Lexar NVMEs

Been giving these some more consideration over the last few days... I'm the market for a Gen4 drive following a recent motherboard swap....
Currently have a 1TB Corsair MP510 - Gen3 TLC, with DRAM cache I think, which has been great in the few years I've had it, but now want to swap to something bigger as games are growing constantly.

I had been looking at a 2TB drive for around £150 max budget, contenders being: Crucial T500, Seagate FireCuda 530, Corsair MP600 Pro NH or possibly stretch to a WD 850X or Sammy 990 Pro

Plan would be to migrate over my boot partition (~200GB) then expand it out a bit, before then cloning my games partition to fill the rest.
I'm currently booting in legacy mode so I think it's likely I'd need to convert it to GPT first in order to create a >3TB partition, which seems pretty safe (have already cloned the whole 1TB drive to a SATA SSD as a backup!)

But the NM790 4TB is only a smidge over £200, so was wondering if that's up to snuff for both OS and games?
Alternatively I could get a better spec 2TB for now and then possibly add another down the line

TIA!
 
Why not keep mp510 1tb as a dedicated boot drive. Get the new 2 or 4 tb drive only for games?

I had a change of priorities and did not require a new ssd anymore but I have been keeping a lookout for the NM790 and the 990 pro.
 
I bought 3 of the 4tb 790's back when they were available on the river place for £180 a pop to replace the last of my mechanical drives in my main computer.

So far they have been great drives and the reviews seem to back up that it almost all IRL scenarios that they perform up there with the more expensive offerings like the Samsung 990 and the WD SN850X.

Think its worth snapping them up soon if you are in the market for some fast and fairly spacious storage as the suggestion is that prices for solid state drives are going to continue their upward trend into 2024....
 
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