M.2 SSD taking in to account latest prices?

ElBurge

ElBurge

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I have an old seagate barracuda which is sandwiched behind my mobo tray, against a glass side panel. Its about 8 years old and used as a storage drive with all windows storage folders pointed there.

My daily driver is a 256gb Samsung 850 Evo SATA SSD with a 256gb Crucial MX300 m.2 Sata drive as my games drive.

I figure its time to get rid of the barracude HDD, i have a spare NVME slot and was weighing up what 500gb drive to use for storage. - or i may port my OS to it as the others are SATA.

So i have seen all the benchmarks and appreciate the differences in speed which dont translate to the real world for general use and gaming - so if we factor in the actual buy price right now - what is the best bang for buck vs performance drive to get? I get the Crucial P1 had a bad ride of it - but the price seems to have fallen so does this make it a new proposition?

Crucial p1 @ £80
Intel 660p @ £100
Samsung 970 evo @ £115
 
I got the Intel on offer just before Xmas for £80 and it's fine (replaced a 128Gb drive), I would put the OS on the NVMe drive for blindingly quick boot times but that is your choice.
 
Definitely get a NVME drive, transfer the OS onto there and use the older SSD's for storage.

How big if the hdd? and how big are the current ssd's you have
 
970EVO is a great drive, you won't need anything else. My 250GB 970EVO is faster than my old 512GB 950 PRO. The 970 doesn't overheat all the time like the 950, too.

The Crucial and Intel are in a totally different league to the Samsung. Like comparing a scooter to a superbike.
 
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