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hornetstinger

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My 1TB WD Black is getting a bit small for games, speed isn't too bad as with 24GB it caches fair bit into RAM.

It's a older Intel X58 board so latest and fastest SSD isn't required as it's SATA 2 only. What's a good affordable large capacity SSD? If I can get a 3TB SSD for decent price?
 
I don't think there's 3tb SSDs. Goes 1 to 2 then to 4 GB.
New, and you're looking at the usual suspects: WD blue, crucial Mx 500, Sammy 860 evo. Or the Sammy 870 qvo if you'd be happy with less durable QLC nand.
 
that's crucial's el-cheapo range...does not have a 4tb capacity (max 2tb)
nand endurance/TBW is also comparatively worse on the bx500 than the mx500
the bx500 1tb and 2tb versions use qlc nand
 
Performance is better with the more expensive one. Will it matter on SATA 2 board though?

It has SATA 3 controller but I think it's quite poor Marvell chipset? Lacks trim on the data 3 controller if I recall
 
IIRC the BX is a cacheless/DRAMless drive.

Depending on how it'll be used, that's more of an issue than SATA2 Vs SATA3.

For that generation, it was often better to stick with the Intel SATA2 rather than the 'better' third-party SATA3 option.
 
hornetstinger said:
Performance is better with the more expensive one. Will it matter on SATA 2 board though?

It has SATA 3 controller but I think it's quite poor Marvell chipset? Lacks trim on the data 3 controller if I recall
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SATA 2 bottlenecks to 300 MB/s in ideal case.
What that Marvell controller propably isn't already being extra chip instead integrated into chipset port.

But what's the precise motherboard model?
If you have free PCIe slots it would be always possible to use NVMe (/PCIe) SSD with adapter as storage drive.
That would also increase future use value of the drive for new PC builts.
(DirectStorage won't even support SATA SSDs)
 
Assuming you have graphics card in PCIEX16_1 you could use PCIEX8_2 (uses lanes from PCIEX16_2) freely with this kind adapter.
Total: £22.69 (includes shipping: £8.70)​
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With PCIe v2's that would give 2 GB/s bandwidth.
There are also adapters for PCIe x1 slots, which would give 0.5 GB/s bandwidth.

Standard NVMe SSDs aren't really any more expensive than SATA SSDs.
WD Blue SN550 2TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS200T2B0C)= £176.99
 
Unless blocked by CPU cooler that sound card could be moved to x1 slots.
Pricing of 2.5" SATA SSDs just isn't favourable considering their lot lower capability cap.


NVMe isn't connection, but software interface protocol and NVMe drives use PCIe for communications and that adapter is just simple completely passive mechanical adapter.
And because of PCIe having been designed as scalable connection any over 1x device can use also lower amount of lanes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJweek6n8Z0

In case of old PC BIOS just might not support booting from NVMe if wanting drive for OS.
(SATA drives use AHCI protocol instead of NVMe)
 
hornetstinger said:
Gigabyte x58a udr3r
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I had an x58 board and stuck with the sata 2\Intel controller.

The Marvell controller was terrible and gave me issues (crashes, bsod, etc) so stuck with the Inel.

Using Intel with an Samsung 840 i was getting 250mb read/write but moved away from this system a few years ago now and got an nvme drive
 
ED209 said:
I had an x58 board and stuck with the sata 2\Intel controller.

The Marvell controller was terrible and gave me issues (crashes, bsod, etc) so stuck with the Inel.

Using Intel with an Samsung 840 i was getting 250mb read/write but moved away from this system a few years ago now and got an nvme drive
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I'll try using crystalmark and see what I get
 
hornetstinger said:
I'll try using crystalmark and see what I get
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I didnt loose too much more speed when using the Intel controller.

Was handy as when moving to a new mobo (Z390\I7 9700K 2 years ago) I got the full speeds.

Now moved to a Samsung 970 Evo Plus for more storage as I used to use 2 x 256GB SSDs (OS on 1 and Games stored on another)
 
2TB Crucial SSD 2.5" is ok price Has anyone used PCI-E adapter with X58 wouldn't want to buy it and doesn't see it in windows

Not great speed :-( also stock windows chipset/sata drivers as no dedicated new Intel release. I've got same SSD in SATA 3 machine I'll see how that fairs, again stock windows chipset/sata, same MX500 500GB SSD 2.5"


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