Recommend a 1TB NVMe?

clv101

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I'm planning on using a B550 board, need to decide on the system drive. I'm after a 1TB but I'm not desperate for every last percentage of performance. Looking at benchmarks, there doesn't seem to be much between a good PCIe 3.0 and 4.0. But 4.0 are a lot more expensive.

I'm tempted to buy a decent 3.0 drive like the ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB (<£120), leaving the single 4.0 slot free for a 2nd drive in the future when the prices are a little lower? Make sense?

Which are the best 1TB drives for <£120? The Samsung 970 EVO Plus is too expensive. I'm particularly interested in reliability and warranty. There are 1TB available for under £100 but they do seem to lose quite a bit of performance to the SX8200 Pro.
 
Adata's SM2262EN controller is very good for low queue depth/thread count random loads typical in home use and gaming.

Black-blue coloured Sabrent Rocket would be another bang per buck drive.
(white-blue Rocket Q is QLC Flash drive)
 
clv101 said:
I'm planning on using a B550 board, need to decide on the system drive. I'm after a 1TB but I'm not desperate for every last percentage of performance. Looking at benchmarks, there doesn't seem to be much between a good PCIe 3.0 and 4.0. But 4.0 are a lot more expensive.

I'm tempted to buy a decent 3.0 drive like the ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB (<£120), leaving the single 4.0 slot free for a 2nd drive in the future when the prices are a little lower? Make sense?

Which are the best 1TB drives for <£120? The Samsung 970 EVO Plus is too expensive. I'm particularly interested in reliability and warranty. There are 1TB available for under £100 but they do seem to lose quite a bit of performance to the SX8200 Pro.
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How much room do you need for your C: drive without games?

I have a Samsung Evo M.2 256gb for my C: drive that is more than ample for Windows and all my apps.
I have a cheap 2tb (£150 before the lockdown) for games.

I hate having all my eggs in one basket, if you have to format C: you lose all your games unless you copy them all off.

You could probably get a 256gb NVME M.2 and a 1tb SSD for around £120.

I've tried installing games on the faster SSD and it doesn't make any difference in most cases. In some cases they load faster off the D: drive as it free's up the C: drive for Windows and drivers/DX etc i guess.
 
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