good 120gb SSD for a good price?

[HunterL]

im building a budget gaming pc and wanted to get an ssd instead of a hard drive and just a hard drive later, i need a good ssd thats under $80 and is at least 100-120gb

 

ALSO should i get a 2.5in, m.2, pcie?

[itisme911]

6 minutes ago, HunterL said:

 

ALSO should i get a 2.5in, m.2, pcie?

m.2 if you can is the way to go

 

here is one I found recently https://www.neweggbusiness.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9B-20-167-446&ignorebbr=1&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleBiz-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleBiz-PC-_-pla-_-Solid+State+Disk-_-9B-20-167-446&gclid=CjwKCAjw9qfZBRA5EiwAiq0AbVq_FB4ylqWKsFgsgYNYt1ss5_O9BUQ-F936vUaNwTAcTC9jJL1YJRoCDKgQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

EDIT for more

https://www.neweggbusiness.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9B-0D9-0017-00070&ignorebbr=1&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleBiz-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleBiz-PC-_-pla-_-Solid+State+Disk-_-9B-0D9-0017-00070&gclid=CjwKCAjw9qfZBRA5EiwAiq0AbTNncV1XnYwZOdIg25mVAOi09Qlw8O40YyGemSOsW-7Tl4PrV0i3_BoCKYsQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

if you end up with more cash and like amazon/have prime

https://www.amazon.com/Black-500GB-High-Performance-NVMe-WDS500G2X0C/dp/B07BR9FV1C/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=bolivar08f-20&linkId=a9e8fc5b783044b90937026641563ba3

[HunterL]

1 minute ago, itisme911 said:

m.2 if you can is the way to go

 

here is one I found recently https://www.neweggbusiness.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9B-20-167-446&ignorebbr=1&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleBiz-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleBiz-PC-_-pla-_-Solid+State+Disk-_-9B-20-167-446&gclid=CjwKCAjw9qfZBRA5EiwAiq0AbVq_FB4ylqWKsFgsgYNYt1ss5_O9BUQ-F936vUaNwTAcTC9jJL1YJRoCDKgQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

would that m.2 ssd be compatible with this motherboard https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130989&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleKWLess&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleKWLess-_-DSA-_-CategoryPages-_-NA&gclid=CjwKCAjw9qfZBRA5EiwAiq0AbfBisqXc_Fl4gbEZ8y5rWmvMyFAt8Tc17IHaTJpcVKAtr-WU8mWF6xoC_MUQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

[itisme911]

3 minutes ago, HunterL said:

would that m.2 ssd be compatible with this motherboard

almost 100% sure it will

 

 

AND if you need help optimizing build for price/performance i can help

[PorkishPig]

5 minutes ago, HunterL said:

im building a budget gaming pc and wanted to get an ssd instead of a hard drive and just a hard drive later, i need a good ssd thats under $80 and is at least 100-120gb

 

ALSO should i get a 2.5in, m.2, pcie?

I would suggest looking for a used 250-500gb 850 EVO on Craiglist, eBay, or /r/hardwareswap. Your motherboard can support an M.2 SSD, but your budget doesn't quite support it.

[aisle9]

Dude, get an Inland SSD off of Amazon. Last time I checked, 480GB was $80, and they're decent SSDs too. Not Samsung EVO, but far from the Blitzwolf and Kingdian crap.

[RobFRaschke]

With NAND based drives, your performance will in large part be derived from the size of the drive, because larger drives will use more NAND chips, which means more channels of throughput from the controller to the flash. How about right on budget, faster than the Intel, and twice the size?

 

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820236393&ignorebbr=1

[itisme911]

3 minutes ago, RobFRaschke said:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820236393&ignorebbr=1

he makes a good point the corsair series are great, they arent rated to last as long (like you will ever see one fail anyways) and it has a slower max sequential read by spec but it fits your budget well

[RobFRaschke]

Max sequential reads and writes are something most people will never see. IOPS at 1QD are your most reliable spec for how well a controller handles the random reads and writes you'll actually use. Most list IOPS at a QD of 32 which is a little further from reality since you rarely have a string of 32 small files queued up for read or write, but sequentials are done reading and writing massive single files to/from something like a ramdrive, which is just nothing like real world use.

[itisme911]

4 minutes ago, RobFRaschke said:

sequentials are done reading and writing massive single files to/from something like a ramdrive

I personally run a lot of 4k games with large texture files on my m.2 so I do notice the m.2 with faster sequential works well for me.

[RyzenUp]

Sandisk A400 120gb its about 40 dollars

[RobFRaschke]

1 hour ago, itisme911 said:

I personally run a lot of 4k games with large texture files on my m.2 so I do notice the m.2 with faster sequential works well for me.

A 4096x4096 texture file(essentially the largest texture that might be used in 4K gaming, with many many, but highly unusual exceptions, with mipmaps, might be 85mb. With transfer speeds in excess of 1Gbps on m.2 nvme SSDs, you're not saturating the actual bandwidth of the drive, but possibly creating an IO queue of 10+ requests, and likely saturating any DRAM buffer on the drives because of the file size. You'll notice that as queue depth increases, up to about 16, the drives will get exponential performance increases because the controller is better able to load balance the data reads or writes from multiple nand chips.

 

So yes, your file size is seeing a higher performance than smaller texture files would, but not because total bandwidth available, but because of the total amount of data the games are reading at one time utilizing more of the drive at once.