SSD TIER LIST

[VEXICUS]

4 minutes ago, MultiGamerClub said:

Maybe going for an A2000 for 120$ wont be so bad as a game-folder only.

A2000 should be good for most part. (for storing games and other stuff)

[VEXICUS]

On 4/19/2021 at 6:25 AM, Slyceth said:

Do any M.2 drives go above 2 TB? I've looked into a few of the ones on your list but so far I can't find any that do.. It seems I might go for a 2 TB 980 Pro in this case as the corsair costs twice as much. (It's a second SSD besides a 970 EVO and it will be replacing my HDD for currently-playing games storage since it makes too much noise )

Here....

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#t=0&A=3000000000000,18000000000000&sort=price&f=122080

 

But they are significantly expensive.

[MultiGamerClub]

7 minutes ago, VEXICUS said:

A2000 should be good for most part. (for storing games and other stuff)

Seeing its 600TBW, im not expecting it to be golden but its only for games for the 99% part, should do on a PCIE3 lane bottom ?

[VEXICUS]

1 minute ago, MultiGamerClub said:

Seeing its 600TBW, im not expecting it to be golden but its only for games for the 99% part, should do on a PCIE3 lane bottom ?

yes...

[Super User]

What budget NVME M.2 would you suggest as the OS drive in a build with a Ryzen 5 5600X and TUF X570

[Juular]

1. Isn't PNY CS2130 QLC ?

2. There are two entries for SK Hynix in SATA tier B

[penguino]

It is. Also I'd downgrade all QLC drives to Tier C at most - they leverage their parameters on caches as QLC chips are very slow and with questionable longevity.

 

ADATA S50 Lite is a very mediocre "high-end" drive - it slows down significantly as cache runs out and it overheats very quickly which is very problematic as it already comes with a heatsink which is difficult to remove. Those are singnificant drawbacks.

 

Crucial MP510, PNY CS3030 and Partiot VPN100 also have new versions with Phison E12s controller.

 

With Crucial it's a serious downgrade, for 480GB version TBW went down from 800 to 360 and random read IOPS rating went down from 360k to 120k IOPS. New version is called Corsair MP510b - beware!

 

Lastly I'd love to see a very important info added at the very beginning of the thread - that manufacturers quite often switch some components in the new production runs of their product, usually the changes are for the worse. If a drive shows up in this list more than once youcan be pretty much certain that if you're going to buy one new you'll end up with the "updated" variant.

 

On 4/22/2021 at 4:52 PM, MultiGamerClub said:

Seeing its 600TBW, im not expecting it to be golden but its only for games for the 99% part, should do on a PCIE3 lane bottom ?

Samsung 980 Pro is also 600TBW. It's a standard for 1TB drive.

On 4/23/2021 at 2:07 PM, Super User said:

What budget NVME M.2 would you suggest as the OS drive in a build with a Ryzen 5 5600X and TUF X570

Kingston A2000. It deserves a honorable mention among budget drives as it has a proper DRAM.

[Juular]

2 minutes ago, penguino said:

Corsair MP510b

It is listed as MP510b or MP510 ? Because if it's the former then it's really not a downgrade since it's a different SKU, even if the difference is just in the 'b'.

Edit: i see, it's Corsair MP510 in the title, product pictures and pretty much everywhere else except for a different model number buried down there in extra specs. I'd say detier. FFS Corsair.

[metaleggman]

Seems weird the SN550 would be two tiers lower than the SN750, since it actually beats the SN750 depending on the application, as well as having a higher endurance.

Are you taking into account the effect capacity has on performance?  Or is this list based on the idea of comparing from a single capacity?  The PSU tier list does keep wattage in mind when looking at a model, since lower wattage models can be built differently, just like how capacity can change an SSDs performance quite a bit at times.

[VEXICUS]

18 hours ago, penguino said:

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17 hours ago, Juular said:

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Thanks for the heads up. It will be updated in the further iterations of this list.

[monkexyz]

hello guys, i need your opinion

so i was thinking to buy HDD, i alreday have nvme as boot drive

what is the better option

seagete barracuda 2TB with 7200rpm 

or

Seagete Barracuda 4Tb with 5400rpm 

 

please tell me about your opinion

[Skiiwee29]

8 minutes ago, monkexyz said:

hello guys, i need your opinion

so i was thinking to buy HDD, i alreday have nvme as boot drive

what is the better option

seagete barracuda 2TB with 7200rpm 

or

Seagete Barracuda 4Tb with 5400rpm 

 

please tell me about your opinion

Hey!

 

To get help, you should create your own thread specific to you only. This thread is to discuss currently available SSDs and how they stack up against each other. 

[monkexyz]

6 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Hey!

 

To get help, you should create your own thread specific to you only. This thread is to discuss currently available SSDs and how they stack up against each other. 

oke, sorry my bad

im new Here

 

Thanks for the info

[Mutki]

What is the top dog Gen4 NVMe drive for a boot drive? People have said the 980 Pros have issues with cache.

[Juular]

51 minutes ago, Mutki said:

Gen4 NVMe drive for a boot drive

Pretty much cheapest TLC Gen4 you can find, most of them are practically identical anyway. But you don't need a Gen4 NVMe SSD for a boot drive, nor for anything really.

[Mutki]

17 hours ago, Juular said:

Pretty much cheapest TLC Gen4 you can find, most of them are practically identical anyway. But you don't need a Gen4 NVMe SSD for a boot drive, nor for anything really.

I don't need a 5900X or a 3090 then by that logic, but that's not what I asked.

It seems the 980 Pros have issues with cache and the Rocket 4 Plus have issues with just dying.

[Juular]

5 hours ago, Mutki said:

I don't need a 5900X or a 3090 then by that logic, but that's not what I asked.

The difference is that you can utilize both R9 5900X and RTX3090 power in many applications, it might not make sense to go such high-end in most cases but still. Gen4 NVMe is just useless outside of synthetic benchmarks unless you copy files between two Gen4's all day.

5 hours ago, Mutki said:

It seems the 980 Pros have issues with cache and the Rocket 4 Plus have issues with just dying.

I'm not aware of such issues with Rocket 4.0 Plus, not that i've followed it really closely. But there may be some sub percent failure rate as usual for any product. There are also there's like a dozen other Gen4s out there, WD SN850, ADATA S70, Corsair MP600, Team Cardea Zero, Aorus Gen4, you name it. What kind of issues with cache on 970 Pro ?

[tdkid]

can someone tell me why there is red, blue and neon green colors on the names of the SSDs on the tier list?

 

 

[Juular]

4 hours ago, tdkid said:

can someone tell me why there is red, blue and neon green colors on the names of the SSDs on the tier list?

There's a legend in the spoiler.

[tdkid]

1 hour ago, Juular said:

There's a legend in the spoiler.

what?

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

36 minutes ago, tdkid said:

what?

*speaks up* THERE'S A LEGEND IN THE SPOILER.

[tdkid]

1 minute ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

*speaks up* THERE'S A LEGEND IN THE SPOILER.

what? speak up. i am deaf and blind, lol

 

yeah a lot of good that does when you dont expalin which each of the 

SLC

MLC

TLC

QLC

means in that spolier to people who dont know.

[Juular]

29 minutes ago, tdkid said:

yeah a lot of good that does when you dont expalin which each of the means in that spolier to people who dont know.

Basically, SLC/MLC - very high endurance but expensive and aside of previous generations of Samsung high-end drives, almost inexistent today. TLC - in between endurance and performance, relatively inexpensive today. QLC - lower endurance and very low sustained writing speeds, about 100MB\s when the cache is exhausted, which is about as large as 100GB per 1TB. So, QLC drives smaller than 1-2TB aren't good pick if there are NVMe TLC drives for a few bucks more or even good old SATA TLC SSDs for about the same price or cheaper.

[tdkid]

3 minutes ago, Juular said:

Basically, SLC/MLC - very high endurance but expensive and aside of previous generations of Samsung high-end drives, almost inexistent today. TLC - in between endurance and performance, relatively inexpensive today. QLC - lower endurance and very low sustained writing speeds, about 100MB\s when the cache is exhausted, which is about as large as 100GB per 1TB. So, QLC drives smaller than 1-2TB aren't good pick if there are NVMe TLC drives for a few bucks more or even good old SATA TLC SSDs for about the same price or cheaper.

i know that as i looked it up but you guys were telling me there was a legend in the spoiler but the legend doesnt explain anything so what good is it unless you already know what its talking about in which why were you asking. that teir list info needs to be redone.

[TrainNutter]

Where would the Seagate Barracuda Q5 sit on this?

I think its very new (Pre order option on Scan.co.uk). Its QLC and 2TB for £200

I would assume D or C tier maybe?