Looking for a 1TB drive good balance of budget vs performance

Got my Rocket 1TB for £93

but SX8200 Pro 1TB can be had for £88 atm

Sorry above drives are all NVMe not sure if that’s what you looking for.
 
pc-guy said:
Blue. White is QLC - slow ones

gold is pcie4. A bit expensive and not much performance bump.
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I was looking at the QLC for a game drive in a B450 Tomahawk board. I was concerned about the write hole and the lower lifespan, but in normal terms you could likely write 25gb everyday for the next 2 decades and you would still not exceed it.

Guru3d did quite an in depth review and they were surprised at the performance and especially the lack of running into any kind of write hole..

Saying that, the blue one is only marginally more expensive, so it makes sense to just go for that one!
 
I personally avoid QLC because I do transfer fairly large files between my drives and I don’t want it to saturate the cache.
And the idea of dynamic cache bugs me.

saying that for game drive, aren’t those files fairly large also. Anyways once it’s on I suppose not much will be changing so no issues.
 
pc-guy said:
I personally avoid QLC because I do transfer fairly large files between my drives and I don’t want it to saturate the cache.
And the idea of dynamic cache bugs me.

saying that for game drive, aren’t those files fairly large also. Anyways once it’s on I suppose not much will be changing so no issues.
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For the small percentage increase in price I'll rather just avoid the QLC as well.. :)
 
Thanks for the replies. Somewhere around £80-90 would be fine.

Is NVMe the thing to have? My board has an m2 port is that what's needed? Sorry excuse my ignorance on the matter :)
 
ya NVMe is the way to go cos it is loads faster than SATA SSD.

your board has 2 M.2 - top most gives you PCIe3x4 speed. the lower one only gives PCIe3x2 (half speed) and by putting a M.2 in that slot you cannot use the bottom most PCIe3x16 slot as they are shared bandwidth.

you can however hook as many SATA SSD as you want as the SATA ports are not linked to the PCIe lanes for M.2 and PCIe slots
 
Just got another 2tb blue Sabrent for under £200 from the jungle, dropped from £250.
I'm weak willed after a can of beer so it had to be done:D
 
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