Intel 660p, WD Black sn750, or Samsung 970 EVO

[KingMongkut]

Hello, there!

I am deciding on an NVMe drive for my PC, and I was wondering which is the best to get? The Samsung is fastest, but also is far more expensive; I care most about longevity and reliability. What would you recommend? I am not a pro user or anything, so should I just pick the cheapest?

Thanks!

[NotSoEpicMods]

Imo those 3 are all solid brands, just stay away from those lesser known ones such as "Torosus" or "KingDian" that you come across on amazon and such if you're worried about reliability.

[Sorenson]

I have a 500gb 960 evo as my main drive and a 1tb 660p as my steam drive. The samsung drive has been running without an issue for about 4 years now and is still much faster than my 1tb 660p. I recommend you get a smaller reliable SSD for my main drive and then a cheap drive for large files with a DRam cache. Some people say the 660p slows way down after 50%, but i haven't seen that. 

[Geoff35674567]

So what I know is Intel 660p is QLC which is 4-bit per cell and i think the other two are TLC. That will make the intel slower and cheaper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_cell

42 minutes ago, Sorenson said:

Some people say the 660p slows way down after 50%, but i haven't seen that. 

I am just over 50% on my 660P. I have not bench marked it but I have not noticed any performance loss.

[Sorenson]

1 minute ago, Geoff35674567 said:

So what I know is Intel 660p is QLC which is 4-bit per cell and i think the other two are TLC. That will make the intel slower and cheaper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_cell

I am just over 50% on my 660P. I have not bench marked it but I have not noticed any performance loss.

I’m 70% on mine and haven’t seen a slowdown. But recently I’ve seen a lot of people crapping on it and I don’t know why. TLC will generally be better than QLC, but the memory controller and dram also matter.

[Geoff35674567]

1 hour ago, Sorenson said:

I’m 70% on mine and haven’t seen a slowdown. But recently I’ve seen a lot of people crapping on it and I don’t know why. TLC will generally be better than QLC, but the memory controller and dram also matter.

my game data doesnt change much so i dont see the downsides affecting me. I wouldnt use it for programming or video editing etc.