What is today's cheap, but not quite sucky SSD 120+ and where? Ali, gearbest, computeruniverse...?

Question

Solid State Drives

We need something inexpensive for 120+ in an old beech on a Core 2 Duo T7250 to prolong its life.
What are the best options for today?
Any normal China?

Answer 1

As a rule, the most inexpensive ones are budget SSDs from well-known brands bought at the nearest large computer store. Price tag from 3 thousand.

old beech on Core 2 Duo T7250

This means that there is definitely no AHCI on this beech and the disk will work through the IDE.
As a result, TRIM will not work.
In order for an SSD to be useful in this particular situation, it is imperative to leave a reserve area of ​​sufficient size in order to compensate for the lack of TRIM.
In practice, this means that you will need to cut off 20-50GB of capacity from the disk, depending on the tasks.
If this is not done, the performance of the SSD will be below the baseboard, and this applies primarily to budget models, with weak hardware and a not very good controller.
Therefore, you need to clearly calculate the volume - so that everything you need fits and there is enough free space left.

Answer 2

I would take this in an old laptop: https://www.regard.ru/catalog/tovar268728.htm