Probably the lowest these have been for those needing a SATA SSD (old PS4 needing a new drive?)
The lower capacity options are decent value too - $69.95 for 960GB. $0.07/GB for SSD is hard to beat even with the recent drop in solid state storage prices.
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old PS4 needing a new drive?
I'd still recommend an SSD with DRAM for a Playstation 4 boot drive.
It's better than a HDD though.
If you mean external storage, this would be great value option
Given the original PS4 is Sata 2 only, not sure the DRAM would make a material difference.
Strange that Sony restricted something as basic as SATA 3 to the PS4 Pro. And didn't add it into the PS4 Slim at the very least.
Maybe, I think you may feel the slowdowns with large writes.
On my PS4 Pro, I used to get pauses in Spider-Man occasionally which put a loading % in the middle of the screen with my Crucial BX500.
Since changing to a 870 QVO, it stopped doing that.
Can't 100% say it was the SSD since I had to fresh install the game but I suspect it was.
Also felt the slowdowns when installing and moving games to an external drive.
As you said, the original and slim PS4 are limited to SATA II so it might not be as apparent with a dramless drive.
I think it's still worthwhile getting a good quality SSD for the internal drive just to avoid the potential hassle and to reduce the chances of the drive dying.
Even just a smaller 500GB drive and using this as an external if I needed all this space
The slowdown of writes on large writes is not caused by DRAMless. It's actually the opposite. Writing lots of small files hurts DRAMless SSD's performance. The reason people also notice the slow down in sustained write on DRAMless SSD is actually due to another issue: SSD makers don't just cut cost on the DRAM, most of the time, they will also use inferior controller and inferior NAND. Those 2 are the real cause of the large file sustained write slow down.
For PS4, honestly, even if the SSD is slow in writes, it is not really going to matter. PS4 only has USB 3.0 and you most likely will be copying files from a portable HDD. The less you spent on PS4 now the better, unless you intend to use that SSD (externally) when you move on to PS5.
Crucial BX500 has a known issue. On occasion, it will run internal house keeping type activities and can slow down a lot. Not sure whether Crucial released a firmware to address that issue. 870 QVO's sustained write speed isn't that great. For gaming, it is the reads that matter the most that's why QLC SSDs are okay for gaming.
This is definitely a decent drive for a secondary or tertiary games drive. Unless you need the fastest loading speeds ever, most SATA SSDs would load within 1-2 seconds of the Gen 3/4 NVME drives, unless Direct Storage become readily available, but I don't think that is coming out anytime soon.
I have this exact same drive for like 3 months already, and it seem like its still in good health, and performance wise it's been great.
Some CrystalDisk info/mark in the link
Seems the D drive isn't so healthy.
Yeah, its just a 10 year old 4TB HDD, which I just download stuff to storage and move onto other drives, so yeah it's seen quite a few years. :)
Say I have a 4TB HDD for my steam library and xbox game pass.
Is this holding my PC back massively? I've only used SSD for operating system up until now.
Is it time to make the change to SSD for everything game related?
It's not going to give you a FPS boost (unless if the HDD already causes games to stutter when loading new parts of the map), but generally switching to a HDD to a SSD for games does make a tremendous difference. E.g. in this comparison video, a HDD can take over 3x as long to load into a game when compared to a SATA SSD.
I got my first SSD when playing Dragon Age 3. The first level took minutes to load, and in some quests, required you to load it multiple times in quick succession as you changed zones.
Another issue HDDs have is texture popin. It can be very noticeable in some games.
The final thing I noticed was load times in MP games. Instead of being last to load, you're first. In some games this is a big advantage for spawn location.
If you have none of these issues, and are perfectly happy with what you have, then it's fine. If any of these issues affect you, then going full SSD is a big improvement. Save the spinning rust for videos, where speed is irrelevant.
I definitely recommend at least transferring the games you're currently playing to SSD. Makes a big difference for loading times. I usually have 2 or 3 games on my boot SSD and just leave the rest on the HDD.
You get what you pay for. SMI SM2259XT (DRAM-less) paired with Micron’s 64L QLC flash (N18A). So performance and endurance should be worst in SSD league.
Performance seems to be surprisingly adequate overall for a SATA drive:
So overall the Patriot Burst Elite 1.92TB model delivers on performance (for a SATA III model), capacity, durability and cost
These are the specs for the 1.92 version - 800TBW is likely plenty for the average punter, definitely so if it is only used as a game/archive drive.
• 4K Aligned Random Read: up to 40K IOPs
• 4K Aligned Random Write: up to 40K IOPs
• Sequential Read (ATTO): up to 450MB/s
• Sequential Write (ATTO): up to 320MB/S
• Terabytes Written (TBW): 800TB
• Interface: SATA III 6Gb/s
• Form Factor: 2.5"
• Operating Voltage: 5v
• Operating Temperature: 0 ~ 70°C
Is this brand any good?
Longtime brand for good quality memory, more recently also into value range of SSD.
i use their ram, i feel like an american
I feel like I need to hang up a flag when I use this SSD
now $182 :(
Ordered today at the original price.
Op put the price in the title and the @ which store