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Currently have an ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB NVMe and looking to replace it with a 1TB drive not just for Windows but games too.
I have a budget of £120/£130.
I have a budget of £120/£130.
Sabrent Rocket (not the Q) is a really good boot drive for the price, and uses TLC NAND, which is the higher quality option.
Seen it as low as £100 but even at £125 it's not bad.
Currently have an ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB NVMe and looking to replace it with a 1TB drive not just for Windows but games too.
I have a budget of £120/£130.
pcie 3 or 4? what motherboard do you have
also dont forget an heatsink
My basket at Overclockers UK:
I've got a B550 Tomahawk.
no real world differance in any way but you can use pcie 4.0 if wanted
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sams...-4.0-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-hd-247-sa.html
personly i would save £50 and get a gen 3
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cruc...-3.0-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-hd-06q-cr.html
**Dont forget an heatsink**
Don't need a heatsink with the Tomahawk, preferred a 1TB.
sorry linked wrong drive the 1tb gen 4 is over £200
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/patriot-viper-vpn4100-gen4-1tb-ssd-vp4100-1tbm28h-hd-016-pa.html
Why not get a 2.5" drive for games and keep the m.2 you have for boot.
you can pick up 2tb sata ssd's for £150 now(if you look around).
and in the real world there is only of seconds difference in load times
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sams...-solid-state-drive-mz-77q2t0bw-hd-244-sa.html
i would wait till black friday as nvmes etc always go on sale. if you cant the 1tb version of the s8200 for £110 should do the trick.
Zero need for any SSD heatsinks in gaming, because of drive activity being short bursts or at far from full speed of the drive.**Dont forget an heatsink**
At the moment WD Black SN750 is the best priced full speed PCIe v3 NVMe in OcUK's stock.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t3x0c-hd-55v-wd.html
And WD Blue SN550 bang per buck budget drive.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t2b0c-hd-56l-wd.html
Zero need for any SSD heatsinks in gaming, because of drive activity being short bursts or at far from full speed of the drive.
And there's even less sense in paying from PCIe v4 hype from overpriced brand, when even budget NVMes have huge amount on unutilized performance.
Zero need for any SSD heatsinks in gaming, because of drive activity being short bursts or at far from full speed of the drive.
And there's even less sense in paying from PCIe v4 hype from overpriced brand, when even budget NVMes have huge amount on unutilized performance.
That motherboard has a M.2 heatsink already:what about downloading, installing and updating games. for the cost of an heatsink just get one.
you can find them for £5
yep we have already been over that one, read the thread..That motherboard has a M.2 heatsink already:
Zero need for any SSD heatsinks in gaming, because of drive activity being short bursts or at far from full speed of the drive.
Doubtfull anyone here has fast enough internet connection for it to stress NVMes in any way.what about downloading, installing and updating games. for the cost of an heatsink just get one.
you can find them for £5
Doubtfull anyone here has fast enough internet connection for it to stress NVMes in any way.
Install process would be only one with potential for that.
But possible data decompression and other processing might limit write speeds.
And when writing data increased temperature would actually lower the wear of NAND...
While data is retained better at lower temperature.
As always, there is a technical explanation to the data retention scaling. The conductivity of a semiconductor scales with temperature, which is bad news for NAND because when it's unpowered the electrons are not supposed to move as that would change the charge of the cell. In other words, as the temperature increases, the electrons escape the floating gate faster that ultimately changes the voltage state of the cell and renders data unreadable (i.e. the drive no longer retains data).
For active use the temperature has the opposite effect. Because higher temperature makes the silicon more conductive, the flow of current is higher during program/erase operation and causes less stress on the tunnel oxide, improving the endurance of the cell because endurance is practically limited by tunnel oxide's ability to hold the electrons inside the floating gate.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-retention
Problem is controller heating up during activity.