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Let me put it this way. If you look at consumer reviews of all SSDs on Newegg, the Samsung 840s is one of the few getting review scores of five out of five (the rest are getting four out of five, which isn't shabby). While the 840 Pro is superior (and more expensive) to the 840, that doesn't mean the 840 is not still a good SSD. For its price range, the 840 is easily as good as it gets. Unless you use the snot out of your laptop all day everyday (and maybe not even then), the 840 will do just fine as long as you make sure 25% of its capacity remains empty.
If cost and capacity are issues, the Seagate 500GB SSHD is still a good compromise between cost, capacity, reliability (it's been getting pretty decent reviews), and performance. As I already mentioned, even though I could (kindasorta)afford a 512GB 840 Pro, I just couldn't justify spending that much for a drive for a computer that cost considerably less than the drive. Even the 500GB 840 was too much of a stretch, especially since that notebook doesn't get used that much. That's why I decided on the SSHD. It won't be as fast as an SSD but it is already faster than the original HDD and should get better with more use and only cost me 1/7 of what the SSD would have cost. For me, it's a happy compromise but only you can decide what your needs will be.