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I've upgraded my computer with Ryzen 5700x processor, an MSI B550 motherboard, and 16GB of Corsair RAM. However, I'm still holding onto my older Samsung SATA SSD and a 12-year-old Seagate HDD, 2TB. Looking to unlock the true power of my new setup, I'm seeking recommendations for the best SSD upgrade within a budget of ₹10,000. What SSD would you suggest for optimal performance and compatibility with my current system? I'm open to exploring various options, so feel free to suggest different types and capacities based on my needs.
 
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Hey there,

Which exact MSI mobo do you have? This will help us with a solution.

To start with, ditch the 12 year old drive, and get that data on to something else. It's a surprise it hasn't died on you yet.

Without knowing the details of your mobo, I'd suggest a Samsun 970 Evo, if your mobo is limited to PCIe 3, and if it's PCIe 4 then I'd go for an Samsung 980 Pro, or a WD SN850x. 2 TB will be good enough. You would keep the new faster drive as boot OS, and have your old SSD as a game drive or back up.

The new drive won't really impact on boot times, but will really accelerate load times for games in between levels, depending on how you set it up.
 
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Roland Of Gilead said:
Hey there,

Which exact MSI mobo do you have? This will help us with a solution.

To start with, ditch the 12 year old drive, and get that data on to something else. It's a surprise it hasn't died on you yet.

Without knowing the details of your mobo, I'd suggest a Samsun 970 Evo, if your mobo is limited to PCIe 3, and if it's PCIe 4 then I'd go for an Samsung 980 Pro, or a WD SN850x. 2 TB will be good enough. You would keep the new faster drive as boot OS, and have your old SSD as a game drive or back up.

The new drive won't really impact on boot times, but will really accelerate load times for games in between levels, depending on how you set it up.
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Hi,

Thank you for your reply. My current mobo is MSI 550. Sharing my mobo link : https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B550M-PRO-VDH-WIFI
 
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Do not be much swayed by vendor synthetic SSD benchmarks.
They are done with apps that push the SSD to it's maximum using queue lengths of 30 or so.
Most desktop users will do one or two things at a time, so they will see queue lengths of one or two.
What really counts is the response times, particularly for small random I/O. That is what the os does mostly.
For that, the response times of current SSD's are remarkably similar.

Update is you need extra capacity, but do not expect to notice any big performance boost.
These guys could not tell the difference:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKLA7w9eeA
 
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SkyNetRising said:
Not Seagate Barracuda HDDs. Those are all SMR drives with inconsistent write performance.
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Seagate barracuda Hdd's might suffer from that as you claim, but I don't know nothing about that, all that I'm implying is that I have them in my pc and for my data storage requirements they have been performing flawlessly. That's why I would still recommend them, alas if read and write performance is a requirement for anybody including the op, id' steer more to the Nvme & Ssd options, most retailers these days have great deals on either option.
 
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I had a Seagate Barracuda 2TB die in two years; one month after the warranty by the importer company I purchased it from expired. Used it as data storage, not a system drive, with minimum weekly writes.

Every storage dies. As SSDs go personally I try to get Samsung (for durability) and if that's not avilable I try to get Crucial. Not implying other brands are bad.

@ashishkumartinku Unlock what power? We don't know which MSI board you have, only difference you'd feel would basically be the fater read writes of an M.2 drive compared to the old Samsung SATA SSD.
 
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Satan-IR said:
I had a Seagate Barracuda 2TB die in two years; one month after the warranty by the importer company I purchased it from expired. Used it as data storage, not a system drive, with minimum weekly writes.

Every storage dies. As SSDs go personally I try to get Samsung (for durability) and if that's not avilable I try to get Crucial. Not implying other brands are bad.

@ashishkumartinku Unlock what power? We don't know which MSI board you have, only difference you'd feel would basically be the fater read writes of an M.2 drive compared to the old Samsung SATA SSD.
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Damn that sure sucks if that happens, I'm glad too never had a drive die on me yet!
 
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iTRiP said:
Seagate barracuda Hdd's might suffer from that as you claim, but I don't know nothing about that, all that I'm implying is that I have them in my pc and for my data storage requirements they have been performing flawlessly. That's why I would still recommend them, alas if read and write performance is a requirement for anybody including the op, id' steer more to the Nvme & Ssd options, most retailers these days have great deals on either option.
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SMR vs CMR is absolutely a thing. And can majorly impact performance.
 
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iTRiP said:
What is it? can you elaborate?

and the third the people that never have a hard drive die... don't forget that option..
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CMR vs SMR:
www.howtogeek.com

CMR vs. SMR Hard Drives: What's the Difference?

There's a performance penalty with some drives that you need to be aware of.
www.howtogeek.com www.howtogeek.com
history-computer.com

SMR vs. CMR Hard Drives: Which Is Best For You?

Learn all about the two dominant forms of magnetic recording technology: SMR vs. CMR. How do they compare? Let's find out!
history-computer.com history-computer.com

That 3rd type of person is in the "will have a drive die"
Happens to all of us eventually.

Not if, but when.
 
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USAFRet said:
CMR vs SMR:
www.howtogeek.com

CMR vs. SMR Hard Drives: What's the Difference?

There's a performance penalty with some drives that you need to be aware of.
www.howtogeek.com www.howtogeek.com
history-computer.com

SMR vs. CMR Hard Drives: Which Is Best For You?

Learn all about the two dominant forms of magnetic recording technology: SMR vs. CMR. How do they compare? Let's find out!
history-computer.com history-computer.com

That 3rd type of person is in the "will have a drive die"
Happens to all of us eventually.

Not if, but when.
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Your probably right, But I'm having my fingers crossed anyways, you never know maybe that helps, besides doing some cleaver thinking whilst using my hardware and software...could make a difference!
 
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iTRiP said:
Everything I got is backed up all of the time live! and partitioned and trimmed.
Besides it doesn't matter to me even if it is as perfect as it sounds, because I can just retrieve everything I got backed up now.. should I lose the backups or the current.
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Well, thats why I asked about backups.

Your answer to that seemed to hinge on no backup, just 'wishes'..


"partitioned" ?
 
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iTRiP said:
I'm sure that you know one has to keep a drive partitioned and trimmed to have it working for as long that it might be required.
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Not sure what you mean by "one has to keep a drive partitioned".

My drives are all a single 'partition', except for the OS drive and its required boot partition, etc.
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