not really “build” a PC, more “upgrade” but I guess people here might know relevant stuff.
anyhow, I’d like to upgrade storage and get a 2 TB drive. in the $100-region I have these models available:
- ADATA Legend 710 ALEG-710-2TCS
- ADATA Legend 800 ALEG-800-2000GCS
- Crucial P3 CT2000P3SSD8
- KINGSTON SNV2S/2000G
- KINGSTON SNV3S/2000G
- Lexar LNM620 LNM620X002T-RNNNG
- Seagate BarraCuda Q5 ZP2000CV3A001
- Seagate BarraCuda ZP2000CV3A002
I imagine they’re all bottom of the barrel type of deal, no DRAM cache, QLC, etc., but this would be my third drive of such variety (500 GB and 1 TB previous) and I had no issues daily driving 'em, linux with btrfs with HMB support.
so, before I start researching them all one-by-one, does one of these stand out as way better? the target hardware is AMD Ryzen 5 5600 on a B450 board. thanks!
edit: so, I got the data for the models from here and here’s an image of the result (can I post tables in markdown?)
just as I though, no DRAM on either of those.
Id probably do the Crucial, ADATA is such a hit or miss you could get something that’ll truck along for 15 years or it’ll die <6 months lmao
The rest are alright, I still have some PTSD from Seagate, but they’ve been better lately…so far
Crucial isn’t the most performant, but in terms of SSDs and RAM, they’ve become the new IBM. As in, the old saying “no-one ever got fired for buying IBM”. Crucial tends to be rock solid with great reliability. Samsung has the great performance and great reliability, but you pay through the nose for that.
I still have some PTSD from Seagate
SD15 firmware bug is what did it for me. Got hit with the holy trifecta: PW lock-down when attached to a mobo that had no capability to lock drives down behind passwords, BSY signal, and 0Pb (yes, petabyte) available drive space on a RAID-0 stripe of two 1.5Tb drives. I haven’t willingly touched another Seagate product in over a dozen years.
I was shopping around for a 2TB ssd not long ago and the top two contenders were samsung and crucial.
I did go with samsung because I wanted like the top of the line (if all goes well I’ll have this ssd for a very long time) and it won by a very small margin because it’s a tiny bit faster that’s all. Both seemed the most robust ones out there with most write capacity, so as you are not looking for a samsung, go crucial!
I run a repair shop, we use Crucial/Micron, Kingston, and Samsung. More Crucial/Micron than anything else.
We pull a disproportionate amount of failed ADATA drives. Lexar and Seagate don’t have enough of a market share for me to have a sense of their reliability.
We pull a disproportionate amount of failed ADATA drives.
Happened to me. Lousy costumer service after a drive dead still on warranty.
Funny part is the new substitute drive they sent also died shortly after. Didn’t bother after that. Just threw the drive away.
Is $100 your max? If you can go a little higher you can get a great Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB for $169 that will be a better option than most of the SSDs you listed.
