Is your laptop slow? Fix it with these 1TB SSDs on sale

Goldenfir SATA 1TB

We wanted to look for SSD units at a very reasonable price, thinking to give a second life to portable video and even use them as an external hard drive. The first of the options we found is this cheap Chinese SSD. Specifically, this unit Goldenfir SATA 1TB costs 46.58 dollarswhich represents a discount of 65%.

It must be said that it is a super simple unit and the cheapest that we have found. According to the manufacturer, this device offers a read speed between 300 and 580 MB/s. According to write speedhe moves on the margins of the 350-550 MB/s. There’s no specification of how long the drive will last in terabytes written, but come on, for that price.

This unit has a risk and it is that many users have found themselves when buying these SSDs which are really glued and soldered microSD memory cards.

Kingston A400 960 GB

W ithout a doubt, it is one of the best known units on the market for its brutal quality/price ratio. The Kingston A400s are the best-selling SSDs on the market, selling in spades. These units aren’t the fastest on the market, nor are they the most stable, but the price is brutal.

The Kingston A400 unit we chose has a 960 GB capacity. Note that these units have the distinction of using second-range memories, so to speak. These are memories whose construction technology is between two and three generations behind that used in other units. What it allows is to offer economic units with good performance. This unit offers a 500MB/s read speed and an 450MB/s write speed.

Really, whatever its use, it is a versatile unit for having good performance and a very low price.

WD Green 1TB

Now we go with another one of those storage unit makers of a lifetime that has a huge catalog. Western Digital (alias WD) is a manufacturer known above all for its hard drives first then for its SD memory cards. As usual, they also make good quality solid state drives at a fairly reasonable price.

They maintain the Green range in their storage units, which ranges from HDD to SSD. This WD Green SSD is characterized by the offer 1TB of storage capacity. This unit offers us a speed of read up to 545 MB/s

and a speed of write up to 500MB/s. For the rest, there is nothing relevant to say, since it is a simple SSD.

It is a high-quality storage drive that offers performance close to the maximum that SATA III can deliver.

Crucial MX500 1TB

It may not be as well known as the other two brands, but it is one of the most important SSD manufacturers. Crucial has the advantage that it is the registered trademark of Micron, one of the largest memory manufacturers in the world. This allows Crucial drives to be priced hard for other manufacturers with excellent performance.

offers us this Crucial MX500 1TB a speed of read up to 560 MB/s and a speed of write up to 510 MB/s. This unit offers us high security AES-256 encryption to protect the information in our unit.

The big advantage of Crucial is that by running out of “middlemen” in memory, you can adjust prices further and have a very capable device at a great price.

POSUGEAR 2.5″ Hard Drive Enclosure

If you’re thinking of buying an SSD-based external hard drive, forget about it. External SSDs are great, due to their high transfer speeds, but they’re usually over $100. You can have a solution that gives you great performance for a lot less money. With one of the units shown and this POSUGEAR External SSD Enclosureyou will have a high performance external hard drive for little money.

This external box uses a USB 3.0 connection which allows speeds of 5 Gbps to be reached, which is equivalent to 600 MB/s. Then the gears transfer time depends on many factors, but is generally about 400 MB/s stable. We will be able to obtain much of the performance from the SSD unit that we use as an external unit, obviously not all of it.

It can be a great solution to mount an external SSD saving money or to take advantage of an old SSD or even a 2.5 inch hard drive that we are going to stop using for some reason.