So my hard drive that I bought 5 months ago is dying (3 bad sectors and it sounds like a coffee pot.) Just RMA'd it and they are crediting my account the $60 I paid for it. I realized that between my laptop, my trusty 250gb internal hdd and my 250gb external hdd i don't need a terrabyte of space, so I wont replace said hard drive with another hdd. I have been wanting an SSD that will allow me to record 1080p 60 fps though. can anybody recommend good reliable SSDs for $60-100?

Get a Samsung 850, either the Evo or Pro models.

Sansumg EVO... it is the best and can be found up to 1TB.

But well... $60-100? Realy? I guess the EVO 250GB fits in this price... not sure.

Yeah make sure that you don't get an old stock 840 evo though, Samsung still hasn't fixed a known performance degradation problem that's been growing for a long time now. An affected drive starts to nosedive horribly and even a total firmware update and fresh reinstall doesn't help. Afaik 850s aren't affected.

Thanks, the 250 GB Samsung Evo looks decent. The read/write speeds are really 550 MB/sec? Great! I have like 120 Mb/sec and can just barely record 1080p 30fps in my games. 250 GB should be plenty for me. Most of my disk right now (about 700 GB) is just various ISO's. Only about 150 GB of it are installed files/OS/Games, and I'm sure there are some things I don't need installed right at this moment. That should leave about 30-50 GB to leeway for recording video, then transferring said video to my various HDD's.

Something to remember with SSDs is that their performance drops the closer to full they are, it varies by model in how much that happens, but a good rule of thumb is to consider around 80-85% full as your limit. I'd recommend keeping an eye out for a good 1tb hdd for a bulk storage drive down the line to keep a safety valve open for moving data off.

Also a great way to get more space on your ssd is to go to an elevated (run as administrator) command prompt and type 'powercfg -h off' which removes the hibernation file. If you have 8gb ram, that frees 8gb ssd space. Hibernation is basically useless anyway for almost everyone.

Oooh could I ask what software you used to check the HDD's bad sectors, I used to have some software around 3 years back but I forgot it's name and since I've done a clean boot of my PC during Jan I completely forgot the name of the software and you just reminded me that I haven't checked mine in 2 years.

250gb nets around 232gb formatted as well.

Samsung 840 or 850, most bang for the buck easily. good drives

The pros are great, the 850 evo seems to be as well.  The 840 evo though is a failure. I have a couple of these in systems and they are going through various stages of decline.WWorth noting that as of today, these issues still persist. 

http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-news/latest-buzz/840-evo-performance-degradation-problems-persist-users-now-petitioning-samsung-replace-affected-ssds/