What is the best deal for NVME drives now? I Would like recommendations for 1,2 and 4 terabyte drives for the main drive.
I am looking for some for older computers I am fixing up so don’t want to spend a fortune but don’t want junk for main drives either. A couple years ago I bought Team Group Cardera Z440s but their are probably better options now. My old mother boards only have one NVME slot so will likely go for larger ones.
You did not specify new or used.
Also did not specify what generation PCIe slot or use case.
If you’re refurbishing machines to resell, recommendations will be dramatically different than trying to repurpose old enterprise gear for homelab use.
Gotta put forth more effort for people to want to share things we’ve looked up ourselves.
I’m only interested in new unless its a super deal from a reliable seller. I believe the slots are gen 3 but I am using the gen 4 listed above in one works fine. I am more interested in reliability than speed as most NVME are fine. It is for my kids personal mid/low end gaming computers. No doubt they will one day be migrated to better computers. I think I am most interested in 2 terabyte drives as I doubt I want to put out the money for 4T and 1 is really to small now.
Because I am using an older i9 10850K Z490 system that doesn’t support Gen 5 PCIe I recently got this.
Silicon Power 4TB UD90 NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 SSD R/W up to 5,000/4,500 MB/s (SP04KGBP44UD9005)
$210 on Amazon
It had good reviews and it’s plenty fast enough.
in other news
I am using my old 1TB Intel SSD paired with a 4TB HDD for the Primo Cache app. RAM disk + SSD cache speed mated to HDD capacity = ‘Hybrid Drive’ ? I know there are smarter ways to do this experiment, but I’m liking easy PrimoCache so far. It reporting a 77% hit rate.
For a repurposed gaming computer, you should be fine with any of the established players.
Would be fine for their use case and it becomes a set it and forget it. Using a smaller drive will cause more wear and tear from the kids shuffling game installs than if you had a larger drive to begin with.
A 4 TB drive with 2.2 TB of data written will see 25-30% less writes than shuffling data on a 2 TB drive. So you can afford a 25-30% shittier drive, and for something only gonna last a few years in this capacity, SP is fine.
I also just compared prices, The Silicon Power 4TB seems to be the best deal.
2TB -2230 is $140
2TB - 2280 w/ heatsink is $186
This one is on sale today Any reason it wouldn’t be better other than size? Nextorage Japan 2TB NVMe M.2 2280 PCIe Gen.4 Internal SSD Read Speed up to 7400MB/s Write Speed Up to 6400 MB/s (G LE Series) - Newegg.com