Question M.2 NvME PCIe: recommendations about a specific manufacturer

[Manuel Jordan]

Hello Friends

According with your experience in general for M.2 NvME PCIe for 512GB, 1TB and 2TB

Do you have a especial recommendation about a specific manufacturer?

It about performance, failures (time of Live)

Thanks in advance

 

[Lutfij]

I've worked with Samsung, Klevv, TeamGroup and Solidigm. What is the make and model of your motherboard and what will the drive in question be used for? Where are you located, what is your budget for your drive and what is your preferred site for purchase?

It about performance, failures (time of Live)
They are relative terms, what are you looking for specifically out of your NVMe drive purchase?

 

[triplex1]

Depending on the size.
What system are you going to put it on?
And what are you going to do?

 

[Manuel Jordan]

Hello Friends

As an introduction, around 2003/2005/2010 the time of life for a HDD starting from 80GB to 320GB had a short time life (1.5 yrs to 3yrs) against 30GB, 50GB, 60GB. I changed 6 HDD within their warranty. Same experience with 2 friends too.

I want to know if it happens in some way for SSD and M.2 NvME PCIe about 2TB to up
Yes, I know it is other technology but I want to know if is very safe has SSD/M.2 starting with 2TB

Of course, it based in your own experience and friends/family too

Thanks in advance

 

[Lafong]

Hello Friends

According with your experience in general for M.2 NvME PCIe for 512GB, 1TB and 2TB

Do you have a especial recommendation about a specific manufacturer?

It about performance, failures (time of Live)

Thanks in advance

Failures: you need luck more than you need anecdotes from the Internet. What is there to be learned from a random "I've had good luck with brand X"?

Performance: probably a lot less variation than you'd expect, unless you are hypnotized by benchmarks. Many are.

 

[Rokinamerica]

I have an 8-year-old 500GB PNY in my (8 Y.O.) laptop, an equally old Corsair 500GB in my equally old backup desktop both used at least weekly since they stopped being my daily drivers for work from 2016 to 2021, and a nearly 4-year-old Samsung 1TB in my daily WFH desktop, as well as a 4-year-old Samsung 500GB in an external drive with my music backups. All still work great.

I still make sure all critical data is backed up in several different ways though, because there is always going to be that 1st time a drive fails.

 

[CountMike]

Similar to RAM, there are literary hundreds of SSD "manufacturers " but only few real manufacturers of actual chips built in. Beside those that just use and combine chips from main chip manufactures some just buy whole thing and stick their labels and I have seen some that didn't even bother to flash firmware with their name and others just flash firmware in their name. Right now I have an obvious Samsung 960 evo + with sticker and firmware that reads HP.

 

[Manuel Jordan]

Hello Friends

Some time ago I found a friend of the university, he told me he has a friend that manages a store about computers in other city. It was requested to him to fix the laptop of his sister. The point is:

The salesman/technical guy told him that Kingston about SSD in general (I am assuming even M.2 too) is slower than Western Digital and other manufacturers.

I always bought Kingston for pendrive and RAM. Zero problems. I have the intention to buy a M.2 NVMe but the friend's commentary is in some way a concern.

Pls could you share thoughts? Of course based in your experience/friends/family/co-workers

Thanks in advance

 

[Manuel Jordan]

Hello Friends

Do you have experience for Patriot about performance and durability?
It for SSD 2.5'' and MVM3 PCIe?

Thanks in advance

 

[Lutfij]

I've merged your 3(yes 3) threads into one, please stop spamming our forums with the same thread with minute changes. Sticking to one thread helps keep thoughts in one place.

 

[Aeacus]

I always bought Kingston for pendrive and RAM. Zero problems.

I too am using Kingston USB thumb drives and RAM. Both are also my #1 choice regarding those.

I have the intention to buy a M.2 NVMe but the friend's commentary is in some way a concern.

Read a review.

"Value" options of Kingston SATA SSDs are best to be avoided. Like Kingston SSDNow Vxxx-series.
Review: https://hardwaresecrets.com/kingston-a400-120-gib-ssd-review/

But A400 is good. So is HyperX 3K (latter drive i have in use myself).

But when it comes to M.2 drives, there are bad ones, like;
NV1 - bad choice; review: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/kingston-nv1-1-tb/
NV2 - avoid; review: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/kingston-nv2-ssd
NV3 - poor choice; review: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/kingston-nv3-ssd-review

But also good ones, like;
KC3000 - a bit expensive; review: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/kingston-kc3000-m2-ssd-review
Fury Renegade - decent; review: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/kingston-fury-renegade
Predator - high power draw; review: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/kingston-hyperx-predator-480gb-m2-pcie-ssd,4113.html
A1000 - only "meh"; review: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/kingston-a1000-nvme-ssd,5631.html
A2000 - solid option; review: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/kingston-a2000-m2-nvme-ssd
Etc.

If you want solid performance, you can't go wrong with Samsung.

With Kingston SSDs (SATA and M.2 NVMe), do read a review before buying one.

 

[Manuel Jordan]

Lutfij:

Understood

Aeacus:

Huge thanks for the set of links. I am going to read them

 

[Manuel Jordan]

To the audience

Some thoughts about the PNY manufacturer?

Thank You

 

[Aeacus]

When it comes to M.2 SSDs, only good ones are Samsung and Western Digital. Both are dedicated storage media producers. All other brands have issue or more.

PNY is most known making GPUs. PNY is one of the smaller/lesser GPU makers. Big ones are: Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and Sapphire. (Well, EVGA too but EVGA ended their GPU manufacture.) Smaller ones include: Zotac, PNY, Colorful, PowerColor, Inno3D etc.

PNY SSDs are mostly budget ones. Good if you are willing only to pay peanuts and can handle monkeys afterwards.

For better idea, i'll say it again:

Read a review.

E.g PNY CS2140: https://www.pcworld.com/article/620019/pny-cs2140-nvme-ssd-review-fast-everyday-pcie-3-storage.html
or PNY CS3030: https://goughlui.com/2022/07/31/quick-review-pny-xlr8-cs3030-2tb-pcie-gen3x4-nvme-ssd/
or PNY CS3140: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pny-xlr8-cs3140-ssd-review
or PNY CS3150: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/pny-cs3150-1tb-ssd-review

 

[Manuel Jordan]

Aeacus:

As usual, Huge thanks for the set of links. I am going to read them