Bang for your buck nvme?

[Gohardgrandpa]

I want to replace the garbage adata su635 480gb Sata SSD that came in my PC with something better and bigger. 

 

I want to go nvme and 1tb. I've used the WD blue sn550 before without any issues. Don't know if I should grab another one of those or if there is something else I should be looking at that's better performance wise. 

 

I've got $120 to spend, I can buy from my any US based store but prefer Amazon due to shipping speed.  Appreciate any help you guys can give with this

[tkitch]

if the health of your 480GB is still good, why not just add a 1TB as extra space?

[Gohardgrandpa]

3 minutes ago, tkitch said:

if the health of your 480GB is still good, why not just add a 1TB as extra space?

The health on it is fine, it is my windows drive and that's why I want to replace it. I'll use it for secondary games but I want my OS and most used stuff on a nvme. 

 

The read and write speeds on it are terrible. Yes it's faster than a mechanical hard drive but it's noticably slower compared to what I've used in the past

[Jonathan Lee]

Typically, I would say good value NVME's are ones with DRAM Cache. This is especially true when games or programs are updating. It will prevent sudden slow downs due to the SSD being over run. Some good options are the following:

Silicon Power A80

ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro

Mushkin Pilot-E

ADATA XPG GAMMIX S11 Pro