KitGuru Annual Awards 2013

When KitGuru was in short pants many decades ago, we dreamed of a world where hard drives would disappear and everything would be running on solid state technology. Just 3 years ago, the 240GB drives that are contesting our ‘Budget SSD' category were very expensive – many of them over £400.

That's the price of a decent laptop, just for a boot drive in a KitGuru reader's system.

2013 finally saw the price of seriously large drives come tumbling down.

Crucial caused a bit of a storm back in July, when it dropped the price of its 960GB unit to £400. After extensive testing and analysis, KitGuru has decided to go with the 1TB Samsung 840 EVO SSD in this category.

It is a genuine 1TB drive and that, alone, makes it sexier than the average SSD. It offers a genuine HDD level of storage, albeit at a cost premium.

In KitGuru's spread of data transfer torture testing benchmarks, the 1TB Samsung 840 EVO can hold its own in any read/write speed competition and the build quality on Samsung products is one of the reasons they are a global brand.

So the largest DDR3 memory company has taken the Budget award and now the biggest SSD company has taken the overall award. You would hate to be competing with these two in 2014.

You can read read our review on this SSD, over here.

KitGuru's choice for the Best Overall SSD in 2013 goes to the 1TB Samsung 840 EVO. Remember they do make other, smaller capacity models in the same range.

You can buy from Overclockers UK, from this link.

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