Looking for good reliable SSDs

[Varpin]

Hey, I'm looking for two reliable SSDs (two 2TB). Any recommendations? Currently looking at the Crucial MX500 and T500. I'm a bit worried that the T500 would run hot since the only M.2 slot I have is right behind the GPU and there isn't any space for a heat sink. That's why I'm thinking about sticking with sata SSDs only. I found a 2 year Reddit post about the MX500 saying that recent batches would have high failure rates, wonder if that's still true? Basically now I don't really know what to get... I would use these drives for almost everything: storing important files (images, videos), gaming, video editing, and also for backups. The OS won't be installed on these.

Would the BX500 be a good choice, even if it doesn't have DRAM?

Thank you

[Shimejii]

What is your motherboard? It may look like it wont fit but the heatsinks usually do, its the Gen 5 NVMES with tall heatsinks that usually dont.

[Varpin]

2 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

What is your motherboard? It may look like it wont fit but the heatsinks usually do, its the Gen 5 NVMES with tall heatsinks that usually dont.

@ShimejiiAorus GA-AX370-Gaming K7

[Shimejii]

4 minutes ago, Varpin said:

@ShimejiiAorus GA-AX370-Gaming K7

That board only supports Gen 3 Drives so id stick with one of those, unless the price for the gen 4 is only 5$ more.

 

SK Hynix P31, Samsung 970 Evo plus, amongst some of the others.

[Varpin]

4 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

That board only supports Gen 3 Drives so id stick with one of those, unless the price for the gen 4 is only 5$ more.

Okay, thank you. Do you know how important DRAM would be? Would the lack of it impact the life-span?

[Shimejii]

2 minutes ago, Varpin said:

Okay, thank you. Do you know how important DRAM would be? Would the lack of it impact the life-span?

Wont impact lifespan. Ive seen both types be fine for years, and both fail almost immediately.

 

DRAM helps though for sure if you intend on doing a lot. For purely gaming its mostly fine if you want but they are often about the same price.

[SpookyCitrus]

I've used pretty much only Crucial drives for the last 5 or so years. MX500s are great sata SSDs, you can't go wrong with them. The T500s are super solid Nvme drives, however with the age of your board, your money would be better spent on a gen 3 m.2 over getting a gen 4 you wouldn't even be able to fully utilize. Get a Crucial P3 they should be cheaper than the T500s by a decent amount. The Crucial MX500, P3, P3 Plus, and T500s are all SSDs I've used A LOT of and have had almost zero issues with. The P310 is their newer release, I've used maybe two in the last month, so no long term testing on them yet.

 

The only drive I can't give a 100% recommend for from them is the BX500s, I've had several fail over the years which is why I pay the extra for MX500s anytime I need a sata SSD. 

[leclod]

I've had an ssd behind a gpu.

I experienced direct gpu airflow as way better than random case airflow.

35° air is still cool to a 60° ssd

I recommend buying M.2 instead of sata

Edited November 5 by leclod

[BetteBalterZen]

I own two Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB's, one Crucial MX300 1TB and one Crucial MX500 2TB. 

All drives still works perfectly after some years of use. 

[kokosnh]

2TB PCIe 3.0 ssd are expensive, 

it’s cheaper to buy good TLC DRAM pcie 4.0 ssd in my country 

at least if we don’t talk about some very slow, and bad ssd, like nv2, or p3 etc. 
 

What country, and what’s the budget, and Use case?