Hi Hi, I'm looking for a M.2 SATA SSD (256gb - 512gb), and I'm wondering what price and what brand should I be looking for? Is Crucial MX series still the to go to brand? Thanks, I haven't paid attention to the components market for a few years now, so I dunno what to expect, especially with lockdown affecting prices.
Price of M.2 SATA SSD?
Wonderfool on 31/05/2020 - 23:18
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I got a 1tb nd for $130 last week from amazon.
May I ask which model did you buy?
I bought a Corsair 480GB, but it was NVMe rather than SATA… mainly to free up SATA ports then any real world desired speed improvements.
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Thanks, I'll pay attention for it being on discount again.
Crucial still rates highly in the user satisfaction scores; Samsung, Western Digital black/blue, XPG, and HP are rated highly too. (crucial do now make some very slow SSDs at the cheap end of the market, though, too, so you definitely can't go by brand alone).
User ratings (as well as benchmarks) here: https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/
I entered the size I wanted, m2 only, set a minimum average benchmark so I wasn't getting anything too slow, and compared the top user-rated and top value-for-money with what was cheap on PC part picker AU.
In fact I only just bought mine (it's still in the mail) so most of my research spreadsheet is still current. Take a look if you like:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xMTXCsEMCrF4TMbiHPKs…
I put in price and average benchmark, then calculated how much the price and benchmark of each SSD differs from a single reference point (the popular WD blue SN550). I did find that some of what PCpartpicker AU listed was actually out of stock, I've got some comments there.
I ended up going with a pricey $120 Samsung 970 plus 250GB, but:
Unless you have loads of other storage already (like me) it's worth getting a bigger one. The 500GB ones are a lot less than double the price of the 250GB ones.
Unless you're planning to use it for a decade and can justify it (like me) you don't need the absolute fastest one. The difference in real-world performance isn't very noticeable between the top 20 or so fastest. They are all very fast.
I guess just over $100 for 500GB and about $80 for 256GB. The Crucial MX series are good, but I've used Samsung and Corsair drives as well and they're all good as well.