Best Prime Day Option for a Gen3 SSD

freedomj on 16/07/2024 - 10:32
Last edited 18/07/2024 - 10:29

Edit: Current pick for budget SSD is

Crucial T500 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD with $10 ZIP pay discount, price comes down to 114.37 delivered

This is the best deal for DRAM and >5000MB/s read & write I've seen, only downside is UK import which means waiting for arrival.

Will this low end Gen4 cap out PCIe 3.0:

Kingston - NV2 M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1TB $94

Other PCIe 4.0 options:
* Crucial P3 Plus 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD Drive, 1000 GB ($948)
* WD_BLACK 1TB SN770 ($102)

Or am I better off getting a high end Gen3, such as Kingston KC, Samsung 970 Evo or Patriot P3 Plus (~$95 1TB) [keeping in mind I may upgrade within a few years]
Sequential reads(?) used to mean bigger was better, is this as obvious with 2TB>1TB?

For a Dell XPS 9300 16GB

Computing Computer Component SSD

Comments

  • MS Paint on 16/07/2024 - 10:40

    Best Prime Day Option for a Gen3 SSD

    Thursday

  • freefall101 on 16/07/2024 - 11:37
    +1

    The NV2 is a particularly poor drive because Kingston tended to change hardware based on whatever is cheapest, I'd spend the extra $8 on the SN770.

    Reality is you're not going to notice any difference between gen 3 or 4 though, unless you do a lot of video work. Games are just starting to make use of fast SSDs and even then the difference between 3,000MBps and 7,000MBps means a couple of seconds of load time on a giant game or transferring files in the tens of gigabytes.

    • freedomj on 16/07/2024 - 12:24

      Thanks for your help

      Kingston budget drives you mean? a KC3000 is a blazingly fast drive no?

  • frondono on 16/07/2024 - 11:48

    Max speeds for Gen three is around 3500mbps.

  • OMGJL on 16/07/2024 - 11:48
    +1

    the nv2 is QLC and is dog poo.

    You'll have better experience using a better drive limited to PCIe 3.0x1 than using this with full PCIe 4.0 x4

    • freedomj on 16/07/2024 - 12:26

      what's the current standard for high end consumer? TLC?

      • OMGJL on 16/07/2024 - 13:18

        TLC is one factor, having good controller is next, then followed by having DRAM cache.

        If you want to go full picky mode, then rule out those that's not original NAND manufacturer, which left Samsung/WD(SanDisk)/Kioxia/Hynix(Solidigm)

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