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.