MSI Spatium 450 vs Spatium M461

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Can someone tell me which is best? The M461 is only a couple of quid more than the 450. I assume the 461 is better,but i can't search properly atm,because i broke my ribs 3 nights ago,and my focus is limited to a few minutes at best before i have to lie down to relax my rib cage (it's very very painful). Sorry for the medical description.
 
I'm only looking at 500gb to 1tb drives. From what i've seen,the 1tb 450 is 600tbw is that good? Why would the m461 have less tbw despite being a higher model number?
 
Tetras said:
In Newmaxx's spreadsheet he says the M461 may use QLC, so the reason manufacturers give it a lower TBW rating is to allow them room to downgrade the quality of the flash depending on market conditions.

The higher model has a newer controller which is (on paper) faster, so I guess it is a newer model, but is it actually better? Hmm. I'd prefer higher quality flash than a faster controller.


Yep. It suggests they're using decent TLC because it is the same as Samsung's 980 Pro and WD's SN850X.
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Thank you sir,i really appreciate your help.
 
Hello again,this is what i found out about the Spatium 450 1tb.

The Phison E19T is a brand-new controller that supports TLC NAND without DRAM cache for cost optimizations. The bus interface is PCI-Express 4.0 x4 and supports NVMe 1.4. The chip is fabricated on a 28 nanometer process by TSMC Taiwan. It's a 4-channel design with just one processor core (Arm Cortex R5)

The two flash chips are 176-layer 3D TLC NAND made by Micron.

So as far as i can make out for now,these drives do not have DRAM cache,which i thought was very important for SSD/NVME/M.2 drives.

What's the difference with QLC/TLC and DRAM cache? I have a general idea,but i keep second guessing myself.Searching on the interweb brings up so much useless info is the reason i have to ask here. £54 might be nothing to you guys,but i'm struggling here,i wanna get it right.
 
So if I get a Spatium 500gb for a boot drive,maybe some light emu gaming,with a rating of 300tbw,would you personally buy said drive?
Also thanks for the suggestions I'll have a look at those
 
I'm doing my own head in trying to find a drive that will last a long time. I might just get an up to date HDD and be done with it tbh. I do have a 240gb Kingston 'a4xx' but the reviews on that are mild. I don't game on PC,apart from emus,I love F-Zero GX/AX and Dreamcast stuff for example. Well thank you again for your help,you've helped me a lot. Ima pish off now.
 
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