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Cheap 2 TB NVMe buying advice (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/buildapc

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not really "build" a PC, more "upgrade" but I guess people here might know relevant stuff.

anyhow, I'd like to upgrade storage and get a 2 TB drive. in the $100-region I have these models available:

ADATA Legend 710 ALEG-710-2TCS
ADATA Legend 800 ALEG-800-2000GCS
Crucial P3 CT2000P3SSD8
KINGSTON SNV2S/2000G
KINGSTON SNV3S/2000G
Lexar LNM620 LNM620X002T-RNNNG
Seagate BarraCuda Q5 ZP2000CV3A001
Seagate BarraCuda ZP2000CV3A002

I imagine they're all bottom of the barrel type of deal, no DRAM cache, QLC, etc., but this would be my third drive of such variety (500 GB and 1 TB previous) and I had no issues daily driving 'em, linux with btrfs with HMB support.

so, before I start researching them all one-by-one, does one of these stand out as way better? the target hardware is AMD Ryzen 5 5600 on a B450 board. thanks!

edit: so, I got the data for the models from here and here's an image of the result (can I post tables in markdown?)

just as I though, no DRAM on either of those.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

I run a repair shop, we use Crucial/Micron, Kingston, and Samsung. More Crucial/Micron than anything else.

We pull a disproportionate amount of failed ADATA drives. Lexar and Seagate don’t have enough of a market share for me to have a sense of their reliability.

[–] cm0002 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Id probably do the Crucial, ADATA is such a hit or miss you could get something that'll truck along for 15 years or it'll die <6 months lmao

The rest are alright, I still have some PTSD from Seagate, but they've been better lately....so far

[–] Valmond 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I was shopping around for a 2TB ssd not long ago and the top two contenders were samsung and crucial.

I did go with samsung because I wanted like the top of the line (if all goes well I'll have this ssd for a very long time) and it won by a very small margin because it's a tiny bit faster that's all. Both seemed the most robust ones out there with most write capacity, so as you are not looking for a samsung, go crucial!

[–] thekerker 0 points 6 hours ago

Is $100 your max? If you can go a little higher you can get a great Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB for $169 that will be a better option than most of the SSDs you listed.