Any reason not to go for a 4TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD ?

[chaparral]

Guys i really need some more storage and was hoping to buy a 4TB NVMe M.2 but the prices of them is still much more then am willing to spend (They cost around £600 to £1,000 )

So with much regret am now looking at buying a 4TB SSD instead.
The one i been thinking of buying is the 4TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD

What do you guys think of this SSD ? (It going be used for games )

 

[chaparral]

Best value seems to be 2TB MX500, I have a few of them. Often available at ~£150. Any reason why it has to be 4TB in a single volume?

I Hate having lots of smaller drives with my stuff scattered across them
Like at the moment just my steam games alone are scattered across 4 different drives

I really need an 8TB M.2 or SSD but there none for the price am willing to pay, Plus they use the slow QLC or QVO memory

 

[chaparral]

In terms if value definately not cheapaet 4tb m2 i found is £500 but not a samsung.

All the £500 ones i seen are the crappy QLC/QVO ones

The cheapest 4TB m2 with TLC memory i seen is £600
(That £220 more then the 4TB 870 EVO SSD)

 

[chaparral]

The 870 EVO is barely any faster than the 860 EVO. So the older one is worth considering if you can find it at a good price. I use the 860 EVO as a games drive.

The 860 PRO can sometimes be found for around the same price. Again, very little speed difference but this one is MLC and so has twice the endurance (TBW). I have one of these in another system which has a write-heavy workload.

From the places i looked at the new 4TB 870 EVO (£365) is cheaper then the 860 evo i seen

I ordered one of the 4TB 870 EVO earlier today

 

[chaparral]

how big a Over-provisioning did you use for the 4TB ssd, 10% ?

I never touched that so it be whatever the default is..

 

[chaparral]

Ok, thx for your time and reply, cheers

This is what it shows in Samsung Magician..

 

[chaparral]

you happy with the drive then ? thx

Yes very pleased i got all my games on an SSD now

I really wanted a 4TB or 8TB NVMe M.2 but the prices were much higher then i was willing to pay..

 

[chaparral]

Depends if you need that much speed tbh is go wth smaller ssd and big spinner hd.

I will never go back to a slow HD if i can ever help it
I wasted far to many hours waiting for them slow things to transfer files..

 

[chaparral]

Depends on the game really. If it's bit slow loading up but in use it's open world so no load times..I remember video and difference between ssd and HDD for some games was vast some others like two seconds..

It not so much the load times that bother me...

About 2 months ago i wasted something like 5 hours one Saturday just moving files around from one drive to the other