Best cheap SSD for DIY External Drive?

[Newblesse Obblige]

I planning to make an external drives for our PS4 and for myself. What cheap SSD should I get?

Samsung 860 EVO and Crucial MX500 is always out of stock on my local computer stores so I need an alternative and thoses drive are seem too overkill.

I prefer those SATA 2.5 inch drives but a M.2 SSD is ok too.

[Oswin]

budget?

[RejZoR]

Anything from a reputable maker. They all seem to use Phison controllers anyway and NAND from like 3 makers that exist. I don't think you can really go wrong, especially if it'll be plugged into USB port which will probably be the limiting factor, not the drive itself. Would still look for mention of DRAM cache as DRAM-less SSD's generally have bad reputation. A-DATA, Corsair, WD, Sandisk, you can't go wrong with these imo

[Newblesse Obblige]

Just now, Oswin said:

budget?

idk maybe at $40 to $50? I only want the model as prices are almost the same

[Newblesse Obblige]

4 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Anything from a reputable maker. They all seem to use Phison controllers anyway and NAND from like 3 makers that exist. I don't think you can really go wrong, especially if it'll be plugged into USB port which will probably be the limiting factor, not the drive itself. Would still look for mention of DRAM cache as DRAM-less SSD's generally have bad reputation. A-DATA, Corsair, WD, Sandisk, you can't go wrong with these imo

is WD Green or Blue 3D, Sandisk SSD Plus ok? they are the most common SATA SSD next to 860 EVO. 

[RejZoR]

5 minutes ago, 5GigaaHertz said:

is WD Green or Blue 3D, Sandisk SSD Plus ok? they are the most common SATA SSD next to 860 EVO. 

I'm not 100% sure but I think that Sandisk Plus is DRAMless. And WD Green might be the same.

[Ralf]

37 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Anything from a reputable maker. They all seem to use Phison controllers anyway and NAND from like 3 makers that exist. Would still look for mention of DRAM cache as DRAM-less SSD's generally have bad reputation. A-DATA, Corsair, WD, Sandisk, you can't go wrong with these imo

You can go wrong, like with any other component.

27 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

I'm not 100% sure but I think that Sandisk Plus is DRAMless. And WD Green might be the same.

See? You said Sandisk and OP picket one of the worst SSD's from a reputable brand. Silicon Motion SM2256S(not Phison) and no DRAM.

33 minutes ago, 5GigaaHertz said:

is WD Green or Blue 3D, Sandisk SSD Plus ok? they are the most common SATA SSD next to 860 EVO. 

Green is crap. WD Blue or Adata SU800

[RejZoR]

50 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Anything from a reputable maker. They all seem to use Phison controllers anyway and NAND from like 3 makers that exist. I don't think you can really go wrong, especially if it'll be plugged into USB port which will probably be the limiting factor, not the drive itself. Would still look for mention of DRAM cache as DRAM-less SSD's generally have bad reputation. A-DATA, Corsair, WD, Sandisk, you can't go wrong with these imo

@Ralf

See what? It's you who didn't read what I said. Which seems to be a typical theme on all forums...

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2 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

Everything is out of stock because we see no product catalogue

I can't give you a catalogue because it will take days for them to answer that it will make this thread obsolete in a few days and they almost never update their catalouge online(like it is updated 2 months ago and their website doesn't say if it is in stock so you have to rely on thier social media accounts that they never answer) so I want ya'll to suggest me some alternatives because I'm going to find that model/SKU myself in stores.

Also I'm not buying online and Newegg or Amazon have high shipping fee when delivering it to my country

[Ralf]

1 hour ago, RejZoR said:

@Ralf

See what? It's you who didn't read what I said. Which seems to be a typical theme on all forums...

Ok. But you still said that they all seem to use Phison controllers. So I would like to ask which ones?

[RejZoR]

35 minutes ago, Ralf said:

Ok. But you still said that they all seem to use Phison controllers. So I would like to ask which ones?

He's gonna use it for external drive. It literally doesn't matter. In fact I have doubts DRAM-less drive would make any difference either, but I just avoid them as a precaution unless they are NVMe drive in something like laptop. Those use RAM as cache and it seems to work well. But that's another story...