not really “build” a PC, more “upgrade” but I guess people here might know relevant stuff.
anyhow, I’d like to upgrade storage and get a 2 TB drive. in the $100-region I have these models available:
- ADATA Legend 710 ALEG-710-2TCS
- ADATA Legend 800 ALEG-800-2000GCS
- Crucial P3 CT2000P3SSD8
- KINGSTON SNV2S/2000G
- KINGSTON SNV3S/2000G
- Lexar LNM620 LNM620X002T-RNNNG
- Seagate BarraCuda Q5 ZP2000CV3A001
- Seagate BarraCuda ZP2000CV3A002
I imagine they’re all bottom of the barrel type of deal, no DRAM cache, QLC, etc., but this would be my third drive of such variety (500 GB and 1 TB previous) and I had no issues daily driving 'em, linux with btrfs with HMB support.
so, before I start researching them all one-by-one, does one of these stand out as way better? the target hardware is AMD Ryzen 5 5600 on a B450 board. thanks!
edit: so, I got the data for the models from here and here’s an image of the result (can I post tables in markdown?)
just as I though, no DRAM on either of those.
Id probably do the Crucial, ADATA is such a hit or miss you could get something that’ll truck along for 15 years or it’ll die <6 months lmao
The rest are alright, I still have some PTSD from Seagate, but they’ve been better lately…so far
I was shopping around for a 2TB ssd not long ago and the top two contenders were samsung and crucial.
I did go with samsung because I wanted like the top of the line (if all goes well I’ll have this ssd for a very long time) and it won by a very small margin because it’s a tiny bit faster that’s all. Both seemed the most robust ones out there with most write capacity, so as you are not looking for a samsung, go crucial!