Hey,
I'm building a desktop gaming PC and I was thinking of buying a really cheap 120gb SSD as a side disk onto which I would install games that I would like to load quickly (my OS is already installed to another premium SSD). I also have a traditional HDD to store stuff, so this "side SSD" would really be only for a couple of most-played games and is meant to make a difference over the HDD in loading time. So, the question is, which one would do the job and which likely not?
Right now I'm eyeing these:
Kingston SSDNow V300
SanDisk z400s
Sandisk Plus (not the Ultra Plus!)
Transcend SSD370
According to userbenchmark, Transcend and z400s have the fastest 4k random reads, but in sequential read the Sandisk Plus catches up. Both of the Sandisks have twice as good mean time between failure rate, so they should be more reliable in the long run (I'm also thinking that I want to keep it in running condition as long as possible, so I don't need to be buying a replacement every once in a while).
However, according to some reviews the Transcend disc doesn't support slumber power modes (HIPM+DIPM) so that would mean that my PC should never go into sleep or hibernation mode? So if it does after being idle for a long time, I would need to reboot to play those games? I'm not sure but I think the Sandisk Plus has similar issues.
Also another thing I'm wondering about and not finding enough relevant infromation on, for comparison, is that are all of these able to do their own garbage collection or some not? I don't want to be manually trimming the disc every day...
So, what advantages would these dirt-cheap discs have against each other?
Btw, in my region, for price comparison, Sandisk Plus is the cheapest, followed by Kingston, Transcend and finally z400s.
-Yari
I'm building a desktop gaming PC and I was thinking of buying a really cheap 120gb SSD as a side disk onto which I would install games that I would like to load quickly (my OS is already installed to another premium SSD). I also have a traditional HDD to store stuff, so this "side SSD" would really be only for a couple of most-played games and is meant to make a difference over the HDD in loading time. So, the question is, which one would do the job and which likely not?
Right now I'm eyeing these:
Kingston SSDNow V300
SanDisk z400s
Sandisk Plus (not the Ultra Plus!)
Transcend SSD370
According to userbenchmark, Transcend and z400s have the fastest 4k random reads, but in sequential read the Sandisk Plus catches up. Both of the Sandisks have twice as good mean time between failure rate, so they should be more reliable in the long run (I'm also thinking that I want to keep it in running condition as long as possible, so I don't need to be buying a replacement every once in a while).
However, according to some reviews the Transcend disc doesn't support slumber power modes (HIPM+DIPM) so that would mean that my PC should never go into sleep or hibernation mode? So if it does after being idle for a long time, I would need to reboot to play those games? I'm not sure but I think the Sandisk Plus has similar issues.
Also another thing I'm wondering about and not finding enough relevant infromation on, for comparison, is that are all of these able to do their own garbage collection or some not? I don't want to be manually trimming the disc every day...
So, what advantages would these dirt-cheap discs have against each other?
Btw, in my region, for price comparison, Sandisk Plus is the cheapest, followed by Kingston, Transcend and finally z400s.
-Yari
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