4,185<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Takealot<\/td>\nOCZ Vertex 450 Series<\/td>\nR4,788<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Orange<\/td>\nSamsung 850 Pro<\/td>\nR4,895<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Loot<\/td>\nSamsung 850 Pro<\/td>\nR5,325<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\"512GB<\/a>

512GB Samsung SSD<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n
750GB SSD<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Retailer<\/strong><\/td>\nModel<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Takealot<\/td>\nCrucial M550<\/td>\nR3,732<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raru<\/td>\nSamsung 840 Evo<\/td>\nR5,015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\"750GB<\/a>

750GB Samsung SSD<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n
1TB SSD<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Retailer<\/strong><\/td>\nModel<\/strong><\/td>\nPrice<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Orange<\/td>\nSamsung 840 Evo<\/td>\nR5,770<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kalahari<\/td>\nSamsung 840 Evo<\/td>\nR5,982<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raru<\/td>\nSamsung 840 Evo<\/td>\nR6,155<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Takealot<\/td>\nCrucial M550<\/td>\nR6,591<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Evetech<\/td>\nCrucial M550<\/td>\nR6,599<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rebel Tech<\/td>\nKingston V310 (960GB)<\/td>\nR7,587<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

See anything you like? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n

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Face it, your hard drive – all 7200rpm of it – is getting a bit long in the tooth. It’s time to go Solid State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":69005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2589,21,2101],"class_list":["post-68772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-hard-drive","tag-headline","tag-ssd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68772","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69107,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68772\/revisions\/69107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}