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Well if you have an M.2 Slot and a large budget, Samsung's 960 lineup looks super great. if you would prefer a SATA SSD, then basically any 1TB drive made by a reputable manufacturer caps the 6Gbps of SATA, so you really just need to get the highest IOPS and random read/writes for your money

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Honestly though, if you need a 1TB SSD for games/storage, just get a 4TB HDD, save 200$, and use the money you saved for 2 years of pornhub premium  An upgrade down the line for your PC, or something else you might need.

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For storage and games only, I would get something like HyperX savage/fury.

Nothing fancy.

 

I got rid of my WD black 1TB drive and replaced it with hyperx fury 480gb, just to get rid of the noise :)

Not to mention that for normal storage you don't need insane fast SSD.

 

Sure for some games it might benefit in opening time. So if you would get better SSD, games would open 1sec faster. But at 200$ price difference.

So for storage and games you can just get some cheap SSD :)

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Just now, Tic-Tac said:

That's what I'm thinking. Just don't want to worry about performance, controllers, lifespan etc. 

Well SSDs have a lifespan too...

Unless you are doing something crazy with your games, just get an HDD like I said in my previous post.

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I've got both Crucial MX200 1TB and Sandisk Ultra II 960GB for game storage. The main reason for choice: they were cheap at the time I got them. Even a lower performance SSD is still noticeably faster than any HD, so I buy for capacity.

 

Games are mostly read only so I wouldn't expect write life to be a limiting factor. 

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No, I will not do anything crazy with my games :) The main purpose of large SATA SSD in my system will be storage for games, movies and photos mainly. I'm getting faster speeds and no noise at all and that's my goal. I've been using WD Blue 1TB and WD Black 1TB for almost 4 years and they serving me well but lately I'm experiencing more and more those fairly slow speed and I think that time is come for me to transition to SATA SSD. 

 

For example, I'm also using Samsung 830 128GB SATA SSD as OS/programs drive for about 4 years too and it's serving me very well. Back in those days this drive was a quantum leap lol

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55 minutes ago, Tic-Tac said:

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Hi there :)

 

Mind that these types of usage (media and gaming) won't really benefit from what a SSD offers as performance except the initial loading times of the games. You can easily use a regular HDD for these things.

Have you checked our new WD Blue SSD as a potential option? 

Let me know if you have any questions! 

 

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2 minutes ago, Tic-Tac said:

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WD Blue SSD is indeed a SATA SSD and it's different from the regular WD Blue. :)

I understand the confusion from the similarities in the naming but you can check all the details in the link that I posted in my previous comment under WD Blue SSD.

 

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The confusion has been there because you linked "WB Blue" only, there was no "SSD" and then my reply came. Now I see that you've edited your post, it's ok although your link doesn't work :)

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22 minutes ago, Tic-Tac said:

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I actually didn't edit the post.

Apologies for the broken link. This link should work: https://www.wdc.com/en-ie/products/solid-state-drives/wd-blue-ssd.html 

 

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