Question SSD for game storage/steam library

[magicbf]

Hello, i'm looking for some SSD, which is at least 480GB to store some of my games and steam library. I don't care if it's SATA or M.2
I'm assuming that i don't need DRAM? Would something like Samsung 980 be fine, or i can possibly go for some cheap SATA with even higher capacity?

 

[KyaraM]

If it's just games, you can grab any SSD imho. Write will be far less important than read. I recently grabed a Kingston NV2 for my games. Not a great drive by any measure, but good and fast enough for the games I don't play every day. Cost me 50 bucks for 1 TB. If you want something of better quality, a Crucial P3/P5 should be good, or a WD Blue SN570 maybe. That one seems to be a pretty decent PCIE 3.0 drive and should be plenty enough for your use. Comes in 2 TB as well iirc.

 

[logainofhades]

1tb are so cheap, going less doesn't make much sense, especially with how big games are getting these days.

 

[Zerk2012]

Hello, i'm looking for some SSD, which is at least 480GB to store some of my games and steam library. I don't care if it's SATA or M.2
I'm assuming that i don't need DRAM? Would something like Samsung 980 be fine, or i can possibly go for some cheap SATA with even higher capacity?

If your in the US good price on this drive.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078211KBB/ref=twister_B0BQ5JTZ89?_encoding=UTF8&th=1

 

[magicbf]

If your in the US good price on this drive.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078211KBB/ref=twister_B0BQ5JTZ89?_encoding=UTF8&th=1

sadly no, in my country 500GB model costs even more than this 1TB model

 

[Zerk2012]

sadly no, in my country 500GB model costs even more than this 1TB model

What country?

 

[magicbf]

If it's just games, you can grab any SSD imho. Write will be far less important than read. I recently grabed a Kingston NV2 for my games. Not a great drive by any measure, but good and fast enough for the games I don't play every day. Cost me 50 bucks for 1 TB. If you want something of better quality, a Crucial P3/P5 should be good, or a WD Blue SN570 maybe. That one seems to be a pretty decent PCIE 3.0 drive and should be plenty enough for your use. Comes in 2 TB as well iirc.

that's what i thought, because i basically want to get much faster loads in some demanding titles, which take ages to load from HDD and my previous storage SSD died (WD Black SN850), so now i don't wanna bother getting anything expensive like that anyway...

 

[magicbf]

What country?

Slovakia...

few options i have are either Samsung 980, Solidigm P41 Plus, WD Blue SN570 or simply just some cheap SSDs like Crucial BX500 and WD Green - all of them in 500GB capacity