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1 minute ago, Avocheeseado said:

Hi everyone. Hope you are doing well. I have nearly run out of storage on my 1tb nvme drive so need some more storage. This will have some games and video files on so would like it to be fast. I was thinking about the 1tb MX500. Is that a good option for around £100?

860 EVO, MX500 and WD Blue (not SN550) would all three be decent options.

They perform about equal to each other, so it's more of a "which brand do you prefer" and "which is the cheapest".

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the A2000 is available for under £100

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
Storage Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £96.97 @ Laptops Direct
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £96.97
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-20 16:43 BST+0100  

 

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PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
Storage Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £96.97 @ Laptops Direct
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £96.97
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-20 16:43 BST+0100  

you can find an a2000 for around that price, but if you need a 2.5" the mx500 is decent.

PC: Motherboard: ASUS B550M TUF-Plus, CPU: Ryzen 3 3100, CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34, GPU: GIGABYTE WindForce GTX1650S, RAM: HyperX Fury RGB 2x8GB 3200 CL16, Case, CoolerMaster MB311L ARGB, Boot Drive: 250GB MX500, Game Drive: WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM HDD.

 

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1 minute ago, Oswin said:

the A2000 is available for under £100

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
Storage Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £96.97 @ Laptops Direct
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £96.97
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-20 16:43 BST+0100  

 

I would get that but my motherboard is a b450 tomahawk max and only has one m.2 slot :(

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Look for a Kingston A2000, or since you won't be using it as a boot drive, a Crucial P1 if it's cheaper.

2 minutes ago, Avocheeseado said:

I would get that but my motherboard is a b450 tomahawk max and only has one m.2 slot :(

Then the MX500 is a solid choice. Other similar options would be the Samsung 860 EVO and ADATA SU800.

Edited by Mateyyy

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3 minutes ago, Oswin said:

the A2000 is available for under £100

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
Storage Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £96.97 @ Laptops Direct
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £96.97
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-20 16:43 BST+0100  
1 minute ago, Mateyyy said:

The MX500 is SATA, not NVMe.

Look for a Kingston A2000, or since you won't be using it as a boot drive, a Crucial P1 if it's cheaper.

3 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:
PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
Storage Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £96.97 @ Laptops Direct
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £96.97
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-20 16:43 BST+0100  

you can find an a2000 for around that price, but if you need a 2.5" the mx500 is decent.

OP's motherboard only has a single M.2 slot, otherwise the A2000 would have been my recommendation (faster than the SATA drives I mentioned in my post at the same price).

 

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10 hours ago, minibois said:

 I mentioned in my post at the same price).

yea, wasn't sure so i did say that if 2.5" is needed, the mx500 is good.

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OP's motherboard only has a single M.2 slot, otherwise the A2000 would have been my recommendation (faster than the SATA drives I mentioned in my post at the same price).

 

yeap, wasn't aware that OP has a B450 tomahawk

G502 Lightspeed Review

PC:

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GIGABYTE GA-H110M-DS2

CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX 2X4 DDR4-2666MHz

ASUS ROG STRIX-GTX 1060-O6G

SEAGATE 2TB HDD

FUJISTU F300 240GB SSD

CORSAIR CX750M

Laptop:

Spoiler

Acer Nitro 5
i5 8300h
GTX 1050 4Gb
12 Gb RAM

128 Gb SSD

1 Tb HDD

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Logitech G310 Atlas Dawn (Romer G)

Rexus Legionare MX5.1 (Content Browns)

Mice:

Logitech G602

Logitech G502 Lightspeed
Steelseries Rival 105

Logitech M330

Headset:

Logitech G430 
Cooler Master MH 752

 

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3 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

yea, wasn't sure so i did say that if 2.5" is needed, the mx500 is good.

 

9 minutes ago, minibois said:

860 EVO, MX500 and WD Blue (not SN550) would all three be decent options.

They perform about equal to each other, so it's more of a "which brand do you prefer" and "which is the cheapest".

I know the 860 evo is slightly faster than the mx500. Do you think it is worth spending £15 more on that.

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10 hours ago, Avocheeseado said:

Do you think it is worth spending £15 more on that.

I mean, the performance will be similar and for a casual user it doesn't matter.

PC: Motherboard: ASUS B550M TUF-Plus, CPU: Ryzen 3 3100, CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34, GPU: GIGABYTE WindForce GTX1650S, RAM: HyperX Fury RGB 2x8GB 3200 CL16, Case, CoolerMaster MB311L ARGB, Boot Drive: 250GB MX500, Game Drive: WD Blue 1TB 7200RPM HDD.

 

Peripherals: GK61 (Optical Gateron Red) with Mistel White/Orange keycaps, Logitech G102 (Purple), BitWit Ensemble Grey Deskpad. 

 

Audio: Logitech G432, Moondrop Starfield, Mic: Razer Siren Mini (White).

 

Phone: Pixel 3a (Purple-ish).

 

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I know the 860 evo is slightly faster than the mx500. Do you think it is worth spending £15 more on that.

The MX500 has better read, the 860 EVO better write. Not a noticeable difference.

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The real difference is in the TBW (how much TB of data can be written to the drive before it fails).

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10 hours ago, Avocheeseado said:

or is there not much of a difference.

there isn't for a casual user, maybe a second or two but it doesn't matter really.

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Peripherals: GK61 (Optical Gateron Red) with Mistel White/Orange keycaps, Logitech G102 (Purple), BitWit Ensemble Grey Deskpad. 

 

Audio: Logitech G432, Moondrop Starfield, Mic: Razer Siren Mini (White).

 

Phone: Pixel 3a (Purple-ish).

 

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Ok. And will a SATA ssd feel much slower than an nvme ssd or is there not much of a difference.

Depends on what you're doing, but I think in most use-cases you will not see a difference between SATA Or NVME drives.

22 minutes ago, Avocheeseado said:

This will have some games and video files

For these type of uses a SATA drive will be fine. Even for video editing, my 860 EVO is doing fine and not holding back performance of any of my other parts. Although that is partially because of my less than stellar CPU.

With the higher end CPU's, you would see a difference between a SATA and NVME SSD.

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mini eLiXiVy: my open source 65% mechanical PCB, a build log, PCB anatomy and discussing open source licenses: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1366493-elixivy-a-65-mechanical-keyboard-build-log-pcb-anatomy-and-how-i-open-sourced-this-project/

 

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You could buy an adapter card and plug that adapter card into the pci-e x16 that gets pci-e lanes from the chipset (the bottom pci-e x16 slot).

M.2 NGFF to Desktop PCIe x4 x8 x16 NVMe SATA Dual SSD PCI Express Adapter Card | eBay

M.2 NGFF to Computer PCIe x4 x8 x16 NVMe SATA Dual SSD PCI Express Adapter Card | eBay

 

 

 

Your board has pci-e 2.0 x4 connection to that bottom pci-e x16, so that means you get 2 GB/s to the m.2 ssd... which is better than 560 MB/s a sata ssd can do

 

Now you can get a good fast nvme drive and put it on the adapter card or move your existing ssd to the adapter card and use the actual m.2 connector on the board.

 

 

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closest to pci-e slot is for nvme m.2 drives, the one at the top is for sata only m.2 ssds (need to connect a sata cable to motherboard)

 

Also low profile versions with single m.2 nvme ssd placeholder, if you don't want adapter card to obstruct video card fans that much :

https://www.ebay.com/itm/M-2-NVME-SSD-PCI-Express-3-0-x4-PCIE-Adapter-Card-Heat-Sink-with-Thermal-Pads/122747816916?epid=14006939447&hash=item1c94570bd4:g:CpkAAOSw~4hbxvrF

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/M-2-PCIe-NVMe-SSD-to-PCI-E-Express-3-0-X4-X8-X16-Adapter-Card-Full-Speed-2280-mm/123958391075?hash=item1cdc7ef123:g:PMYAAOSwu4pduoUn

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/M-2-NVMe-SSD-NGFF-TO-PCI-E-Adapter-M-Key-Interface-Card-M2-to-PCI-Express/392159793339?hash=item5b4e8b90bb:g:OpMAAOSwyiFb1Pqj

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, mariushm said:

You could buy an adapter card and plug that adapter card into the pci-e x16 that gets pci-e lanes from the chipset (the bottom pci-e x16 slot).

M.2 NGFF to Desktop PCIe x4 x8 x16 NVMe SATA Dual SSD PCI Express Adapter Card | eBay

M.2 NGFF to Computer PCIe x4 x8 x16 NVMe SATA Dual SSD PCI Express Adapter Card | eBay

 

 

 

Your board has pci-e 2.0 x4 connection to that bottom pci-e x16, so that means you get 2 GB/s to the m.2 ssd... which is better than 560 MB/s a sata ssd can do

 

Now you can get a good fast nvme drive and put it on the adapter card or move your existing ssd to the adapter card and use the actual m.2 connector on the board.

 

 

s-l1600.thumb.jpg.7dd71f03fe93bb9a5c164e0b049e0bd2.jpg

 

closest to pci-e slot is for nvme m.2 drives, the one at the top is for sata only m.2 ssds (need to connect a sata cable to motherboard)

That could be an option but I already have a wifi card in the x4 slot. I think i will go for just a sata ssd

 

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