Am Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 01:02:31PM -0700 schrieb eric: > When I click on the link, Amazon offers similar products of 1 TB NVMe M.2 > drives for a few dollars more with the links provided below. One is $14 more > and the other is $5 more. I can not comment on how good they are as I don't > have any experience with these types of drives. > > > https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-2280-Internal-SNV2S-1000G/dp/B0BBWH1R8H > > > https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Power-NVMe-Gen3x4-SP001TBP34A60M28/dp/B07ZGJVTZK
I admit I am a tech snob: While I don’t buy the most powerful stuff, I wouldn’t want the low-end leftovers either. I tend to choose a good middle-way between budget and quality. Quality not only means that it reaches certain speeds and IOPS, but that it has a good amount of warranty, both in years and in write volume. For example, the middle-tier SSDs have five years of warranty (at least here on ye Olde Continent). So just going by the price is something I would only do if money is truly tight and the item is needed urgently. Raw speed is not everything, and you never know what you might use the SSD for at a later date. Therefore, I don’t recommend relying on just the price and on Amazon descriptions. Amazon is the Wild West of tech resale; descriptions are unreliable, inaccurate, out-of-date. I always prefer a price/product comparison site which offers filtering for all kinds of technical properties, or actual tech reviews (and not just articles that repeat what’s on the package). In my PC hardware forum at computerbase.de, some of the most-often recommended budget NVMes these days are the Kioxia Exceria and the Lexar NM790 series. They offer good performance, TLC flash and a warranty of 5 years and good TBW values. The Crucial E100 and Kingston NV2 for comparison only have 3 years and low TBWs. According to this two years old computerbase review, the NV2 *may* have good part, but may not just as well. It’s one of those component lottery series, for both the controller and the NAND flash: https://www.computerbase.de/artikel/storage/kingston-nv2-ssd-test.82579/ (put it into google translate, if you’re interested to read it) My above argumentation is what I mean by being a tech snob. It should work fine in a USB enclosure with light loads, but I find it too low-end as a system drive just to save a few bucks. In April 2022 I bought a Samsung Evo 970 Plus a system drive. It’s not high-end by any means (and it wasn’t back when I bought it), but good middle-class. It’s only PCIe 3.0, but I wouldn’t notice a difference between 3.0 and 4.0 anyways. I wouldn’t even between SATA and slow PCIe. -- Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. Give me your passport, and I tell you who you are.
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