All time low
Cheap disposable Gen 4 drive
Good for gaming storage, ghetto PS5 setups (add cheap heat sink) and storing any data that is safe to lose you have backed up elsewhere
SNV2S/2000G
Controller: Variable
Memory: Variable
DRAM Cache: None
Sequential Read: 3500 MB/s
Sequential Write: 2800 MB/s
Random Read: N/A
Random Write: N/A
Endurance (TBW): 640 TB
Warranty: 3 Years
to be fair, this isn't a samsung; it's considerably worse.
Fair enough - good choice by me then :-)
Difference between this Kingston Model, and say this Silicon Power one?
In my experience unless you are getting a somewhat high-end SSD, SSD is SSD and there is a lot of randomness between drive performance.
Kingston is faster but you won't really notice the difference in most scenarios. Kingston is also Gen4 so you can use it as a budget PS5 drive
I've read that Silicon Power NVME SSDs are unreliable.
Does anyone have experience with them??
Depends on the model. My last SSD which went dead completely is Kingston. I also had Samsung SSD which died. Does that mean both Kingston and Samsung SSDs are unreliable?
Netsurfer, do you work within the SSD space?
I had a 1tb SP drive fail on me.
disposable?
As in, due to it being a cost effective series, it has 3 years warranty, QLC vs TLC lottery. So, OP wants to lower your expectation.
This sufficient enough for the new homeserver running plex?
You're better off with a hdd for storage
I purchased one of those mini thinkcentre PC's. Came without SSD. I have 2 x 4TB usb HDD, unsure if that can do the job. But I believe I need an SSD to install OS on. All new to me.
Boot os cant be used for storage i believe. You only need something small
Assuming youre setting up a truenas server
Make sure it takes an m.2 drive and not a normal sata one
@Mukhlou: Yeah nice! Well I think this would be fine. If you're using windows you can use the boot drive for storage, but you'll probably want to pool drives together with something like stablebit drive pool or drive bender so it all reads as a single drive, which I'm not sure you could do with a partition of the boot disc.
But the other benefit of having larger storage here would be more space for things like enabling video thumbnails etc.
You could definitely get away with smaller OS storage though and save some money. The price of 10-20TB hard drives, particularly international imports from Amazon, are coming right down, and it could be worth just saving the money and putting it towards a large drive when a deal comes up.
Also, I'm sure you're on it but make sure you look into radarr, sonarr, etc too!
@snoopydoop: Thanks for the advice. I'll definitely read into pooling drives. I jumped on the 970 evo plus ($79) 1tb for boot. For time being I have 2x 4TB usb ssd drives. That should be a good starting point.
As for radarr and sonarr, im on it ;)
@Mukhlou: Nice choice!
The other thing you could look into is something like Unraid. Just better for scale. I've been running on Windows for 4 or 5 years but wanting to switch now, but I'm finding it a pain in the ass switching now. Windows has been fine til now though.
Started with 1x 8TB external, now up to 60TB haha. Creeps fast!
With 8TB of storage I'd recommend dialling in your sonarr/radarr profiles carefully to balance storage space and quality. For example maybe animated shows you're okay with 720p, your favourite movies Bluray 1080p, or regular movies 1080p streaming quality.
Also budget XBSX expansion with a CFExpress Adapter?
Nope, only SSD that works 100% on XBSX&S is the WD CH SN530. No other M2 SSD works with the adapter.
I have an adapter with the CH SN530 and it works perfectly.
Cheers. I couldn't find much recent info.
Where did you get the ssd / adapter from?
You also need to budget whatever amount of Micro$oft shares you need to buy to become head of XBox and lift that annoying CFExpress SSDs for Series S|X must be whitelisted rubbish.
Brand Kingston
Model NV2 SNV2S
Controller PS5021-E21 PS5021-E21 PS5021-E21 SM2267XTV SM2267XTV SM2267XTV SM2267XTV SM2267XTV SM2269XT?
Buffer Cache DRAM-less, HMB DRAM-less, HMB DRAM-less, HMB DRAM-less, HMB DRAM-less, HMB DRAM-less, HMB DRAM-less, HMB DRAM-less, HMB DRAM-less, HMB DRAM-less, HMB
NAND KIOXIA KIOXIA SanDisk KIOXIA KIOXIA SanDisk Intel YMTC Micron
112L TLC 112L TLC 112L TLC 112L TLC 112L TLC 112L TLC 144L QLC 128L TLC 176L QLC
512Gbit, 2-Plane 1Tbit, 2-Plane 512Gbit, 2-Plane 512Gbit, 2-Plane 1Tbit, 2-Plane 512Gbit, 2-Plane 1Tbit, 4-Plane 512Gbit, 4-Plane 1Tbit, 4-Plane
Firmware ELFK0S.4/6 ELFK1N.1 ELFKAN.2 SBI03102 (250GB) SBK00104 SBJ01101 (250GB) SBM02103 CRTP1311
SBI02102 (500GB/1TB) SBJ00101/3 (500GB/1TB)
Interface PCIe Gen4 x4 PCIe Gen4 x4 PCIe Gen4 x4 PCIe Gen4 x4 PCIe Gen4 x4 PCIe Gen4 x4 PCIe Gen4 x4 PCIe Gen4 x4 PCIe Gen4 x4 PCIe Gen4 x4
M.2 M-key M.2 M-key M.2 M-key M.2 M-key M.2 M-key M.2 M-key M.2 M-key M.2 M-key M.2 M-key M.2 M-key
Protocol NVMe 1.4 NVMe 1.4 NVMe 1.4 NVMe 1.4 NVMe 1.4 NVMe 1.4 NVMe 1.4 NVMe 1.4 NVMe 1.4 NVMe 1.4
Seq.R. (max) MB/s 3500 3500 3500 3500 3500 3500 3500 3500
Seq.W. (max) MB/s 2100 2800 2100 2100 2800 2100 2800 2100
Form Factor 2280 2280 2280 2280 2280 2280 2280 2280 2280 2280
Status MP MP MP MP MP MP MP MP
"Total Bytes Written – TBW –
250GB 80 – 80 80 – 80 – – – –
500GB 160 – 160 160 – 160 – – 160 –
1TB 320 320 320 320 320 320 320 – 320 –
2TB – 640 – – 640 – 640 – – –
4TB – 1,280 – – – – – – – –
So this would work in a ps5 with a aliexpress special heatsink?
All I want is an SSD for my PS5 and I never know which one to get or what heatsink >.>
Sony recommends a heatsink.
Either buy one with it already on or buy it separate and add it on.
Any heatsink should be ok.
I'd be more concerned with the speed of the SSD, this gets no where near the recommended 5500 MB/s
Thanks man. I thought some heatsinks didn't fit? Not sure where I read that, this SSD world is quite complicated.
@zarbicore: I think you're better off figuring out 3 or 4 SSDs that definitely fit and work in the PS5 and then working back to bargains rather than trying to match the bargain to the usage.
If you chase the bargains, you'll get your brain all racked up - sometimes it is better to spend a bit more and not think about it so hard - you won't be thinking about how much you spent in a few months but you'll be happy with all that extra storage.
At that end, some SSDs are surefire, hassle free, no nonsense like the Samsung 980 Pro.
@zarbicore: Would definitely recommend the Samsung 980 pro for your PS5.
Make sure you do yourself a service and get the 2Tb version.
As you know, space just disappears quick. Got the new Star Wars game, It took 10% of my 2Tb drive, more actually since the drives aren't really 2 Tb, that's around 200gb just for the game.
@ultramag69: Definitely want 2TB. I had to delete Cyberpunk for Jedi Survivor, I haven't played Cyberpunk for ages but it sucked I had to do that.
Sub $100 2TB when
when Gen 5 hit the market
Write speed slows down to 600mb/s for me when the storage is at 76% full
Back to normal when storage is at 70% full…
Read speed is as advertised
It's common for SSDs to stop using dynamic SLC cache for writes when the SSD reaches ~80%. The reason is the effort to still offer a very small amount of SLC, followed soon by forced fold back (re-write the data in TLC or QLC mode) is just not worth the trouble (and not good for the cells).
oh poop - just ordered a 1TB Samsung for $99 from mwave.