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Best inexpensive 1TB NVMe drive?

bobbybluz

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I've always bought Samsung, SK hynix or Solidgm NVMe drives and have had outstanding luck with them. Now I'm upgrading my last Z87 rig to X99 and need a 1TB Gen 3 drive. What's the consensus here for the best bang for the buck for a 1TB system drive in a PC with an ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 mobo? What's close to a Samsung 970 Evo Plus (I have a few of those in use) without the Samsung price penalty?
 
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I'd go with something like the WD SN580 Blue 1TB. It is PCIe gen 4 so it should provide good speed on a gen 3 motherboard.
Are you in the US? Newegg link...
Edit, sorry no link. TPU is adding a reroute to linksysnergy.com bullshit
 
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I dunno, prices change all the time and there are plenty of temporary discounts, especially at this time of year (Black Friday). I have some Sabrents, Samsungs, ADATAs, Silicon Powers, probably a few others I don't remember. I've been buying aftermarket SSDs for over ten years now I don't think there's any clear winner that stands on the podium more than a couple of months.

For ordinary usage cases (and this includes almost all gaming since those are almost all reads not writes) I don't think it really matters that much. I just try to buy what's on sale and hope it doesn't run too hot.

Especially for Gen 3 drives, these are all approaching what I consider to be commodity level components. I'd just buy something from a company that I have a little trust in rather than save $4 with some new/unknown brand. There is more performance variance for the Gen 5 parts but Gen 3 is old. The NAND chips are proven, the disk controller is proven, the firmware is proven.
 
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After a bit of reading I went with the KLEVV CRAS C925 1TB for $66 and I'll have it tomorrow. I have a 1TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus in a portable enclosure and that's going into the upgrade PC. The KLEVV will go into the enclosure until I finally get around to putting my 12700K/ ASRock Z690 Steel Legend WiFi back together (had to RMA the mobo that my 13600KF took out when it went poof. All the parts are here but I never got around to reassembling it. The replacement 13600KF went into another Z690 Steel Legend WiFi I just buttoned up tonight. I had a 12600K & 12700K stashed away). I'll be able to use the faster speed of the KLEVV with the Z690 plus I have an unopened Solidgm P44 Pro 2TB on hand as well.

Thanks for the input and the link to the KLEVV, as usual TPU is the best!
 
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