Which 1TB SSD for secondary gaming drive...

Gimpymoo · 19 Apr 2020 at 16:58

Budget around £100.

Samsung QVO 1TB
Crucial MX500 1TB

I am leaning towards the MX500.

bremen1874 · 19 Apr 2020 at 17:12

So would I.

Alex h · 19 Apr 2020 at 23:33

Gimpymoo said:
Budget around £100.

Samsung QVO 1TB
Crucial MX500 1TB

I am leaning towards the MX500.

I'd go for mx500 1tb out of them 2 drives

Gimpymoo · 20 Apr 2020 at 08:17

bremen1874 said:
So would I.

alex h said:
I'd go for mx500 1tb out of them 2 drives

Thanks for the replies.

I did go with the MX500 in the end, I have a few of them in different computers but hard to believe as old as it is, it is still a great drive.

Does the QLC mem offer marginal longevity over TLC or is it that marginal it is not relevant, especially if using as a secondary gaming drive?

Game sizes are just becoming bonkers nowadays though, even a 1TB drive does not allow for much.

Alex h · 20 Apr 2020 at 08:32

Gimpymoo said:
Thanks for the replies.

I did go with the MX500 in the end, I have a few of them in different computers but hard to believe as old as it is, it is still a great drive.

Does the QLC mem offer marginal longevity over TLC or is it that marginal it is not relevant, especially if using as a secondary gaming drive?

Game sizes are just becoming bonkers nowadays though, even a 1TB drive does not allow for much.

No problem mate I had mx drives and they're good drives I just bought a wd blue tb as it was slightly cheaper at the time for game storage as for tlc and qlc not sure mate

PowerPie5000 · 20 Apr 2020 at 13:09

I still have an old Crucial MX200 drive that I bought when the Core i7 4790k first came out... It's had quite a bit of use for around 6 years now and still reports 96% drive life remaining.

heatonpkmassive · 22 Apr 2020 at 09:46

Running 3 x MX500 SSDs, great drives.

Vertigo · 4 May 2020 at 22:00

No love for Sabrent? Was looking at the Rocket Q 2TB for a game drive myself.

(Or were we talking specifically SATA here?)

Peter UK · 4 May 2020 at 22:11

Gimpymoo said:
Does the QLC mem offer marginal longevity over TLC or is it that marginal it is not relevant, especially if using as a secondary gaming drive?

QLC is worse than TLC for longevity, you can tell that from the difference in warranties and write durability. For example the 1TB 860 QVO (QLC) has 3 year warranty with 360TBW (per year), whereas the 1TB 860 EVO which is TLC has 5 years warranty and 600 TWB per year. Doubt you will have any problem at all or notice any difference between QLC and TLC on a game drive though.

Cyber-Mav · 5 May 2020 at 07:20

You sure those tbw figures are per year? Flash endurance is rated as either PE cycles, Drive writes per day or total cumulative tbw.

Peter UK · 5 May 2020 at 08:32

Cyber-Mav said:
You sure those tbw figures are per year? Flash endurance is rated as either PE cycles, Drive writes per day or total cumulative tbw.

Oops yeah, my bad I misread - https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/support/warranty/
Samsung EVO 1TB = 5 years or 600TBW
Samsung QVO 1TB = 3 years or 360TBW

frustin · 5 May 2020 at 09:23

it's nice to have the warrenty, but those TBW figures are hard to reach.

if you tried to write 600TB over 5 years:

600TB or 600,000GB/5(years)*365=328GB per day of writes.

Are you downloading a lot of data and then moving it? or just installing/uninstalling some games/apps?