1TB 660P NVME vs W.D. BLUE SSD Non NVME 1TB

[toxsickcity]

Hi All,

 

I once owned a 500gb 660p it was absolute crap.

when it was overloaded with copying from a HDD the DDR onboard fills then runs very very slow!!!

 

I dont know if the 1TB 660p would be better then the 500GB i owned,

 

anyways, I am chasing cheap ssd's and am seeing in australia for similar price I can grab a 660P 1TB or a NON NVME W.D. Blue.. M.2 SSD

 

I am kind of liking going the w.d. pcie speeds doesnt really worry me too much.. as on a laptop not really gonna see 2000MB/s etc haha

 

any thoughts on why I should not buy the W.D.?

 

EDIT.. I can also grab a Crucial P1 1TB.. for same price

[Hugh54321]

12 minutes ago, toxsickcity said:

I dont know if the 1TB 660p would be better then the 500GB i owned,

its the same technology so it will be the same. QLC is good for games and not much else. You will have to research what type of flash the WD is using.

[Jurrunio]

49 minutes ago, toxsickcity said:

when it was overloaded with copying from a HDD the DDR onboard fills then runs very very slow!!!

Unless you buy SLC SSDs (which you basically can't, without knowing server owners that would sell you some of their bulk-ordered server grade SSDs), all SSDs slow down when they run out of SLC cache (which is running some of their MLC/TLC/QLC cells in SLC mode for extra speed). More capacity helps, but they all still slow down eventually with huge constant writes like this.

 

51 minutes ago, toxsickcity said:

as on a laptop not really gonna see 2000MB/s etc haha

Imo SATA is totally enough, but unless you're doing these huge writes constantly the 660p still has the edge in read speeds.

 

52 minutes ago, toxsickcity said:

EDIT.. I can also grab a Crucial P1 1TB.. for same price

Largely the same stuff as the 660p, both QLC NVMe SSDs (WD Blue is TLC SATA)