The best for price for WD Black SN770 2TB SSD at the moment.
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Would you recommend this as a secondary drive for moving a large amount of files around and loading in hundreds of assets as well as a game drive? My main drive is a 2tb 980 pro but i'd like some extra fast storage as a secondary drive but i don't want it to collapse in performance when moving around a bunch of numerous and large files.
moving a large amount of files around and loading in hundreds of assets
I wouldn't recommend it for that.
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Although I suppose that depends on your definition of "large"
Large? Hundreds of gigabytes plus the assets are all 8k and depending on the scene the amount of models and textures being loaded is approximately in the hundreds if not thousands.
@CheapDateChamp: I have a 1TB version of the SN770 in a NUC12WSHI7 and when I transfer a 80GB 4k file to a ORICO enclosure housing a Samsung PM981 SSD it will sit at 800MB/s until completion and the same file back to the NUC will travel at 1000 MB/s all the way until completed. Transferring more than one file lets say 3,4,5 … + more files at a time, with a total of say 300Gb + will result in a significant speed drop right down to 40-80MB/s for the majority of the transfer which is slower than a HDD.
I'm still looking for a SSD that will sustain max speed when copying large files too and in my research so far I think an SSD with cache should do the job but I'm no expert and I'm not 100% sure yet but that's what I understand so far.
If anyone can recommend a SSD that will do the job … I'm all ears! cheers!
@joe8ss: Good god that's pretty bad and this is what i want to avoid and i am willing to pay for it. Seems like our loads are very similar. If you find an answer please keep me in mind as i'd love to know and would do the same. Thank you.
@CheapDateChamp: If you don't mind Silicon Power AND heatsink is not an issue, the OP posted this deal a while back:
While WD did a good job with SN770's firmware in general, the SSD market is very competitive at the moment.
@joe8ss: USB 3.2 gen 2 enclosures are not that great. You essentially put the SSD to run in PCIe gen 3 x2 mode. There are SSDs which can write close to 1000MB/s, but with USB 3.2 gen 2, it has to be large files and you cannot be copying multiple files in parallel. Copying multiple files in parallel would result in performance drop due to multiple factors (one of them being most SSDs, if not all, just are not good at that and USB 3.2 gen 2 doesn't help).
Thunderbolt 3 enclosure
USB 3.2 gen 2 enclosure
For that NUC, I would definitely use Thunderbolt when testing. However, Thunderbolt 3/4 enclosures are far too expensive and the Asus USB4 chipset, while performs well, won't be cheap either.
@netsurfer: I thought the orico enclosure was going to solve my problem … it has good speeds but only if transferring one or a couple of big files at a time, lucky for me I only paid $14 for it. Do you know if the Samsung T7 or the WD My Passport are capable of transferring multiple large 4k files or do they suffer the same performance drop as well?
Any recommendations for a cheap nvme drive with dram? Going into x370 so pcie gen 3 is good enough
970 Evo plus ($80 for 1TB, $150 for 2TB)
Are these any good ??
2TB Crucial P3 Plus M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD CT2000P3PSSD8 $147
Its "okay", it has QLC so worse sustained writes. I'd only consider this as a games drive, but at this price point an SLC drive like 970 evo plus, sn570 (no dram) or mp34 would be better
This deal would be miles better
wonder why they dont have 4tb model.
Dram-less, HMB.
Decent price for a 2TB PCI-E 4.0 compatible drive.
Will have sub-standard performance in a PS5, but will work. (I know how much you love to ask about PS5 compat)
Appears to have 3 different temperature points in SMART statistics. (I think it's front, controller and back?)