Choosing M.2 gen3 or gen4 with same price range

[Andrewxe]

Below, which would be the best option? Kingston is labeled as Gen4 so it looks attractive on paper. Any reason to opt for the other Gen3 M.2 which are a little expensive  than Kingston?

 

Kingston NV2 1TB M.2 NVMe Gen4 Internal SSD (SNV2S-1000G) - $52.78

Crucial P3 1TB PCIe M.2 NVMe Internal SSD (CT1000P3SSD8) - $ 58.25

Western Digital Blue SN570 1TB M.2 NVMe Internal SSD (WDS100T3B0C) - 62.49

[Shimejii]

Depends on what you are using it for and what platform you have. For most people getting a Gen 3 NVME is pretty much all they will ever need. Gen 4 drives still dont have much of a use yet, same with Gen 5. Direct storage still has yet to end up in more then a handful of titles. Load times are not an issue on PC with them.

 

If they are they same price, get the best quality drive, typically with Dram cache.  a Gen 4 Drive without Dram cache vs a Gen 3 Drive with Dram Cache, ill generally just choose the dram Cache one. Although again it all depends on the use case.

 

Is it your boot drive, Game Drive, Scratch drive, Video storage drive? Cause Intel Optane may also be a choice here.

[Andrewxe]

1 hour ago, Shimejii said:

Depends on what you are using it for and what platform you have. For most people getting a Gen 3 NVME is pretty much all they will ever need. Gen 4 drives still dont have much of a use yet, same with Gen 5. Direct storage still has yet to end up in more then a handful of titles. Load times are not an issue on PC with them.

 

If they are they same price, get the best quality drive, typically with Dram cache.  a Gen 4 Drive without Dram cache vs a Gen 3 Drive with Dram Cache, ill generally just choose the dram Cache one. Although again it all depends on the use case.

 

Is it your boot drive, Game Drive, Scratch drive, Video storage drive? Cause Intel Optane may also be a choice here.

So, it looks like the cheapest Dram model I can find is

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 NVMe Internal SSD (MZ-V7S1T0BW)

 

Would you choose this instead of

Kingston KC3000 1TB M.2 NVMe Gen4 Internal SSD (SKC3000S/1024G)

Western Digital Black SN770 1TB M.2 NVMe Gen4 Internal SSD (WDS100T3X0E)

 

Usage is browsing and school work lol. Gaming is only Dota 2. I deal with lots of .jpgs files and stuff. Also I use VMWare 

[Doobeedoo]

I see zero reason not to get Gen4 with DRAM at this point. Prices are good overall.

[Andrewxe]

4 minutes ago, Doobeedoo said:

I see zero reason not to get Gen4 with DRAM at this point. Prices are good overall.

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 NVMe Internal SSD (MZ-V7S1T0BW) is Gen3 but has Dram. The other two I posted do not have Dram but gen4. Any suggestion?

[Doobeedoo]

13 minutes ago, Andrewxe said:

Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 NVMe Internal SSD (MZ-V7S1T0BW) is Gen3 but has Dram. The other two I posted do not have Dram but gen4. Any suggestion?

Yeah it is a good drive. I would actually get that one from those. There are some newer without DRAM that are decent, but I personally don't see reason buying those. Especially where I am price wise makes no sense. Currently, we're still not there with DirectStorage so it's not as important which PCIe gen you get. 

[kokosnh]

What’s the price of the Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB to the Adata XPG Gammix S11 Pro 1TB i see in the https://mdcomputers.in/ssd-drive

 

if you buy it there, then i would buy cheaper Adata XPG Gammix S70 Blade 1TB. Instead of Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB, or go even cheaper For the S11 pro