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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > SSD Thread: (its good, ignore the anime)
 
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Previa_fun
Nov 10, 2004

 I bought a prebuilt system this summer that came with a single HDD, and I'm looking to upgrade to an SSD. Really all I do is play games and browse the web; in that use case is an m.2 drive really worth it over a SATA drive? I'm looking at 1tb drives if it makes a difference. It'd be an OS boot drive plus a few games, media would be kept on the HDD.

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Previa_fun
Nov 10, 2004

Atomizer posted:

Advice

isndl posted:

More advice

The mobo is an MSI B360M and from what I understand it supports m.2 NVMe, but from what you guys have said I'll just look for the best Gb/$$ ratio and probably get that. I don't need blazing speed, I just want fast boot times into Windows and short load times.

Are there any brands or models to definitely avoid these days?

Previa_fun fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Oct 25, 2018

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Previa_fun
Nov 10, 2004

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Previa_fun
Nov 10, 2004

BIG HEADLINE posted:

Pretty much all SSDs nowadays don't suck. Even ADATA makes a well-reviewed and regarded NVMe drive, and five years ago I wouldn't have put one of their drives in a "grandma" PC.

Crucial, Samsung, Western Digital (now that they've had ample time to finish the acquisition and absorption of Sandisk)...they're all decent. Just have a bias for drives that advertise 3D NAND. Also, if you'll be using this drive on a PC without a battery backup, my suggestion would be the Crucial MX500 as it's one of the only consumer-level drives out there with power outage protection built in. If a drive has a five year warranty, you're likely fine - if it's got a three year warranty, that means it probably carries a lower TBW (TeraBytes Written) rating and could fail sooner, but people have done tests, and even poo poo/average-grade SSDs have pretty stellar longevity.

The Crucial MX500 looks like a good deal, thanks!

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