Which M.2 Drive to get?

[Applebob]

I’m looking for a new 2 TB M.2 since the XPG 8200 Pro died after a few months and its not worth doing RMA since I have to send it across the globe where I originally bought it. It died after a long plane ride, nothing is recognized when plug in to any device. I use it as an external drive.

I’m currently looking at 970 EVO Plus and and WD black SN750. Any better options? Which of the 2 should I get if I’m going with those option? Is the case important? I have 2 random usb c 3.1 housing that I bought, hope its not the housing that killed me xpg 8200 pro

I have two empty housing, should I go with two 1 tb drive or one 2 tb drive? If I’m getting a 2 TB drive, I will partition 1 TB for automatic backup and the other half to store files.

[PwnyTheTiger]

Samsung has a good reputation for a reason and I personally stick with them when it comes to SSDs or NVME drives. I have 2 in my build at the moment and neither have EVER had any sort of issue for me and the speeds are spot on. Would highly recommend.

[SorryBella]

13 minutes ago, Applebob said:

Any better options?

Their 4.0 counterpart, the 980 Pro and SN850.

[Falkentyne]

40 minutes ago, Applebob said:

I’m looking for a new 2 TB M.2 since the XPG 8200 Pro died after a few months and its not worth doing RMA since I have to send it across the globe where I originally bought it. It died after a long plane ride, nothing is recognized when plug in to any device. I use it as an external drive.

I’m currently looking at 970 EVO Plus and and WD black SN750. Any better options? Which of the 2 should I get if I’m going with those option? Is the case important? I have 2 random usb c 3.1 housing that I bought, hope its not the housing that killed me xpg 8200 pro

I have two empty housing, should I go with two 1 tb drive or one 2 tb drive? If I’m getting a 2 TB drive, I will partition 1 TB for automatic backup and the other half to store files.

WD SN750 and SN850 are good drives.  I have a 2 TB SN850 and it has all my steam games on it.

 

Samsung drives usually seem to be good but I did have a 256GB 960 evo, the boot drive in my laptop, just completely die out of nowhere after four years.  No reason or explanation for that...it was just suddenly as dead as a doorknob (my desktop could sometimes detect it in the BIOS after a cold boot but then it would disappear and nothing could be read from it, and windows just showed a "type 10" error on the drive in device manager.

My 1TB 960 Evo, 1TB 960 pro, and 1TB 860 Evo m.2 SATA (not nvme) and 1TB 860 evo SATA 2.5" SSD are still working.  I also have a TimeTec 2.5" SSD drive I bought for Alder Lake testing that I may throw into my case with the rest of the system but I don't know how reliable it is...

[Souranil21 chakraborty]

2 hours ago, PwnyTheTiger said:

Samsung has a good reputation for a reason and I personally stick with them when it comes to SSDs or NVME drives. I have 2 in my build at the moment and neither have EVER had any sort of issue for me and the speeds are spot on. Would highly recommend.

970 evo is a great choice

and also i think that m.2 drive is less in price in India at least