Best SSD Upgrade

[SkyPhantom]

Hi everyone I'm looking for help picking an upgrade for my system. I'm currently using the Samsung 860 EVO 500gb. I'm looking for the best 1tb ssd I can get for around $100. It would be used as my main os drive, for games, and other programs. Thank you!

[GuiltySpark_]

M.2 slots are all free on that Tomohawk?

[ProjectBox153]

Are you looking for a 2.5" drive or an M.2 drive (either SATA or NVMe)? 

[GuiltySpark_]

Additionally, which models do you have picked out that you're looking at? If you use the drill down tool on something like Newegg you can select all SSD's under $100 and sort by most popular. I'm assuming you've done that part?

[SkyPhantom]

1 minute ago, rickeo said:

M.2 slots are all free on that Tomohawk?

Yes

[SkyPhantom]

1 minute ago, ProjectBox153 said:

Are you looking for a 2.5" drive or an M.2 drive (either SATA or NVMe)? 

It doesn't really matter to me, whichever one will get me better performance for what I'd be using it for. 

1 minute ago, rickeo said:

Additionally, which models do you have picked out that you're looking at? If you use the drill down tool on something like Newegg you can select all SSD's under $100 and sort by most popular. I'm assuming you've done that part?

Looking online, I saw that either the crucial p1 or intel 665p might be good options. 

[GuiltySpark_]

Intel's 665 Series is an NVMe drive available right at $100. Solid upgrade.

[SkyPhantom]

2 hours ago, rickeo said:

Intel's 665 Series is an NVMe drive available right at $100. Solid upgrade.

Yeah thats what I was thinking, I was just wondering if there were any better deals to be had. 

[Archer42]

Honestly would not buy intel 660/665/670p or crucial p1/p2 at this point. 660p was great deal couple of years ago, but nowadays there are a bunch of ssd-s with similar price, which are much less slow. WD SN550 is good example.

100MB/s write speed once the buffer is full is really not great...

[SkyPhantom]

2 hours ago, Archer42 said:

Honestly would not buy intel 660/665/670p or crucial p1/p2 at this point. 660p was great deal couple of years ago, but nowadays there are a bunch of ssd-s with similar price, which are much less slow. WD SN550 is good example.

100MB/s write speed once the buffer is full is really not great...

From the looks of it the SN550 seems to have slightly better performance than the other two, so I guess I'll go with that.

[ProjectBox153]

8 minutes ago, SkyPhantom said:

From the looks of it the SN550 seems to have slightly better performance than the other two, so I guess I'll go with that.

The SN550 is a great drive. I picked one up a couple months ago for only $99, and it's been great.