Hey everyone.
Looking for an SSD as I'm running low on storage.
It'll be used for a mixture of games and general MS office. I'm overwhelmed as there are heaps of options. Don't know what dram is and whether I value from it or not.
Desired size: 1tb
Form factor: m.2
Currently using a 970 Evo plus for my OS and everything else it's been great but expensive to get another 970 especially when crucial and Kingston are much cheaper.
Now 22% off using PLSAV2
I assumed you want a second M.2 SSD that is also NVMe, not SATA. Your computer will take a second NVMe drive, will it?
Thanks for the suggestion, yes I have a 2nd slot
No, no, no, there's two sorts of M.2 drives. NVMe and SATA III. And there's three sorts of M.2 slots. Ones that'll only take NVMe drives, ones that'll only take SATA III drives, and ones that'll take either. Before you buy an M.2 drive you have to check the type of M.2 slot you want it to work in to make sure it will.
We know your first slot is an M.2 NVMe slot because a 970 Evo plus is an M.2 NVMe drive. NVMe slots are usually described with terms like "gen 3 x4". If the second slot that you want to put the second drive into doesn't include something like that in the description, if it only refers to it being able to take SATA III M.2 drives, you need a SATA III M.2 drive.
If it is a secondary drive and your PC supports two NVMe drives, the WD Blue 570 GordonD suggested (whether you buy it from there or not) is a good unit, frankly they're a good budget boot drive even (my daughter's PC has the older SN550 in it).
Basically if it is just bulk storage, get whatever.
The drives with DRAM are in general more important for your boot drive, but even then normal person workloads tend to not use up the SLC caches that the drives without DRAM use.
If you're video editing or something that moves craploads of data around, the DRAM and NAND type matter.
Office and game storage, nope get whatever is cheapest but isn't a no-name dodgy thing. So anything Samsung, Crucial, WD, Kingston, Sabrent, etc is fine.
Perfect, thanks for the explanation. No video editing just storage for games. It'll do more reading rather than writing huge chunks
You don't seem to be obsessed with getting the absolute best device. Just one that's good enough. And you want a good price.
So how about this:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/125131596736?hash=item1d226ca3c0…
$135 minus 20% is $108 shipped. You can't get much better than that. And by all reports its a good though not outstanding product.
As long as you can still get the 20% off. Not sure when that ends.