[Ginger Blog] NVMe SSD?
Added 2019-11-03 10:58:54 +0000 UTCHey, everybody!
Last night I discovered strange lags in the work of my SSD. The check showed that my SSD had run out of resources. This means that it is no longer safe to store important data, such as PSDs. Working with HDDs after an SSD is not desirable.
While I was using an SSD-sata disk, the world has taken a few steps forward in working with SSDs. When I was choosing an SSD before all I needed to know was the manufacturer's company, now there are a lot of obscure signs.
The only thing that I have clearly understood is that I have an NVMe slot on my motherboard and it is cooler than sata.
If here there is someone who understands these NVMe SSDs, please give me advice! I need it to be at least 900Gb, fast and reliable. It is desirable that its price does not exceed $200.
Comments
Some technical details about SSDs that are nice to know about! There's 4 types currently: SLC (1bit), MLC (2 bit*), TLC (3 bit) and QLC (4 bit) *MLC is techincally 'multi-level-cell' but it's often used to mean 2 bit cells. They have 1x, 2x, 3x and 4x the raw capacity, but have 1x, 1/2x, 1/4x and 1/12x the endurance. Typically, endurance is about 2400x for SLC, 1200x for MLC, 600x for TLC and 200x for QLC. That's how many 'drive writes' it's guaranteed to last. In other words, a 512GB TLC drive will have an endurance of about 300TB, while a 512GB QLC drive will only have about 100TB endurance. As for spesific drives, the samsung 970 EVO series is hard to beat. Some of the best in class performance for an acceptable price, and the 1TB model is just under $200. That's the drive I'd go for myself if I were to buy today.
Zragon
2019-11-04 20:28:04 +0000 UTCI second this. If your current setup does not use a ton of storage space, nvmes are great performance. But if you have a lot of projects taking up room, larger SATA SSDs are the best performance per dollar.
waz890
2019-11-03 16:23:27 +0000 UTCI would put a recommendation on samsung since their nvme drives have a good track record for reliability.
waz890
2019-11-03 16:18:56 +0000 UTCAll those recommendations above is good but here’s another thought. yes NVMe ssds are fast very fast compared to SATA but you rarely use the speed that they provide unless you work in specific area that demands it. If you just want something reasonably fast I would go with something like a 2TB SATA ssd it has more storage and still pretty fast performance also anything from Samsung is good overall so I would go for that
BewBew
2019-11-03 15:39:14 +0000 UTCThis is almost exactly what you'd want. $170 you can get it at many stores like Newegg, Amazon... SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2 2280 1TB PCIe Gen3. X4, NVMe 1.3 64L V-NAND 3-bit MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V7E1T0BW https://m.newegg.com/product/N82E16820147691?ignorebbr=1&m_ver=1 There are other cheaper options that shouldn't matter that much to you specifically given your known work load. How big and how long have you owned your current drive though? If you are doing a lot of read/write a larger and slower drive might be better for you so you don't run into this problem as often
Bulk
2019-11-03 15:34:18 +0000 UTCits pretty important that theyre NOT M.2 SATA SSDs that only use the formfactor but indeed are NVMes with the far higher speed and lower latency.
Phoenix0310
2019-11-03 12:17:18 +0000 UTCThe main thing with any ssd nvme or not is to make sure you are getting one with a ddr cache otherwise it will be slow as hell. I personally recommend the samsung drive 970 evo for under 200 for 1tb.
Boots
2019-11-03 12:14:53 +0000 UTCThose are below 200$ on Amazon.com - but no clue where you'd buy
Telv
2019-11-03 11:30:06 +0000 UTCTo utilize the NVMe slot you would want a SSD in the 3,400 Mb/s speed range. Which brand to get depends on what you can cheaply get and which brands you trust/prefer. Some examples; - Samsung 970 EVO - Western Digital Black "Gaming" - CORSAIR FORCE Series
Telv
2019-11-03 11:29:09 +0000 UTCTiger direct has a few 1 tera bite ssd with nvme high performance port options in stock, in your budget range.
carl kenny
2019-11-03 11:24:32 +0000 UTCHope this helps.
carl kenny
2019-11-03 11:23:23 +0000 UTC
