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.
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.
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.