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Looking for recommendations for decent M.2 SSD drives as I've decided to add one to my system.

Ideally, looking at a 1TB one, minimum.

I almost grabbed a Kingston one for 50 quid, but suddenly felt apprehensive as I wondered if I'd heard bad things about them before. A quick google brought up a damning Tomshardware review, and subsequently brought me here for some advice from the Gamer's Gurus.

Any help is much appreciated.

Samsung are a safe bet, reliable and decent bang for buck (or at least they were when I got my 970 EVO Plus 1TB a couple of years ago). I'm not sure what the rest of the SSD market is like now, though.

Not the 990s. People are having a lot of problems with them.

A year ago I swapped my boot drive for a Crucial P5+ which was excellent bang for the buck and have had zero problems. In general as long as it has dram and is a known brand seems like you won’t go to far wrong these days. Just not the Samsung 990 :p

Is it worth mentioning that NVMe are the fast ones, and not all M.2 drives are NVMe?

For NVME Western Digital do some really good ones with the Blue variants being good budget versions and Black variants more performance related and generally considered one of the best around right now in terms of price to performance. Sabrent are also very good as are Samsung.

Drarok wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 13, 2023 9:12 am

Is it worth mentioning that NVMe are the fast ones, and not all M.2 drives are NVMe?

Absolutely as I wouldn't have looked at that. Cheers.

I went for a Western Digital WD_BLACK 1TB SN770 M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 NVMe in the end - £69.

Thanks everyone.

Catchy name!

Nice.

That's what I put in my PS5 to expand the storage. The loading times from it are very quick.

When I upgrade my PC next year I'll probably stick three of those in it and phase out my SSDs that I currently use.

Mantis wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 19, 2023 7:56 pm

When I upgrade my PC next year I'll probably stick three of those in it and phase out my SSDs that I currently use.

That's my plan too, just specced and paid for a new Chillblast rig and waiting on build and delivery.

Amazon have WD PCIE M2 drives up to 50% off on sale presently btw...

Just have to hope yours doesn't die, because their RMA systems got megahacked and are dead.


https://support-en.wd.com/app/systemmaintenance

I was about to recommend Sabrent NVMe drives, but mine suddenly borked two weeks ago. With a rated write use of 720TB, it managed 24TB in the end.

Actually can anyone suggest a program that can diagnose what the bloody hell is wrong with my deadish NVMe? It fails to format, just stopping at 2% progress, yet all programs report the drive as healthy. Sometimes it just up and vanishes from Windows Explorer.