Is Apacer AS2280P4 1TB M.2 good for design and multimedia?

[sloosysinate]

Hi guys,
My motherboard is Asus Prime B450M-A II.
Is Apacer AS2280P4 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen 3, gonna be compatiable with my Mobo?
Apparently it has 3D TLC NAND Flash.

I'm going to work multimedia stuff in PS-AI, PR-AE, Blender-Unreal Engine and obviously lot more.
Am I going to be fine?

[MiszS]

It's 100% compatible, modern SSDs either have TLC (3 bits per cell) or QLC (4 bits per cell) flash, with TLC being better, i wouldn't really buy any QLC SSDs, since those are barely cheaper, but have a way shorter lifespan, and are slower. You could benefit from a faster SSD, and one with DRAM cache, but unless you have extra money, it's perfectly fine, especially when most of the stuff is kept in RAM anyway

[itsabearcannon]

If you're going to be using your SSD to store files being worked on in Photoshop or Premiere, just do NOT use it as a scratch disk.

 

If you want an SSD for your main data, get yours, but maybe also consider a separate SSD scratch disk like one of the little ~$30 P1600X M.2 Optane drives:

https://www.newegg.com/intel-optane-ssd-p1600x-58gb/p/N82E16820167488

 

It's rated for 6 full drive writes per day, so for the 58GB drive that's a total of 635TBW over its 5-year lifespan.

[sloosysinate]

7 hours ago, itsabearcannon said:

If you're going to be using your SSD to store files being worked on in Photoshop or Premiere, just do NOT use it as a scratch disk.

 

If you want an SSD for your main data, get yours, but maybe also consider a separate SSD scratch disk like one of the little ~$30 P1600X M.2 Optane drives:

https://www.newegg.com/intel-optane-ssd-p1600x-58gb/p/N82E16820167488

 

It's rated for 6 full drive writes per day, so for the 58GB drive that's a total of 635TBW over its 5-year lifespan.

Thank you! I'm going for the main storage and all necessary softwares gonna run in SSD.

 

I wish I could use 2 SSD but I got only 1 slot, my current Transcend 128GB M.2 430S going strong, still at 26%. But it doesn’t have the space I need.