Question SSD

[anjris]

Hi,

I am planning to Buy a SSD and my motherboard have M.2 slot.

I have MSI Z390 A PRO motherboard.

Please suggest which one i can go for as per below points

1. M.2 SSD or M.2 Nvme (i searched Nvme is lot faster than M.2 SSD)

2. SSD with heatsink or without heatsink

I need SSD for high end gaming

Thank you

 

[anjris]

Steam often flogs drives when downloading games. I see it with SSDs on my laptops, I see it with my RAIDed platter drives.

It's sounding like your SSD is the bottleneck in this situation, but I'm not sure how much of an improvement moving to another SSD might be. I suspect there would be a significant improvement, as you're running low on free space and 120GB SSDs often have quite slow random write performance.

Avoid ANY SSD that doesn't have a RAM or SLC buffer.

Can you please suggest any ssd in this situation.

Which is having Ram os slc buffer

 

[PC Tailor]

What amount of storage do you want? 1TB?

 

[dudeman509]

Can you please suggest any ssd in this situation.

Which is having Ram os slc buffer

SATA - Crucial MX500 or Samsung 860 Evo
NVMe - I like the Samsung 970 Evo, but there are a couple decent options.

 

[anjris]

What amount of storage do you want? 1TB?

Max 500 gb

Also suggest which one M.2 Sata or nvme?

 

[anjris]

SATA - Crucial MX500 or Samsung 860 Evo
NVMe - I like the Samsung 970 Evo, but there are a couple decent options.

Which one you're using ?

 

[PC Tailor]

NVMe is probably wasted if you're using it for gaming.
Value for money means the SATA interface would be the best choice.

If you can find a good quality NVMe for the same price and size, then may as well. Just make sure your motherboard can support the interface.

 

[anjris]

NVMe is probably wasted if you're using it for gaming.
Value for money means the SATA interface would be the best choice.

If you can find a good quality NVMe for the same price and size, then may as well. Just make sure your motherboard can support the interface.

Could you please suggest any good sata m.2 ssd model in my situation.
My motherboard support both SATA AND NVME

MSI z390 A Pro

BTW, which one you're using.

 

[PC Tailor]

And to add, the Samsung EVO 860 and Crucial are both great choices.
Samsung tend to hold the numbr 1 spot of SSDs currently.

 

[dudeman509]

Which one you're using ?

I have a 250 GB 970 Evo as my C drive in my desktop + a 6 TB platter drive RAID-0 configuration for games/storage. I do find myself wishing that I'd bought a 500 GB now that prices have tanked.

I have 1 Crucial MX100 (older model) and a Samsung 850 Evo in laptops. They have been excellent.