The Silicon Power and BX500 are both DRAMless SSDs (not ideal for a boot drive, fine for storage/game drive). The 1TB BX500 is also QLC. The 960GB is TLC so the 960GB is recommended over the 1TB unless you REALLY need the extra 64GB.launch wrote: ↑ Cheapest 1TB with some kind of brand name I've found is $129.99. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07LG1 ... OQJA&psc=1
The 1 TB BX500 is a few dollars cheaper than the Adata at $136.37.
The SU800 is fine IMO. If you do want to move up to NVMe, you might notice things are a shade quicker but it's not a huge improvement, certainly not like going from HDD to SSD. If you are gonna go NVMe, the Kingston A2000 is better than the Crucial P1 and only a few bucks more. They use the same controller but the Kingston is TLC and the Crucial is QLC.launch wrote: ↑ Thanks. That's good to know about them being DRAMless. There is also a 1 TB nvme from Crucial for and extra $5 over this Adata SU800. I don't have an m.2 slot on my motherboard but I do have an adapter and the cpu is Intel 6th Gen so it would support booting from NVME Pcie. Do you think the Crucial nvme is better than the Adata SU800 sata and worth the extra $5? https://www.amazon.ca/Crucial-1TB-NAND- ... 148&sr=8-3
If you motherboard does not have an M.2 slot, but the BIOS supports NVMe, adapters should work fine. I have 1 system that boots form this and works well, 2 others that is configured as an ESXi datastore, it's been reliable for the last 8-9 months. Amazon cheap ones. Good experience here so far.
It's a good model, IIRC this one has DRAM and it well reviewed. I use this as a boot drive on my personal PC. This was my second choice SSD with the Crucial MX500 being the first, cost/performance wise.firehawk12 wrote: ↑ What about the WD one for 149?
https://www.amazon.ca/Blue-NAND-1TB-SSD ... 185&sr=8-1
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