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|  | | P: | 10/23/2024 01:41 EST |
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If any of you have a gaming PC that does NOT have M.2 drive capabilities, consider entering the model of your current SSD and compare it with others online here:
https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Crucial-MX500-500GB-vs...
While simply the read/write sustained speeds are important, so are queue depths, burst rates, random access and more. The nice thing about this tool is you can clearly compare any two drives seeing a bigger picture of everything put together.
In September I went a little nuts & compared every drive under $150 on Amazon in the tool, and found about 2-3 models that were almost identical in performance that blew away every other model out there.
The speed, brand & price of this particular model has blown me away as it seems to be the best in all 3 categories. The Samsung 870 EVO SATA SSD is a 2.5" drive that can be used in a desktop or laptop.
500GB = $53
1TB = $100
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08QBMD6P4/
As much fun as it might be for me to raid-0 three to five 2015-2019 SSD drives together, a single drive for $50 is so fucking fast that it finally doesn't matter.
The 5year warranty & advertised read 560MB/s & write 530MB/s were not even the best part. It was the drivers & software. There's an option to enable a RAM mixing performance overclocking feature that utilizes your RAM aggressively to make the SSD go WAY faster! This should make your cpu/ram work harder as your system never has to wait for the SSD only. However this does add significant heating to the SSD so good air cooling is required. Went from like 500MB/s to over 8000MB/s after enabling when benchmarking with crystal diskmark. This isn't going to change your fps, but having the OS, pagefile & game running with even faster response times & speeds makes your storage never the bottleneck. I like this in my quest to lower system latencies further. Ram is and always will be so much faster then any storage device.
Obviously if you have an M.2 drive you can find faster/newer/cheaper options. There's also the ability to buy PCI Express to M.2 adapter cards, but then there can be compatibility issues/timings/boot issues not to mention possible PCI Express 16x/8x limitations on older motherboards.
For $50 a single small SSD has been amazing so far as a secondary drive. After I finish writing up my website next month I'll reformat windows onto this as a primary drive. | |
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