[Mashiro]

I would simply stay away from all "China" SSDs. They're made from bad quality lowend flash chips and controllers. Bascially they use hardware from SSD manufacturers that has been deemed low quality / broken and thus is not used to make a SSD or another product out of it. So these cheap China companies use these bad flash chips to create SSDs and sell them for cheap. They're really bad though. Many dead on arrival. A lot dying quickly after little use. The speeds are horrible. The controllers on such SSDs are usually also total trash (which contributes to the overall negative expereince). It's about as trashy as it gets. There is a reason why the flash chips were deemed unfit/unsafe for productional use.

A few brands that I can really recommend:
- Samsung (EVO series)
- Crucial (BX500 series)
- Western Digital
- Corsair
- SanDisk (least recommended but still works ok)

As far as I can follow you these brands, if bought brand new, might be out of your price range though?

Sadly here 128 GB SSDs aren't even sold anymore. They're so small... you can get 240/250/256 GB SSDs for around 30 € here though from OK brands. The better brands cost 10 - 15 € more ontop of that 30 €.

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My Crucial MX500 1 TB that I use as storage daily:





As you can see it's heavily used with over 50 TB write on it already in less than one year. I use it like you would use a normal HDD. I store downloads on it, install games on it and etc. It's still going strong.