sikhwarrior Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Hi, I am looking for a 3rd gen NVME but not sure what would suit me. The PC will be used for general use, no gaming will be done. ASUS PRIME A320M-K Motherboard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinetheo Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 (edited) With older gen 3 I would say all the brands would be similar speedwise and I would pick reliability and endurance rating drives as some of the older ones can develop bad cells or have flakey controlers. Avoid the low end Intel ones and Sansdisks. sikhwarrior 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted September 9, 2022 MVC Share Posted September 9, 2022 I have a 2 Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB that i'm very happy with. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MFZY2F2/ sikhwarrior, +Raze, +Matthew S. and 2 others 5 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted September 9, 2022 Moderator Share Posted September 9, 2022 I have 1 WD Black 1TB SN770 https://www.amazon.com/WD_BLACK-SN770-Internal-Gaming-Solid/dp/B09QV692XY/ goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 I'd go with 970 Evo Plus. +Raze 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Farmer Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Inland, which is MicroCenter's house brand, has been solid for me. Someone said they are rebranded Kingston. We have probably 600-700 Kingston drives and only a few failures over 4 years or so. I like Samsung but prices are ridiculous. Although lately there have been good deals. hellowalkman, Nogib and sikhwarrior 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sikhwarrior Posted September 9, 2022 Author Share Posted September 9, 2022 On 09/09/2022 at 15:39, Shane Farmer said: Inland, which is MicroCenter's house brand, has been solid for me. Someone said they are rebranded Kingston. We have probably 600-700 Kingston drives and only a few failures over 4 years or so. I like Samsung but prices are ridiculous. Although lately there have been good deals. I have seen the 970 evo plus 1TB for around £108 here in the UK on amazon, I was hoping to find something around 70-80 mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 (edited) On 09/09/2022 at 07:39, Shane Farmer said: Inland, which is MicroCenter's house brand, has been solid for me. Someone said they are rebranded Kingston. We have probably 600-700 Kingston drives and only a few failures over 4 years or so. I like Samsung but prices are ridiculous. Although lately there have been good deals. This is anecdotal, but a Kingston SSD is the only SSD I have ever had fail on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 On 09/09/2022 at 09:42, sikhwarrior said: I have seen the 970 evo plus 1TB for around £108 here in the UK on amazon, I was hoping to find something around 70-80 mark 970 Evos are good as well. Heck, the 960 series was too. The problem with those is finding them sold and at a reasonable price. Take a look at Crucial if you want cost savings. https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-500GB-PCIe-NAND-3500MB/dp/B0B25LZGGW/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon H Supervisor Posted September 9, 2022 Supervisor Share Posted September 9, 2022 edit: ^ crucial is always a good option for affordable decent parts for use cases like yours OP ^ a couple of my PCs are running off of the WD Blue SN570 https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-blue-sn570-nvme-ssd and they've been great you can also never go wrong with Samsung EVOs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 (edited) On 09/09/2022 at 09:31, Brandon H said: edit: ^ crucial is always a good option for affordable decent parts for use cases like yours OP ^ a couple of my PCs are running off of the WD Blue SN570 https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-blue-sn570-nvme-ssd and they've been great you can also never go wrong with Samsung EVOs I would have recommended WD, but I am at a 50% hit/miss ratio on that one. The first one I bought ( was a blue) it would sometimes show on boot and sometimes not. The second (a gen4 black) is perfectly fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted September 9, 2022 Moderator Share Posted September 9, 2022 (edited) On 09/09/2022 at 12:14, adrynalyne said: I would have recommended WD, but I am at a 50% hit/miss ratio on that one. The first one I bought ( was a blue) it would sometimes show on boot and sometimes not. The second (a gen4 black) is perfectly fine. I never had a problem with WD. But, everyone has their own opinion. Blacks have always been top notch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellowalkman Reporter Posted September 9, 2022 Reporter Share Posted September 9, 2022 Honestly it wouldn't really matter. Just get anything within your budget like Crucial, Kingston, WD, etc. Btw, here is something interesting I found: https://community.amd.com/t5/processors/does-athlon-200ge-support-nvme/m-p/93436/highlight/true#M4871 Mindovermaster 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman25 Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 Have a 500GB NvMe 970 Evo Plus as Boot Drive in my Gaming system, No problems whatssoever with it thus far, and machine used typically 14-16 hours active, then idle for maintenance/or doing backup tasks, or something, and then resume normal gaming and stuff soon as i wake up typically Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceelf Posted September 9, 2022 Share Posted September 9, 2022 On 09/09/2022 at 12:24, Mindovermaster said: I never had a problem with WD. But, everyone has their own opinion. Blacks have always been top notch. I got one of the originals. Needed a heatsink bad. Otherwise, a good drive and still in use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted September 9, 2022 Supervisor Share Posted September 9, 2022 Hello, I have had good results with the following drives: Intel 660p series (this is an older, slower drive) Kioxia (formerly Toshiba) XG6 SSD MyDigitalSSD BPX 80mm (this is an older, slower drive) Sabrent SB-ROCKET (this is an older drive) Samsung 950 PRO Samsung 970 EVO Plus Samsung 970 PRO Samsung 980 PRO (this is a PCIe Gen 4.0 drive, but works fine in a 3.0 slot) Seagate FireCuda 510 SK hynix Gold P31 Western Digital WD Black SN750 Western Digital WD Black NVMe SSD (this is an older drive) Western Digital WD Blue SN570 Regards, Aryeh Goretsky sikhwarrior, +Warwagon and +Matthew S. 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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