The only channel I watch for SSD recommendation thanks again got a t500 a couples years ago thanks to your recommendation nice too see it's still a respected drive.
I have a T705, it is phenomenal. 17,000 read and 12,500 write. Very very good temps and extreme endurance performance. It can do GB/s disk write speeds on steam which I'm sure that most of us know that Steam throttles speeds. I had a 8000/5000 gen4 crucial prior that only saw 110MB/s disk speeds in steam and similar in other programs. It is on a huge sale for Black Friday right now in the U.S. I highly recommend getting one if you have the change.
The honesty in which the information has been gathered, sifted through and conveyed is a great treat to the viewer and so helpful. Nada seems to choose her words concisely and in short..... Cuts to the chase for all of us.... Thank You !!😃
Can i just say that you guys have grown leaps and bounds in the production value, professional presentation and extensive, in-depth testing. I still remember when this channel kind of popped out of nowhere. It was really well put together back then, but seems to me that you have surpassed every other tech channel by now. Congrats and keep it up. Also, pls never stop these GPU model comparison videos, they are a godsend. Groetjes!
Thank you for doing a segment on 2230 drives! Some notes: The Corsair MP600 is available in 2 variants; the Mini and the Core Mini. The Mini uses TLC NAND and the Core Mini uses QLC NAND. There's a fair bit of difference in speed and durability. TBW of 1200 TB for the Mini and 450 TB for the Core Mini. Also, you mention the Sabrent Rocket being "the same hardware as the Corsair", however the Corsair MP600 Mini shown in the video uses TLC NAND but the Sabrent uses QLC NAND, like the MP600 Core Mini. Lastly, I want to mention that for use in a Steam Deck or similar, speed is not the primary concern. Any of the 2 TB 2230 drives I've seen can do speeds well beyond what the rest of mobile hardware like the Steam Deck or the ROG Ally (X) can saturate. Power consumption and thermals are way more important for such small handheld devices IMMO. Other than that; Great roundup!
All my SSDs in my primary system have been Samsung. Started with sata ssd from samsung years ago, now my main drive is 990 pro and a 970 evo plus as secondary.
Don't be blinded by brands though! Samsung have a long track record with SSD drives, I used them for a decade moving on from early adoption of "value" SSD drives in 64 & 128 GB capacities. Byt early last year I switched away and both fast PCIE4 Kingston drives and PCIE3 value drives by Crucial have performed well since. Samsung had value & reliability issues due to firmware on Pro drives in 2023. Now I found a good BF deal on a 990 Pro so as Marta said can benefit from the convenience of the Magician software as an upgrade on my personal workstation. It's nice to see that decision confirmed by Marta's testing.
Been rocking a 1TB KC3000 for 18 months and I'm happy with it. Performance has been impressive with no letdowns *touch wood*. It's also cheap locally at AUD99. With the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, now is a great time to bag a bargain. I'm tossing up between a KC3000 2TB and NV3 2TB as secondary storage for some games, photos and home video library. Performance (and DRAM) or price? Decisions, decisions...
For my Windows 11 PC, I've found a mix of 1TB T500 plus 4TB NM790 to be a great mix. Having the DRAM cache for Windows OS, utilities, applications, game launchers, etc. is a big benefit. The lack of DRAM cache on the NM790 doesn't really impact gaming (for me) as installing/patching games on it isn't all that frequent or improved all that much by the cache, whereas reading from it to play those games isn't improved by the cache so capacity per $ was more important. For my PS5Pro, a 2TB SN850X (with heatsink) works great, was actually cheaper than the same drive WITHOUT heatsink!
the one stop shop for ssd comparisons. im the tech friend in my group and when people ask me for advice for m.2 ssds i link them this chanel. good work guys. en beste wensen! :D p.s i actually bought a SN770 about a year ago based on your advice and i love it :D
I bought my two WD 850 (in the last Amazon sale in August) based mostly on your recommendation and absolutely love the performance. DCS load up times went from 1min 32sec with my HDD to 30sec with the WD850 and no more in-game micro-stutters, smooove as butter. Thank you Nada
From the thumbnail, I knew the "SK Hynix" would be amongst the pile! In 2002, I got my first PC with the Pentium 4 processor running Windows 98. The 128 MB memory was from SK Hynix! I still have that PC, not in working condition but as a souvenir!
Building a new 9900X/X670E system so revisited the list. With current USA pricing at the very end of 2024, the P41 Platinum 1TB seemed like the best value.
FTI the Solidigm P44 Pro is the same drive as the SK Hynix P41, just with slightly different firmware. So that's another option for "all-around" drive and may have better availability depending on where you are.
Confusions erased.This is the best comparison video of SSD's. Last year I bought WD Black SN 850x on your recommendations ...Price and performance...Totally worth it. Thanks Techtesters
i always appreciate your videos, i do remember the initial t500 review you did years back it had some problems with reads if i recall? it got slower after certain time, was that fixed with an update?
What would you choose if building a 4x4TB RAID0 Thunderbolt 3/4 enclosure like the OWC 4M2? Due to the enclosure technology, speeds are limited to 2800MB/s so price/dollar and reliability are the more important metrics here, not speed. This enclosure will offload 4~8TB of data to it every day and be used to transcode video from it at the same time
we built couple of these past years (using Sonnet PCIe 4x4 card in Echo III box), exactly as you say limit is 2800 MB/s for the entire Thunderbolt bus, older 980 Pro were fine, but even something cheap and older DRAMless like SN570 is fine, I'd say whatever cheapest gets you most capacity is good enough, DRAM might be worthy since there won't be any HMB (host memory buffer) support, but high enough SLC cache might matter a lot as well, offloading such amounts of data would take around hour, so definitely don't underestimate cooling/thermals and sustained performance, if the budget allows, maybe even look into server/NAS tier of M.2 SSDs, they tend to have way higher write spec/warranty
Perfect timing! Edit - Looks like the T500 is at a decent price on Amazon UK at the moment £99 for 2TB... I'm a little sad that even with my staff discount at another store Amazon is still cheaper on just about everything (unless I wanted to shell out £20 more for the 990 pro. Anywho, thanks for the roundup, made choosing one a lot easier.
Gaming tests should also be about load screens in the game, not just loading the game to play the game. You should be testing how long it takes to fast travel or to load another instance while in game so we can have as seamless as possible gaming experience.
I will really try to get the T500 for my new PC-Build in April. It seems like it is worth the extra 30 euros compared to other good drives if I don´t get it on clearance. Thanx TT!!!
Thanks for this video. It's so useful. I will have to buy an SSD NVMe drive for a new build but it would be like a workstation PC. I guess I'll go with the Samsung 990 Pro
Pro tip to maximize your SSD speeds: look up how to do Over-Provisioning. Maybe Momemtum Cache (with crucial drives only that I'm aware of). It will significantly improve your SSD performance, the only downside is Over-Provisioning takes up around 1/10-1/12 of the SSD space. The lowest crucials can go is 7.76% and most others are higher than that. If you do set it at less than 7% it will only hinder the performance gain offered by over-provisioning.
just ordered a 990 pro 2tb from samsung directly for 159 yesterday (though now it is up to 169). They usually ship quickly and I like how the 980 pro has performed in my desktop. Also got 4 dollars off from accruing points from buying a phone this year. Corsair ram is also shipped quickly and has good prices from its home site. I prefer to order direct unless there is some sort of fire sale elsewhere, but typically they seem to have the best prices.
2TB Samsung 980 pro NVME sells for $119.99 with a $5 discount on newegg today. 1TB version sells for $118.95 with no discount. I have no idea what they are doing but i've bought me more than a couple.
I just bought the Samsung 990 Pro 4tb version w/heatsink for $309.56-almost the same price as my GPU, a 4060 Ti. I really needed to upgrade my SSD, and I'm glad this video confirmed it's the best all-around SSD. I think that's the most important category to be #1 in.
Seems like ur good with any drive towards the top. I just bought a sn850x last week and just saw this video. Looks like maybe I should of went with the crucial t500 or 999 pro but for the extra $10-$20 for the slight difference i don't think it worth me driving back to microcenter lol
Pretty much! Anything near the top in most graphs is 100% fine at the right price. Also remember that the drives you see are already the better options from 100+ tested.
@TechTesters thanks for this test. I don't think I've seen anything out there like this. Good content! Since I'm heading back to microcenter today to add warranty to my mobo I brought my sn850x and might swap it with the 999 pro or t500 since ive never really ran samsung or crucial ssds.
In my future build i’ll have a 990 Pro 1TB (90€ on sale rn) as main drive and SN850X 4TB (246€) for games. Should be solid choices right? Or should I go for the 2TB 990 Pro (On sale for 150€)
Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. I really appreciate the device recommendations and I'll use them -- perhaps even for Christmas shopping. (I'm starting to wonder if there is a way to install one of these drives on a single board computer.) You present very well and offer the sort of short list of useful SSD devices that reduces my workload. I can just pick from one of your recommendations and be happy. I would like to wish you, your family, and your employees (if you have any employees) a wonderful holiday season.
just got 4TB Kingston Fury Renegade, quick Black Friday sale, it was by far the cheapest 4TB NVME on the local market (237€), even cheaper than budget tier NV3 or P3 Plus
for those concerned about efficiency get the teamgroup mp44 or the mp44l runs cool and sips very little power on my laptop (acer swift go 14) as a 2nd ssd
If anyone is using a PS5 M.2 drive remember you can remove it and put straight inside another PS5 console such as the Slim or Pro M.2 bay, It won't delete the games, It will read the drive to test the speed and then link it to the console to sync it to your new console and psn account, I used my 4tb firecuda 530 to put inside a new PS5 and it worked without reformatting, It just took a minute to rebuild the database, Nice that it works rather than leaving the PS5 on rest mode to download all the games again,
Personally I've seen a bit too many M.2 drives die to just look for performance or price. The TBW is more important to me, though it's harder to really know if the manufacturers numbers are right. Currently the drive I am recommending is the Kingston Fury Renegade. The 2TB version has a TBW of 2000, one of the highest ratings for a 2TB drive currently. A lot of the older drives have a TBW as low as 600 and most 2TB drives is rated at around 1200 TBW. The Corsair Force MP600 and the PNY XLR8 CS3040 are two other drives with a TBW of 3600 which is real high for a 2TB drive, but they are also a bit more expensive while the Kingstone Fury Renegade is among the cheapest Gen4 drives available. Also I've seen complaints about the Corsair drives dying unexpectedly and at low TBW.
Would be really interested to know with the evo plus outperforming the 990 pro in some of these tests if it is an older 990 pro with 7th gen vnand vs the 8th gen used in the evo plus and newer 990 pro models. Great video, love to see these benchmarks!
The 4TB 990 PRO I tested recently didn't really perform significantly different (except in the consistency test), did Samsung say they upgraded the flash on their entire series?
@ I read that they upgraded the vnand from 7th gen to 8th on the pro models some time in 2023 which is the same as the evo plus. I was just wondering why the testing I’ve seen here and elsewhere on yt has the pro losing to the plus and thought that may be the reason. I also saw in tweaktown’s testing that the pro beats out the plus in benchmarks I’ve seen it losing on yt (such as 3dmark and pcmark).
I'm satisfied with the Samsung 990 Pro. I have a 2 TB with heatsink for my PS5 that i bought last year on Black Friday and this week, also Black Friday, 1 and 2 TB without heatsink for my next pc build.
I'd like to know what sort of costs are involved with having Dram on SSDs. I doubt they add a great deal to the bill of materials but I might be wrong therefore I'd like to know.
How is the predator gm7000? Looking at getting a 4tb for my m4 Mac mini enclosure. I will be using it for video and photo editing along with storage drive for apps and docs. Thanks!
hi, i want to buy a Kingston NV3 for a Ps5 , is it good? for me it doesnt have to be the best, just need it to fit in my ps5. i dont know if i should consider to buy also a heatsink... if you know something pls tell me😵
I'm currently struggling with a 250gb SSD and it always nearly full. Sure, I have a 1TB HDD on the side, but I want my games to load on the SSD. I'm really in the market for a at least 1TB SSD that load games relatively quickly
Since you're still using a 1TB HDD I assume you want something affordable-ish? I'd start by looking at a good value NVMe: 990 Evo Plus, SN5000, SN580, SN770, NV3, NM790, all good options.
Im using a Acer Predator GM700 2tb in my Gaming PC , 7400 read , 6400 write . Only $116 bucks for a 2tb rn. Has Dram and graphene heat pad. How come thats not considered 🧐
Models that come with heatsinks can be too expensive, but a seperate 3rd party heatsink usually doesn't cost more than few dollars or euros. It depends on your use case, but if you use your drive for more than some light data loading I think it's worth it.
@TechTesters Not really the same price here sis, the T500 kinda cheaper like 30-40$. So can you suggest the Samsung 980 Pro,T500? or something better than this (Gen 4)
I don't want to fuss since your content is well meant, but this is a strange comparison. 1TB, 2TB, & 4TB drives, even of the same product line from the same OEM perform differently. For example, the Samsung 990 Pro 1TB has 1GB of DDR4 cache. the 2TB & 4TB version has 2TB of cache. Doubling the cache adds a small amount of speed to that RAM, and means it will be faster for longer "bursts" of intensive IOPs. Windows write to that cache before writing to the drive itself - leaving the drive's controller to move the data from the cache to the NAND at a later time. For gaming, this is even more noticeable because of the Direct Storage API and how it affects the GPU. Your charts compares several 4TB models against 1TB models, and that will provide some misleading results. For example, the SK Hynix P41 Platinum 2TB, and the WD SN850x 2TB both outperform the Samsung 990 Pro in every benchmark, (and while drawing less power), but your chart has the 990 pro ahead in some cases because you are comparing the 2TB Samsung to the 1TB WD. Not a huge deal, just something you may want to address in the future. Keep up the good work.
Maybe if you compare the best to the worst. But I'd still take one with a dram cache and one that performs decently well at least, especially since you can always find a (non super budget) SSD for a reasonable price.
Great comparison! Too bad I watched this video right after assembling a PC with an MSI B650, a Ryzen 7600X, and a Crucial P3 Plus for the operating system. I don’t play games and mainly use the PC for office tasks. Can I stick with the Crucial, or would the Kingston NV3 be a better choice? Thanks, and happy holidays!
Nothing wrong with the P3 Plus. I doubt it's really worth buying anymore with some of the newer drives, but if you already have it I wouldn't bother switching it out or worrying about the (small) differences.
Excellent guide!! but a have a question, which SSD 8TB 2280 NVMe in general will you recommend me for my Steam Deck Oled? I’m about to upgrade the internal storage with a adapter but I don’t know which one is better 😅
@@TechTesterscorrect! but I know some people are modding their Steam decks with a 2280 adapter and I don’t know what the closest to be compatible on that format 😅
Which is the best of the best SSD you would recommend for running a full crypto node? I will need to download load over 50gb all at once in order to run a full Node. Also would be great if it’s compatible with Linux but not a priority, crypto node being the main priority. Just want the best of the best and fastest! Thank you so so much!!!
Thank you. I wish you had added both the Team Group T-FORCE G70 PRO, Kingston FURY Renegade, and Kingston KC3000 for comparison. But I am confused between Kingston FURY, Team Group T-FORCE G70 PRO, Samsung 990 pro and Kingston KC3000. What do you recommend for me? I have a 2022 tuf dash laptop that supports Gen 4 Thank you
Fury Renegade and KC3000 should still be in the graphs. They're still good all-round SSDs today and worth it if you find a good deal. Assuming the same price, I'd go 990 Pro > Fury Renegade < KC3000. But if the 990 Pro is expensive and the Fury is a lot cheaper, get that one, and so on,
I just bought the Hynix Platinum P41 2TB, but it only reaches 3GB/s in reading and writing, a very poor result nowhere near the figures you present. Did you collect the data from a working system?
It would be very difficult to get the data from a system that isn't working? ;) If you're seeing 3 GB/s, it sounds like you might be on a Gen3 connector?
Question to you all: If in my region (Australia), the Lexar nm970 and the Kingston KC3000 are both the same cost for 2TB... Which should I take? For use as a 2nd internal SSD for Games, edits and server media storage. Cheers!
I might pick up some 2 TB "2,5"" SSD for my Xbox One this black friday or cyber monday, if there are any actually good deals. Just have to look up the price history of the products... since they are usually jacked up before these sales just to make the sale look better, when it's actually not.
Can u make a chart for thermal performance! ? Personally I don't get comfortable with very high temperatures but unfortunately and fortnuately T500 is the only high end ssd That I found to be running cool
The only channel I watch for SSD recommendation thanks again got a t500 a couples years ago thanks to your recommendation nice too see it's still a respected drive.
"Got T500 a COUPLE YEARS AGO" - 😅 made my day. Crucial T500 went on sale in november 2023, reviewed here on Oct. 31st 2023.
@@Wlad1 Lol, was gonna say. I know time is flying but geez
LOL SAME
I have a T705, it is phenomenal. 17,000 read and 12,500 write. Very very good temps and extreme endurance performance. It can do GB/s disk write speeds on steam which I'm sure that most of us know that Steam throttles speeds. I had a 8000/5000 gen4 crucial prior that only saw 110MB/s disk speeds in steam and similar in other programs. It is on a huge sale for Black Friday right now in the U.S. I highly recommend getting one if you have the change.
Just picked up a 2tb t500 for £99, glad to hear it was recommended here
This video landed at the best time for me, I'm building a PC and I couldn't find any other place with a detailed SSD comparison like this!
The honesty in which the information has been gathered, sifted through and conveyed is a great treat to the viewer and so helpful. Nada seems to choose her words concisely and in short..... Cuts to the chase for all of us.... Thank You !!😃
I love how you consolidated all this testing data in one vid. Well done, Nada! Cheers!
Can i just say that you guys have grown leaps and bounds in the production value, professional presentation and extensive, in-depth testing. I still remember when this channel kind of popped out of nowhere. It was really well put together back then, but seems to me that you have surpassed every other tech channel by now. Congrats and keep it up. Also, pls never stop these GPU model comparison videos, they are a godsend. Groetjes!
Thank you for doing a segment on 2230 drives!
Some notes:
The Corsair MP600 is available in 2 variants; the Mini and the Core Mini.
The Mini uses TLC NAND and the Core Mini uses QLC NAND. There's a fair bit of difference in speed and durability. TBW of 1200 TB for the Mini and 450 TB for the Core Mini.
Also, you mention the Sabrent Rocket being "the same hardware as the Corsair", however the Corsair MP600 Mini shown in the video uses TLC NAND but the Sabrent uses QLC NAND, like the MP600 Core Mini.
Lastly, I want to mention that for use in a Steam Deck or similar, speed is not the primary concern. Any of the 2 TB 2230 drives I've seen can do speeds well beyond what the rest of mobile hardware like the Steam Deck or the ROG Ally (X) can saturate. Power consumption and thermals are way more important for such small handheld devices IMMO.
Other than that; Great roundup!
As I see you have great knowledge, which one would you recommend. My budget is tight,60€
@@drigfamous For 60€ I would go for the Lexar NM620 1 TB. But the WD Blue SN580 or the Team Group MP33 1 TB drives are also good..
@@Terr-E thank you very much bro!
I love nothing more than watching your well presented and detailed tech videos. I never skip a second! Many thanks and wish you the best always 🌻❤
Now I'm happy there were no good SSD deals on BF in Romania because I get to watch this video before making a purchase
i got myself an Crucial T500 2TB after watching your review im so happy with it
All my SSDs in my primary system have been Samsung. Started with sata ssd from samsung years ago, now my main drive is 990 pro and a 970 evo plus as secondary.
I installed a 4TB 990 Pro in my laptop. Blazing fast drive.
Don't be blinded by brands though!
Samsung have a long track record with SSD drives, I used them for a decade moving on from early adoption of "value" SSD drives in 64 & 128 GB capacities.
Byt early last year I switched away and both fast PCIE4 Kingston drives and PCIE3 value drives by Crucial have performed well since. Samsung had value & reliability issues due to firmware on Pro drives in 2023.
Now I found a good BF deal on a 990 Pro so as Marta said can benefit from the convenience of the Magician software as an upgrade on my personal workstation. It's nice to see that decision confirmed by Marta's testing.
Been rocking a 1TB KC3000 for 18 months and I'm happy with it. Performance has been impressive with no letdowns *touch wood*. It's also cheap locally at AUD99.
With the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, now is a great time to bag a bargain. I'm tossing up between a KC3000 2TB and NV3 2TB as secondary storage for some games, photos and home video library. Performance (and DRAM) or price? Decisions, decisions...
Why not both? 🤷♂️
For my Windows 11 PC, I've found a mix of 1TB T500 plus 4TB NM790 to be a great mix. Having the DRAM cache for Windows OS, utilities, applications, game launchers, etc. is a big benefit. The lack of DRAM cache on the NM790 doesn't really impact gaming (for me) as installing/patching games on it isn't all that frequent or improved all that much by the cache, whereas reading from it to play those games isn't improved by the cache so capacity per $ was more important.
For my PS5Pro, a 2TB SN850X (with heatsink) works great, was actually cheaper than the same drive WITHOUT heatsink!
the one stop shop for ssd comparisons. im the tech friend in my group and when people ask me for advice for m.2 ssds i link them this chanel. good work guys. en beste wensen! :D
p.s i actually bought a SN770 about a year ago based on your advice and i love it :D
The crucial t500 is a great pick. I have a 1&2tb. For value team group mp33 is a good pick also. Both of these for gaming.
I bought my two WD 850 (in the last Amazon sale in August) based mostly on your recommendation and absolutely love the performance. DCS load up times went from 1min 32sec with my HDD to 30sec with the WD850 and no more in-game micro-stutters, smooove as butter. Thank you Nada
From the thumbnail, I knew the "SK Hynix" would be amongst the pile! In 2002, I got my first PC with the Pentium 4 processor running Windows 98. The 128 MB memory was from SK Hynix! I still have that PC, not in working condition but as a souvenir!
Building a new 9900X/X670E system so revisited the list. With current USA pricing at the very end of 2024, the P41 Platinum 1TB seemed like the best value.
I really miss your round-up. The best on the youtube landscape!!!
big fan of the sk hynix p41, sk hynix and teamgroup are the only brands i've bought from that haven't had a drive fail on me
Kingston KC3000 is a very reliable performer and quite often very well priced.
I must say this video was so good and informative, I had to watch it twice! Thank you!
Thanks for the update. Just got a 130usd local sell for the lpx mp600 since most don't have good ratings. Happy with mine now
FTI the Solidigm P44 Pro is the same drive as the SK Hynix P41, just with slightly different firmware. So that's another option for "all-around" drive and may have better availability depending on where you are.
Will do my best to grab one :)
Thanks, Nada! Your performance rankings are second to none!
Confusions erased.This is the best comparison video of SSD's. Last year I bought WD Black SN 850x on your recommendations ...Price and performance...Totally worth it. Thanks Techtesters
Best SSD reviews in the business
Awesome data collection and summary. Well done
Amazing video as always. Thank you!!
Thanks for the good Update.
i always appreciate your videos, i do remember the initial t500 review you did years back it had some problems with reads if i recall? it got slower after certain time, was that fixed with an update?
What would you choose if building a 4x4TB RAID0 Thunderbolt 3/4 enclosure like the OWC 4M2?
Due to the enclosure technology, speeds are limited to 2800MB/s so price/dollar and reliability are the more important metrics here, not speed.
This enclosure will offload 4~8TB of data to it every day and be used to transcode video from it at the same time
we built couple of these past years (using Sonnet PCIe 4x4 card in Echo III box),
exactly as you say limit is 2800 MB/s for the entire Thunderbolt bus,
older 980 Pro were fine, but even something cheap and older DRAMless like SN570 is fine,
I'd say whatever cheapest gets you most capacity is good enough,
DRAM might be worthy since there won't be any HMB (host memory buffer) support, but high enough SLC cache might matter a lot as well,
offloading such amounts of data would take around hour, so definitely don't underestimate cooling/thermals and sustained performance, if the budget allows, maybe even look into server/NAS tier of M.2 SSDs, they tend to have way higher write spec/warranty
Perfect timing!
Edit - Looks like the T500 is at a decent price on Amazon UK at the moment £99 for 2TB... I'm a little sad that even with my staff discount at another store Amazon is still cheaper on just about everything (unless I wanted to shell out £20 more for the 990 pro.
Anywho, thanks for the roundup, made choosing one a lot easier.
Gaming tests should also be about load screens in the game, not just loading the game to play the game. You should be testing how long it takes to fast travel or to load another instance while in game so we can have as seamless as possible gaming experience.
I will really try to get the T500 for my new PC-Build in April. It seems like it is worth the extra 30 euros compared to other good drives if I don´t get it on clearance. Thanx TT!!!
This is my favourite channel for nvme information thanks
Videos like these but for every component would be a huge time saver
I'll think about doing it for more topics!
Thank you so much for doing all this work.
This was really helpful!
I've been using skhynix p41 2tb since last BFCM and this was the best purchase so far
Good choice :)
Thanks for this video. It's so useful. I will have to buy an SSD NVMe drive for a new build but it would be like a workstation PC. I guess I'll go with the Samsung 990 Pro
Pro tip to maximize your SSD speeds: look up how to do Over-Provisioning. Maybe Momemtum Cache (with crucial drives only that I'm aware of). It will significantly improve your SSD performance, the only downside is Over-Provisioning takes up around 1/10-1/12 of the SSD space. The lowest crucials can go is 7.76% and most others are higher than that. If you do set it at less than 7% it will only hinder the performance gain offered by over-provisioning.
Not a bad tip, or you can also use the "old" rule to just never fill your SSD.
just ordered a 990 pro 2tb from samsung directly for 159 yesterday (though now it is up to 169). They usually ship quickly and I like how the 980 pro has performed in my desktop. Also got 4 dollars off from accruing points from buying a phone this year. Corsair ram is also shipped quickly and has good prices from its home site. I prefer to order direct unless there is some sort of fire sale elsewhere, but typically they seem to have the best prices.
2TB Samsung 980 pro NVME sells for $119.99 with a $5 discount on newegg today. 1TB version sells for $118.95 with no discount. I have no idea what they are doing but i've bought me more than a couple.
Stuff like that happens a lot with SSDs, you really need to check prices constantly :-/
Can we also have a video for the best 2.5 inch SATA SSD ?
You might want to try a retro hardware channel for that one 😀
Not much development has been done on that front, so the old recs are still valid.
@@warschonda8136 xD
❤️This Channel-great job👏
Bravo pour se travail complet et riche . Merci
I just bought the Samsung 990 Pro 4tb version w/heatsink for $309.56-almost the same price as my GPU, a 4060 Ti. I really needed to upgrade my SSD, and I'm glad this video confirmed it's the best all-around SSD. I think that's the most important category to be #1 in.
Enjoy the lovely SSD :)
I also recommend adding a category for best NVMe SSDs for laptops (great power management, particularly very low power on idle).
Working on that! :)
Should i buy two 2tb t500 or one 4tb 990 pro for only gaming? 990 pro is a little bit cheaper than two 2tb t500.
I'd always take 1x 4TB over 2x 2TB.
You make a best videos, you need a great appreciation for making so expensive video, previously i saw RTX video as well it was also informative.
I'm rocking a KC3000. It's a well balanced and well priced.
Where is the Crucial T705 2tb on the list? Cream of the crop atm until the Samsung PM9E1 arrives to maybe challenge it.
Right? 705 should have been in this horse race.
Was supposed to get it in last week, but it's delayed. Hopefully soon. Just didn't want to wait with all the deals going on now.
I have a 4tb T700 and two 2tb P3 Plus. I'm very happy with them
Seems like ur good with any drive towards the top. I just bought a sn850x last week and just saw this video. Looks like maybe I should of went with the crucial t500 or 999 pro but for the extra $10-$20 for the slight difference i don't think it worth me driving back to microcenter lol
Pretty much! Anything near the top in most graphs is 100% fine at the right price. Also remember that the drives you see are already the better options from 100+ tested.
@TechTesters thanks for this test. I don't think I've seen anything out there like this. Good content! Since I'm heading back to microcenter today to add warranty to my mobo I brought my sn850x and might swap it with the 999 pro or t500 since ive never really ran samsung or crucial ssds.
which one is better please teamgroup mp44 or NV3
In my future build i’ll have a 990 Pro 1TB (90€ on sale rn) as main drive and SN850X 4TB (246€) for games. Should be solid choices right? Or should I go for the 2TB 990 Pro (On sale for 150€)
Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. I really appreciate the device recommendations and I'll use them -- perhaps even for Christmas shopping. (I'm starting to wonder if there is a way to install one of these drives on a single board computer.) You present very well and offer the sort of short list of useful SSD devices that reduces my workload. I can just pick from one of your recommendations and be happy. I would like to wish you, your family, and your employees (if you have any employees) a wonderful holiday season.
just got 4TB Kingston Fury Renegade, quick Black Friday sale, it was by far the cheapest 4TB NVME on the local market (237€), even cheaper than budget tier NV3 or P3 Plus
Great all-round SSD, enjoy it!
Nutze aktuell Kingston Fury Renegade und bin absolut zufrieden 👍🏻
Still a great SSD and a good option, just surpassed by some newer drives tbh
Where is the pinned comment with the discounted links 😢
for those concerned about efficiency get the teamgroup mp44 or the mp44l
runs cool and sips very little power on my laptop (acer swift go 14) as a 2nd ssd
Thank you for making this awesome video.
Is the Corsair MP700 pro SE better then the Crucial T705 in gaming?
I'll find out soon, T705 just arrived :)
Hp fx900 pro
Acer predator gm7000
These are great ssds
4tb for $200 right now
I bought 4TB Samsung 990 Pro after watching this channel , a solid recommendation 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Enjoy it!
If anyone is using a PS5 M.2 drive remember you can remove it and put straight inside another PS5 console such as the Slim or Pro M.2 bay,
It won't delete the games, It will read the drive to test the speed and then link it to the console to sync it to your new console and psn account,
I used my 4tb firecuda 530 to put inside a new PS5 and it worked without reformatting, It just took a minute to rebuild the database,
Nice that it works rather than leaving the PS5 on rest mode to download all the games again,
What do you think WD black sn850x 8tb? Do you recommend to buy?
Personally I've seen a bit too many M.2 drives die to just look for performance or price. The TBW is more important to me, though it's harder to really know if the manufacturers numbers are right. Currently the drive I am recommending is the Kingston Fury Renegade. The 2TB version has a TBW of 2000, one of the highest ratings for a 2TB drive currently. A lot of the older drives have a TBW as low as 600 and most 2TB drives is rated at around 1200 TBW.
The Corsair Force MP600 and the PNY XLR8 CS3040 are two other drives with a TBW of 3600 which is real high for a 2TB drive, but they are also a bit more expensive while the Kingstone Fury Renegade is among the cheapest Gen4 drives available. Also I've seen complaints about the Corsair drives dying unexpectedly and at low TBW.
Thank you so much for your info it's really helpful.
Currently in the process of building a PC that'll use a Corsair MP700 Pro 1 TB as the boot drive, and a Samsung 990 Pro 4 TB as a mass storage drive.
Would be really interested to know with the evo plus outperforming the 990 pro in some of these tests if it is an older 990 pro with 7th gen vnand vs the 8th gen used in the evo plus and newer 990 pro models. Great video, love to see these benchmarks!
The 4TB 990 PRO I tested recently didn't really perform significantly different (except in the consistency test), did Samsung say they upgraded the flash on their entire series?
@ I read that they upgraded the vnand from 7th gen to 8th on the pro models some time in 2023 which is the same as the evo plus. I was just wondering why the testing I’ve seen here and elsewhere on yt has the pro losing to the plus and thought that may be the reason. I also saw in tweaktown’s testing that the pro beats out the plus in benchmarks I’ve seen it losing on yt (such as 3dmark and pcmark).
I'm satisfied with the Samsung 990 Pro. I have a 2 TB with heatsink for my PS5 that i bought last year on Black Friday and this week, also Black Friday, 1 and 2 TB without heatsink for my next pc build.
I'd like to know what sort of costs are involved with having Dram on SSDs. I doubt they add a great deal to the bill of materials but I might be wrong therefore I'd like to know.
How is the predator gm7000? Looking at getting a 4tb for my m4 Mac mini enclosure. I will be using it for video and photo editing along with storage drive for apps and docs.
Thanks!
@@gregorycarroll3793 it's practically the same as the Lexar NM790 (same contoller, flash, etc.).
hi, i want to buy a Kingston NV3 for a Ps5 , is it good? for me it doesnt have to be the best, just need it to fit in my ps5. i dont know if i should consider to buy also a heatsink... if you know something pls tell me😵
so 990 pro for editing/work station and T500 for gaming? will either of these do well as a boot drive at 1tb?
I just ordered the WD Blue SN5000 4tb for my data dump SSD. Great price at 199 on Amazon
I'm currently struggling with a 250gb SSD and it always nearly full. Sure, I have a 1TB HDD on the side, but I want my games to load on the SSD. I'm really in the market for a at least 1TB SSD that load games relatively quickly
Since you're still using a 1TB HDD I assume you want something affordable-ish? I'd start by looking at a good value NVMe: 990 Evo Plus, SN5000, SN580, SN770, NV3, NM790, all good options.
What a nice video ❤
Thank you! 🙂
Im using a Acer Predator GM700 2tb in my Gaming PC , 7400 read , 6400 write . Only $116 bucks for a 2tb rn. Has Dram and graphene heat pad. How come thats not considered 🧐
thank you for doing this
did you ever use the teamgroup a440 cardea 2tb gen 4 drive?
I currently have an SN 770. Do you think upgrading to 990 Pro or 850X will be better as an OS and gaming drive?
I would not upgrade a perfectly fine SN770 :) Unless you really need more storage?
Bedankt Tech Mama voor de geweldige M.2 NVMe SSD's voor PC en PlayStation 5 🥳🤓👍
Many mini computers use the 2242 format. Any recommendations for that format?
Do you think a heatsink is really needed for ssd's on a pc like the WD_Black. Especially when they cost quite a bit more than one without it?
Models that come with heatsinks can be too expensive, but a seperate 3rd party heatsink usually doesn't cost more than few dollars or euros. It depends on your use case, but if you use your drive for more than some light data loading I think it's worth it.
Whats better between T500 vs renegade?
At the same price: T500
@TechTesters Not really the same price here sis, the T500 kinda cheaper like 30-40$. So can you suggest the Samsung 980 Pro,T500? or something better than this (Gen 4)
I don't want to fuss since your content is well meant, but this is a strange comparison. 1TB, 2TB, & 4TB drives, even of the same product line from the same OEM perform differently. For example, the Samsung 990 Pro 1TB has 1GB of DDR4 cache. the 2TB & 4TB version has 2TB of cache. Doubling the cache adds a small amount of speed to that RAM, and means it will be faster for longer "bursts" of intensive IOPs. Windows write to that cache before writing to the drive itself - leaving the drive's controller to move the data from the cache to the NAND at a later time. For gaming, this is even more noticeable because of the Direct Storage API and how it affects the GPU.
Your charts compares several 4TB models against 1TB models, and that will provide some misleading results. For example, the SK Hynix P41 Platinum 2TB, and the WD SN850x 2TB both outperform the Samsung 990 Pro in every benchmark, (and while drawing less power), but your chart has the 990 pro ahead in some cases because you are comparing the 2TB Samsung to the 1TB WD.
Not a huge deal, just something you may want to address in the future. Keep up the good work.
For PS5 there won't be any diferrence in loading time between all of them, right?
Maybe if you compare the best to the worst. But I'd still take one with a dram cache and one that performs decently well at least, especially since you can always find a (non super budget) SSD for a reasonable price.
Great comparison! Too bad I watched this video right after assembling a PC with an MSI B650, a Ryzen 7600X, and a Crucial P3 Plus for the operating system. I don’t play games and mainly use the PC for office tasks. Can I stick with the Crucial, or would the Kingston NV3 be a better choice? Thanks, and happy holidays!
Nothing wrong with the P3 Plus. I doubt it's really worth buying anymore with some of the newer drives, but if you already have it I wouldn't bother switching it out or worrying about the (small) differences.
@TechTesters Thanks for the reply. Happy new year.
Excellent guide!! but a have a question, which SSD 8TB 2280 NVMe in general will you recommend me for my Steam Deck Oled? I’m about to upgrade the internal storage with a adapter but I don’t know which one is better 😅
Pretty sure the SD OLED is still a 2230 SSD?
@@TechTesterscorrect! but I know some people are modding their Steam decks with a 2280 adapter and I don’t know what the closest to be compatible on that format 😅
what is the best budget SSD that has DRAM?
Which is the best of the best SSD you would recommend for running a full crypto node? I will need to download load over 50gb all at once in order to run a full Node.
Also would be great if it’s compatible with Linux but not a priority, crypto node being the main priority. Just want the best of the best and fastest!
Thank you so so much!!!
Gen 5 SSDs are crazy fast yet I haven't seen anyone do a test on a raid, i know there is a PCIE lane limit bandwidth yet I wanna see it
8TB is best still waiting for lower cost. Great review ❤.
Agreed! :D And thank you!
Thank you. I wish you had added both the Team Group T-FORCE G70 PRO, Kingston FURY Renegade, and Kingston KC3000 for comparison.
But I am confused between Kingston FURY, Team Group T-FORCE G70 PRO, Samsung 990 pro and Kingston KC3000. What do you recommend for me? I have a 2022 tuf dash laptop that supports Gen 4
Thank you
Fury Renegade and KC3000 should still be in the graphs. They're still good all-round SSDs today and worth it if you find a good deal. Assuming the same price, I'd go 990 Pro > Fury Renegade < KC3000. But if the 990 Pro is expensive and the Fury is a lot cheaper, get that one, and so on,
I just bought the Hynix Platinum P41 2TB, but it only reaches 3GB/s in reading and writing, a very poor result nowhere near the figures you present. Did you collect the data from a working system?
It would be very difficult to get the data from a system that isn't working? ;)
If you're seeing 3 GB/s, it sounds like you might be on a Gen3 connector?
Question to you all: If in my region (Australia), the Lexar nm970 and the Kingston KC3000 are both the same cost for 2TB... Which should I take? For use as a 2nd internal SSD for Games, edits and server media storage. Cheers!
In that case I would pick the KC3000. The nm790 does need to be cheaper for it to make sense.
@@TechTesters Thank you! I actually missed this reply... but made the same call. The Kingston has been stellar so far, much appreciated 👌🏻
I might pick up some 2 TB "2,5"" SSD for my Xbox One this black friday or cyber monday, if there are any actually good deals.
Just have to look up the price history of the products... since they are usually jacked up before these sales just to make the sale look better, when it's actually not.
Can u make a chart for thermal performance! ?
Personally I don't get comfortable with very high temperatures but unfortunately and fortnuately T500 is the only high end ssd That I found to be running cool