The video title got me expecting a video about SSD price falling and why and such deeper explaination about it. But turns out to be a SSD buying guide which contains information that i didn't knew before, so i like it.

as someone who has been hoarding Data since 1995 that last advice kinda hurt but me having access to my tools and apps for older computers always seem to end up being used somehow every few years.

A word of advice. When you get your motherboard, just screw the m.2 screws it comes into the motherboard so you don’t need to worry about finding them or buying some later. I don’t know why they don’t just do this before they ship them.

and there... Apple is still charging $200 dollars for SSD storage upgrade from 256GB to 512GB. And people still buying.

What a recommendation. I'm eyeing for that Intel SSD and this video solidifies my research. Thank you for doing this video 😊

One thing I would mention in this topic is that if you lack free NVMe slots you can buy PCIe cards that let you slot them. The specs of your system and motherboard design will determine if slotting an NVMe drive this way affects speed or not. Likely the PCIe bus is not going to be saturated and will perform perfectly fine to maintain top speeds for your drive. The biggest competitor in most systems for bus bandwidth will be your graphics card, but even top end graphics cards don't fill out PCIe 3.0 spec speeds. Perhaps if you have multiple graphics cards/Video capture/stream encoder devices all using the bus.. well you probably won't have a slot left to put the PCIe adapter anyway! In any case while I doubt saturating the bus is a big worry, I don't want anyone out there getting sub-par speed because I forgot to mention to check.

670P is now $69.99 on newegg.

Samsung 980 Pro 2TB SSD for $99.99 right now on Amazon. PCIe Gen 4 speeds on 4x lanes.

This video was deeper than it needed to be but much appreciated on the quality

When I decided to install a M.2 PCIe drive (I already had 5 SATA SSDs), I couldn't find the screw anywhere. I searched the box of the motherboard, I searched the box of the PC case, etc. Then just before I ordered a bunch of them, I realized the screw was already in its place on the motherboard. Just sharing my experience. :) Very good video, well done.

The first thing I always look at besides capacity and price is the TBW as that can get used up fairly quickly by some users. For my daily I am using some drives that are rated for 3200TBW bought on the cheap as they were retired from a data center plus they are MLC rather than the usual TLC nand.

thanks for the valuable information!

thank you, very useful

I bought a $25 Crucial 500GB Gen3 SSD four days ago from Amazon for my Dell Inspiron 15! I remember they were riotously expensive and I set them aside until today. Noticed a huge improvement after installing Blizzard and Steam into the new drive!

I just bought 2x1tb mp34 (phison e12, dram + tlc) for 45$ each

Thanks for your time and sharing. I was totally unaware that Intel sold their ssd business to SK Hynix under the Solidigm umbrella. I always depended on SK Hynix and spinoff TimeTec for my memory needs but this opens up a new SSD NVMe avenue for me.

I want SSDs for a NAS not because of the speed for software but for the reliability and quick transfer speed for backing up the data. I only wish they would sell 10 TB SSDs instead of capping themselves at 8 TB.

Thank you for quality video, glad i saw it, didn't knew about intel m2 ssds being such a good deal

Spend $ 15 on a PCIe to M.2 adapter to get room for a third M.2 SSD. It does require a X4 PCIe slot.

My man! I had not considered that installing nvmes would result in sacrificing the number of sata drives. That could have caused some headaches. Thanks for the information!

Your comment about ending up with too many drives as well received. For some reason I have five external drives brand new in the box sitting on my desk I’m not sure even why I bought them off, but I am going to go set up a complete back up system from my home computer. I’m pretty much in applications user I don’t program I don’t do websites. I don’t even know what discord is. Thanks for the video. I’m interested in these drives for whatever crazy reason.

@7:07 - Crucial NVME drives include a screw within the packaging.

recently bought a 2tb Crucial p3, it came with a NVME screw.

Just because a company has headquarters in the United States doesn't mean they won't off-shore support to save money.

nicee vid, very clear, nice brand tips, nice hoarding disorder.

The main thing I look for is quality brand/component SSD's with professional or enterprise/data-center level TBW endurance ratings for their form factor. A quality 2TB M.2 SSD in 2024 should have a TBW endurance rating of at least 1PB (1000TB). A 1TB M.2 should be in the 750TB range for TBW endurance ratings. Enterprise-level 2.5" SATA SSD's tend to be more robust & durable than their M.2 counterparts, but obviously not as quick. My secondary drive 960GB Intel/Solidigm D3-S4620 2.5" SATA SSD has a TBW endurance rating of 7.1PB (7100TB) versus my boot drive 2TB Intel/Solidigm P44 PRO M.2 2280 SDD at 1.2PB (1200TB) TBW endurance rating. All SSD's are plenty quick though (even the older-school 2.5" SATA ones really), so I don't quibble on benchmarks & look for quality & long-term durability.

The Silicon Power UD90 was only $169 for a 4tb nvme last week. It's gone up since they sold off their bulk stock I guess, but 4tb drives are getting down there to the point where buying anything less aside from a system/boot drive is becoming less worth while.

thanks for the detailed info. upvoted!!!

If you're going to hoard data, you probably want to go with spinning disks for way cheaper $/TB. Often going for ~$15/TB, 8-12TB per drive.

I won't admit to being a data hoarder but I'm pretty certain I've helped keep the doors of one of Western Digital's hard drive manufacturing facilities open. Some nights I pour terabytes worth of data onto my bed and, giggling, just roll around in it.

Been shopping around for another gen 4 m.2 as my 1TB Sabrent rocket is filling up, I still have over 3TB on my backup spinny disk, but thats all I intend for it, as a backup. 2TB seems to be the sweet spot in price, as long as you have the extra m.2 slot. For me I don't lose any SATA's until I use the third m.2 slot. This is where paying a little extra on your motherboard can pay off, when I built my PC I never thought I would ever use all the slots and functions of the board, but a few years in and those slots get filled up.

Please inform the user about the use of the proper cable when using a external ssd or m.2 drive because it will affect the speed of the drive.

The M.2 screw comes included in Crucial P5 Plus package

First world countries: lol SSDs are literally free Third world countries: I recognize that the council has given a discount, but given that it's a stupid ass discount, I've elected to ignore it.

what a great video

LOL! The last statement is very true. I’ve over 30TB of data (family pictures & videos alone) and in the process of building my third NAS for redundancy.

screws go in screwholes. hard to lose them there.

Ssd & HDD will be with us for long. My first $85 2.5 sata sumsung 860 evo 250gb was 6 years ago & it's life is good at 95%. Now using Kingston fury 1t & nv2 1t x2, low prices n fast, with 3 external HDD & nas 4+4t & some very old functioning hdd. Opinion: will still buy higher capacities nvme ssd for replacing old ssd (be used in external casings) in next few years, stop buying HDD when possible. Feeling very not happy about Virus scanning & defrag very big capacity & old slow HDD, it takes years to complete, a waste of life for waiting task completion, can someone share advice how to deal with long time HDD task, tqs

The WD Black drives are incredibly fast. Even the gen 3 drives.

I'm a data hoarder. I probably have files older than some people reading this.

The sk P31 2tb is now under $100… think I need that as an extra drive for my laptop

When are we going to see 20TB SSDs at cheap prices?

I'm sad that I bought a 2TB 660p for $210 a couple years ago. Bought a 2TB 980 Pro for $195 last year. Now storage is dropping so much.

AliExpress are selling 2tb ones for $50-60 Damn good price but i would pay abit more for kingston ones

SATA has it's limits in throughput. Making high speed SATA NVMe's or 2.5"SSD is a waste of time and money, as they saturate the SATA bus already. PCIe NVMe's are different, with much faster busses.

Data hoarding is worth it. specially now that a lot of software are being discontinued and become a subscription based and cloud applications. my uncle has a small business (homedepot) hardware store. he doesn't want to subscribe to any inventory system special that we are from third world country. the price is expensive. but I remember I have a pirated version of a certain inventory software that I tested back 2014. when I visit their website, I realize they already discontinued their on-premise version and launched their cloud version. which means it is technically legal to pirate it coz they no longer support the on-premised and no longer sell it. and guess what I have it hoarded in my drive.

Power usage is also an important aspect for laptops.

I need 4tb choices I upgrading my current 2tb drives!

740TBW for 2TB brand new SSD is not high enough (I mean old SSDs had fewer life for each type and 740tbw for 2tb TLC would be alot like 4 years ago but not now but for QLC like intel u bought is good) for standard TLC SSD 2TB has 1200TBW (like SAMSUNG 970,980,990 Pro (or EVO) or WD SN 750,850) some drives like ADATA XPG high end SSDs like S70 it will be even higher like 1480TBW and for high endurance drives like SABRENT Rocket 4 or PNY CS3040 it is 3600TBW (which is insanely high) and they are not expensive (they are even abit cheaper than 980 pro or SN850, but faster than even best gen 3 drives, fast enough for most people, about 5.000 read and 4.500 write is alot (I know 980/990 pro or SN850/SN850X or S70/S70 blade or Rocker 4 Plus are faster (close to 7500 read/ 7000 write) but 5000/4500 is more than enough for most people specially if users write alto of drive, high endurance drives will be better for them than faster but with 1/3 life) btw I never suggested intel SSDs to anyone even before selling its NAND part, they never been fastest or cheapest or best in anything (Optane drive are different, those were very durable and high endurance and too expensive for low capacity like 16/32/64 GB, but were great for use as cache for large HDDs to have alot of space with high speed (like if u would cache 64gb Optane for 10TB HDD u would have storage with SSD speed and HDD capacity and because of very high TBW that Optane would work for years before dies) about SSD caching. cheap SSDs use SLC caching (like those models u see with a bit fewer capacity, like 240 except 256 or 480 except 512) they use few GB of their space as SLC (doesnt matter rest is TLC or QLC) which make it faster (not by far like DRAM) and good for cache and improving performance for no cost then HMB came and some cheap models have it now (newer versions) but not all, WD Green still doesnt have it, or even in Blue series SN550 doesnt have it but SN570 has it or SAMSUNG 980 (as far as I know SAMSUNG only SSD without DRAM) but they use very very small portion of system memory (even like only 64MB!) I like Crucial HBM wich call momentum cache , it can use system ram up to 4GB!!! depend if system has enough ram (like in systems with at least 16gb ram , it can cache up to 4gb, and if your system memory is fast (like fast DDR4 (4000+) or even faster DDR5s, will improve SSD performance more than integrated DRAM (which is 512MB or 1GB in most SSDs and their type are LPDDR3 or LPDDR4 slower ram) for example Crucail P2 is very cheap M.2 NVMe SSD. with speed Up to 2.400 read and 1800 write, but with momentum cache enabled of system with 16gb DDR5 ram, in tests it reach Up to 8000 MBps for read and 7500 for write (files below 4GB) but doesnt matter of your SSD, enable over provisioning in its software, if it doesnt have or support, do it yourself and set some as unpartiotioned, (10% of its capacity is recomanded but if u have large SSD like 2TB or more 5% is good enough too) with this action your SSD speed and endurance will improve. I have add that health percent software show is not always accurate, they calculate it as how much drives TBW total and how much u write on it by far, but sometime because of some problems like firmware issue it will reduce much faster (like happened for SAMSUNG recently and had to fix it) or I find in some models of ADATA new series (Legend) it doesnt go by numbers company give us, like Legend 850 1TB with 1000tbw, its health go like models with 600TBW (in all capacities)

Data hoarding on ssd can cause them to fail prematurely. If you almost fill an ssd to it's limit and keep it there, especially a boot drive, you can kill one in about a year of use. An ssd needs to have about 20 percent free space to have its advertised life.

the solidigm p41 is considered the 670p successor, however it doesnt have dram. would you choose the p44 pro because of this?

I already have two 2 terabyte ssd"s and two 4 terabyte ssd's and was looking at an 8 terabyte ssd but not gonna spend over a thousand dollars when a year later it will be half that!

I just got a Crucial 1TB M.2 SSD for $47USD delivered. I got a 500GB for the wife for $22. Both are Gen 3.

In my country 970 evo plus have similar price with 980 pro. Because 970 evo plus more durable and have no bugs

I already maximized the value of my 4 TB M.2 NVMe SSD with 7000/7500 MB write/read speed, 2 GB DDR4 buffer, AES-256 encryption, 3000 TB TBW and TRIM which I bought for 250$ equally *stonks*

just picked up a 1tb for 37 gbp whoot!

What we want is more pcie lanes.

not sure how a 740 TBW ssd would be good for video editing if raw footage project are rarely below 120GB each time and i'm not talking about storing it and having constant flow of over 600GB weekly, there are much better drives for much cheaper then this one

I'm curious about how the 670p behaves when nearly full, given that it uses SLC cache. Something it can't do when nearing capacity.

$69.99 now but yes I bought at 79 and 73, just how it goes, still good value and reputation, all that matters.

I just got a 2TB kingston for 150 ish. It's only more than twice as fast.

SATA SSD without DRAM are a big waste of money as they are almost as slow as a HDD. (Unfortunately I know from own experience.) Is this the same with NVME and using part of your main RAM? (I imagine the connexion between NVME drive and RAM is much faster than with SATA, but does that help?)

PLAY video x1.5 Speed

even in the year 2035, gen 3 SSD will have more speed than you will ever need for any game or application Gen 4 is pure marketing, an unnecessary overpriced expense

DRAM less and QLC memory cell is never a good combination, even for 73$.

thanks

whats with 4tb crucial p3plus?

good video

1tb p2crucial i bought au$138 2020 m2 didnt perform well ( use as storage) things went weird so i put windows10pro back on the Adata 512gb IDK even when thing go Great for a year windows fooks something up or you add a HDD the bios resets and wont boot also if pc wont reboot check bios is win10 M2 1st also a nivia up date fixed an issue . it shouldnt have to thou! The bastards think because they buid an OS /MB etc they own us

not DRAM and QLC. It's cheap for a reason

Definitely not simple, took U 1 month to select a SSD

Samsung firmware bug?

I am NEVER buying an Intel SSD again. Just say no. NEVER had a problem with Samsung EVER.

Intel ssd suck ass I brought one and regret getting it. It boots fine but with transfering files it just crash.

don't buy SiliconPower, tried in the past, SSD and RAM, SSD died less than a year, RAM corrupted also less than a year, causing lot of data corruption and crashes, i know that after doing memtest86..

well made

2:06 did bro really say minimal when its like a 30$ difference

Everyday is an adjective.

Why do you have giant text on screen? if someone needs closed captions they can turn that on manually.

"the price difference between 1tb and 2tb is minimal" - shows the 2tb drive 2x the price of 1tb

SSD is not a good choice for data storage. The best size is only about 256 GB for os and apps. The data should on,y be in standard drives

Kingston NV - 2 is the Best

Kingston NV 2 is the Best

China SSD is coming!!!and it's very popular in China. help former SSD's factory without fire😂 let the price of ssd becoming more reasonable and affordable. yangtze memory 128 nano flash kingbank KP260 1tb ZhiTai TiPlus5000 1tb under 300RMB

Why are we using SATA SSD in the first place or is that some minority minimum wage trash problem?

Not low enough for the capacity. HDD still beats it by a long shot.

Which is best for hacking?

Ah mistake #1 you have spent money on an Asrock pos .. Mistake #2 samsung hw is good still but their Cs is sucky at best and is falling still

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