Good SSD?
Posted by Brycepcs@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 8 comments
What’s a good fast SSD that isn’t too expensive right now. I need atleast 1TB. I will be gaming in 1440p.
Posted by Brycepcs@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 8 comments
What’s a good fast SSD that isn’t too expensive right now. I need atleast 1TB. I will be gaming in 1440p.
DreadFawks@reddit
Unfortunately, everything is expensive currently. That said, the Silicon Power UD90 is a solid drive and the 1TB version can be found for $165.
Brycepcs@reddit (OP)
I found a second hand SSD 980 pro for 160$ It’s sealed and never been used. Do you think that would be a better buy?
BaronB@reddit
The 980 Pro and UD90 perform surprisingly similar in most use cases, which is more a testament to how quickly NVMe drives improved for a while vs a knock against the 980 Pro. But the 980 Pro is the better drive and about that's about the same price.
DreadFawks@reddit
Yeah, from what I've seen, by the time you hit PCIe 4.0 speeds, there's not much of a noticeable difference between the entry level and high end drives for the average user.
BaronB@reddit
With early PCIe 4.0 SSDs, the budget options just barely got beyond PCIe 3.0 speeds peak, and quickly fell off a cliff in write speeds due to the abysmally slow TLC and QLC NAND of that era. By the release of the UD90 2 years after the 980 Pro, yeah, it really didn't matter that much.
For a long time Intel 660p, a budget QLC PCie 3.0 SSD, would rank in the top 10 for app load times which is what most users cared about. Even the fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs haven't really improved on that. Most reviewers just retired that benchmark... because it's been flat for nearly a decade now.
https://tpucdn.com/review/crucial-t710-2-tb/images/game-load-time.png
t90fan@reddit
be careful these had a bug in early versions where they would literally destroy themselves
DreadFawks@reddit
It's a better SSD spec wise but I would be make VERY certain it's actually new and unused and immediately make sure the firmware is updated. The original firmware on those drives had an issue that degraded the drives.
FrequentWay@reddit
You need a SSD with DRAM cache ideally PCIE 4 or PCIE 5.0 based on your motherboard.
Cruical SSDs are emerging as a good price due to their potential lack of future warranty support from Micron. Due to Micron shutting down their inhouse RAM and SSD divisions.
Other choices are via diskprices.com
Where they do easily find stuff via scraping Amazon for potential best cost/GB ratios.