Advice on upgrading SSD

[James Pacey]

Hi all,

Would appreciate some suggestions about SSD upgrade as slightly out of the loop about what I can get.

I am looking to upgrade my hard drive. I currently have a 500GB Samsung 970 EVO PLUS M.2 and am really looking for bigger - games loading from my backup hard drives seem to take an age in compairison! I have two 2TB 7200 RPM hard drives so wouldn't be averse to swopping one of those out for a faster SSD.

Would really appreciate your advice: not entirely sure what else my motherboard can support! I have a Asus ROG STRIX Z390-E GAMING Motherboard.

With thanks and best wishes,

James

 

[James Pacey]

Thanks very much, that's really helpful.

There seems to be a far bit of price difference between the various 2TB NVMe SSD's out there. In layman's terms, what is the actual difference?

With thanks.

 

[James Pacey]

Mainly speed. as mickylinn says, but there some quality differences as well. There are currently two generations of drive available, PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 (also called Gen 3 and Gen 4). Your mobo only supports 3.0 so you can ignore the more expensive 4.0 although some are now down to 3.0 costs. There are some cheaper drives that use QVO technology and this has lower life-expectancy and resilience than the usual TLC (?) drives. You have to hope that the description tells you whether it's QVO or not. Then you have to decide whether you want a 'gaming' drive or not. A standard drive is something like the WD Blue SN570

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds200t3b0c-hd-58d-wd.html

and a more gaming-oriented drive would be the WD Black SN770

WD Black SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T3X0E)

Order WD Black SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T3X0E) now online and benefit from fast delivery.

www.overclockers.co.uk

Thank you.

What would the difference between a gaming oriented version be compared to a non gaming one?

James