WD Blue SN550 best poor man's 1TB NVME?

MegaPinches · 6 Aug 2020 at 13:11

£99, anything better?

This or thinking about waiting for Evo 980 1TB but its going to cost a fortune right.

I heard Samsungs PCIE 4 NVME will use new tech that's better than current PCIE4 drives?

scubes · 7 Aug 2020 at 14:28

All depends and on the read and write speeds 1tb for 99 is really good .

Gray2233 · 7 Aug 2020 at 14:31

You wont do much better than the SN550 for £99.

Frankly, even taking speeds into account if you're just gaming there will be no perceivable difference between the SN550 and an expensive Gen 4 drive, let alone an over hyped brand like Samsung. There's very, very few scenarios where an end user will need Gen 4 speeds for anything they do.

EsaT · 7 Aug 2020 at 21:44

For lower budget Kingston A2000 and WD Blue SN550 are the top choises.
If you want above basic drive, then SM2262EN drives like Adata SX8200 Pro/Gammix S11, or Phison E12 based drives like Corsair MP510/PNY CS3030/TeamGroup MP34 are good ones from commonly available ones. Kioxia (/Toshiba) RD500 and Seagate 510 are other sense making drives.
Non-Q Sabrent Rocket is also good, though not on sale in many places

bakes0310 · 15 Aug 2020 at 10:58

Not to derail thread but im looking at the 2tb version for a gaming build, i dont need the fastest drive, i just want to stick windows 10 on it along with games. Reliability is more inportant, ive always gone with samsung ssd's i used to have WD raptor HDDs back in the day and they were very good.

Gray2233 · 15 Aug 2020 at 11:30

bakes0310 said:
Not to derail thread but im looking at the 2tb version for a gaming build, i dont need the fastest drive, i just want to stick windows 10 on it along with games. Reliability is more inportant, ive always gone with samsung ssd's i used to have WD raptor HDDs back in the day and they were very good.

The SN550 is a great option for what you're looking at.

I would recommend partitioning off a small part of the drive for your Windows 10 installation, that way if you need to reinstall the O/S or something down the line the rest of your data wont be effected.

bakes0310 · 15 Aug 2020 at 13:50

Gray2233 said:
The SN550 is a great option for what you're looking at.

I would recommend partitioning off a small part of the drive for your Windows 10 installation, that way if you need to reinstall the O/S or something down the line the rest of your data wont be effected.

Thanks, what size should I partition just for the operating system?

bin20 · 5 Sep 2020 at 21:47

Gray2233 said:
You wont do much better than the SN550 for £99.

Frankly, even taking speeds into account if you're just gaming there will be no perceivable difference between the SN550 and an expensive Gen 4 drive, let alone an over hyped brand like Samsung. There's very, very few scenarios where an end user will need Gen 4 speeds for anything they do.

Well said

TonTom · 5 Sep 2020 at 23:40

You can pick up a Sabrent Rocket for under £100

uscool · 6 Sep 2020 at 12:19

wonder what the speed difference will be between gen 3 and gen 4 ssds with RTX IO

I wanna buy one of the 1tb ssd gen 3 price is pretty good now but not knowing RTX IO difference

pp111 · 6 Sep 2020 at 14:22

bakes0310 said:
Thanks, what size should I partition just for the operating system?

120GB will do most people just fine. Gaming folders should be placed on other drives. I have three gaming PC's and none of them use more than 90GB for C:

bakes0310 · 6 Sep 2020 at 14:56

Thanks, that gives me tonnes of storage still.

MassiveJim · 6 Sep 2020 at 16:01

Patriot burst is my go to budget SSD

Guest2 · 7 Sep 2020 at 07:24

2tb Sabrent rocket NVMe can be had for £180. Why not spend the £80 for a much faster driver for double the capacity.
You WILL eventually need it

IvanDobskey · 7 Sep 2020 at 10:42

I think these are probably the best gen3 1tb drives for around the £100 mark. Mulling over whether to pick one up to replace my sata 500gb drive.