Which NVMe SSD should I choose

[uberas]

Hello, I’ve get rid of my 250GB sata drive and now looking at some NVMe 500-1000GB. There’s good deal for that WD BLUE SN500 drive but I can’t really find any info about it. It goes for around 70 dollars and I believe it’s TLC not QLC. There’s intel 660p 1TB for around 100 dollars as well, I’m about to buy WD but I’m not quite sure if I’m right

thanks for help

prices are for united kingdom

[Vulkan HeStan]

Which form factor are you going for? m.2, pcie? Have you got a budget or are you looking for best price per GB? You can use his page to help search for parts:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/

[uberas]

9 minutes ago, Vulkan HeStan said:

Which form factor are you going for? m.2, pcie? Have you got a budget or are you looking for best price per GB? You can use his page to help search for parts:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/

M.2 and I’m looking for best price per GB.

[Vulkan HeStan]

3 minutes ago, uberas said:

M.2 and I’m looking for best price per GB.

Based off that criteria I'd recommend the Intel 660p. The best place to get it is probably CCL computers. Here's the link: https://www.cclonline.com/product/269937/SSDPEKNW010T8X1/Solid-State-Drives-SSDs-/Intel-SSD-6-Series-660p-1TB-Solid-State-Drive-PCI-Express-3-0-x4-M-2-80mm-3D2-QLC-Internal-/SSD0910/?siteID=8BacdVP0GFs-H3mXtPJVUMHTFVs5zezjsg

[Vulkan HeStan]

If you want a 500gb the 660p is about 65 quid from CCL

[uberas]

6 minutes ago, Vulkan HeStan said:

If you want a 500gb the 660p is about 65 quid from CCL

I can get 1tb for £85 though, but is it reliable enough to use as main drive? I just want to get rid of cables 

[DocSwag]

Anandtech has a good review on the SN500, it's a pretty good budget NVMe drive especially since it keeps performance pretty well even when it fills up, while the QLC of the 660p can't keep up when it fills up. I would go for it unless you can find decent SATA SSDs that cost a fair bit less

 

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14223/the-western-digital-wd-blue-sn500-ssd-review

[Vulkan HeStan]

3 minutes ago, uberas said:

I can get 1tb for £85 though, but is it reliable enough to use as main drive? I just want to get rid of cables 

Have you got a link for that?

[uberas]

1 minute ago, Vulkan HeStan said:

Have you got a link for that?

You have 25 minutes to buy

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/intel-660p-series-1tb-3252276

5 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Anandtech has a good review on the SN500, it's a pretty good budget NVMe drive especially since it keeps performance pretty well even when it fills up, while the QLC of the 660p can't keep up when it fills up. I would go for it unless you can find decent SATA SSDs that cost a fair bit less

 

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14223/the-western-digital-wd-blue-sn500-ssd-review

Well, the prices aren’t good in UK - that’s gonna be one of the cheapest 500GB available here, after 20% discount from eBay it’s £54~~$70

[Vulkan HeStan]

21 minutes ago, uberas said:

You have 25 minutes to buy

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/intel-660p-series-1tb-3252276

I'd say go for it

[uberas]

Just now, Vulkan HeStan said:

I'd say go for it

Nah, I’ll just wait for some better deals QLC is what scares me 

[Vulkan HeStan]

1 minute ago, uberas said:

Nah, I’ll just wait for some better deals QLC is what scares me 

Fair enough. The PC Part Picker website is great for comparing parts in the future

[DocSwag]

53 minutes ago, uberas said:

You have 25 minutes to buy

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/intel-660p-series-1tb-3252276

Well, the prices aren’t good in UK - that’s gonna be one of the cheapest 500GB available here, after 20% discount from eBay it’s £54~~$70

That's a pretty decent price for the SN500, decent SATA SSDs are already that much and this should be a bit better than any SATA SSD so I'd say get the SN500

[uberas]

The deal for SN500 just expired but I can get brand new Corsair MP300 960GB for £80. Is it still worth it? Also, there’s dirt cheap integral performance 4 960GB for around £60 and it actually claims around 2000TBW?

[DocSwag]

17 hours ago, uberas said:

The deal for SN500 just expired but I can get brand new Corsair MP300 960GB for £80. Is it still worth it? Also, there’s dirt cheap integral performance 4 960GB for around £60 and it actually claims around 2000TBW?

That's a solid deal. MP300 is a pretty low end NVMe drive but at that price it's competing with low end SATA SSDs which are worse. 660p is a bit faster when it's not full but when it fills up it'll get a lot slower than the MP300, so MP300 is probably fine. What is this integral drive you're talking about? I can't find anything on it

[hello_there_123]

17 hours ago, uberas said:

The deal for SN500 just expired but I can get brand new Corsair MP300 960GB for £80. Is it still worth it?

No. It's garbage. 

 

https://imgur.com/a/sYmbnMr

 

Get the HP EX920 1tb instead if you actually need NVMe (like for video editing etc.)

[uberas]

7 hours ago, DocSwag said:

That's a solid deal. MP300 is a pretty low end NVMe drive but at that price it's competing with low end SATA SSDs which are worse. 660p is a bit faster when it's not full but when it fills up it'll get a lot slower than the MP300, so MP300 is probably fine. What is this integral drive you're talking about? I can't find anything on it

Well, it’s probably

“From January 2016
Phison S10 + 15nm TLC
Read 560MBs, Write 500MBs”

but I’m not quite sure as seller marked 512Mb cache and that goes for MLC one so let’s assume that’s s10+tlc.

As my research says MP300 gets really hot so probably gonna avoid it.

7 hours ago, hello_there_123 said:

No. It's garbage. 

 

https://imgur.com/a/sYmbnMr

 

Get the HP EX920 1tb instead if you actually need NVMe (like for video editing etc.)

Well I don’t really need it, just wanted to get rid of cables. I’m not living in states so we ain’t got one 

[DoctorNick]

Just bought a MP510 - was almost the same price as the Intel 660p +$10

[uberas]

1 hour ago, DoctorNick said:

Just bought a MP510 - was almost the same price as the Intel 660p +$10

Well thats what I was thinking, you got TLC plus ddr3 cache

[hello_there_123]

3 hours ago, uberas said:

Well I don’t really need it, just wanted to get rid of cables. I’m not living in states so we ain’t got one 

Yeah I'm talking about the UK. It should be the cheapest decent NVMe drive there (from pcpp at least).