Recommendations on new M.2 drive

Farva said:
Western Digital
SanDisk
Samsung
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Uh huh uh huh I can see your point, however...can you maybe be a little more specific in regards to models and pricing? I'd like to stick in the ballpark of $100ish :ROFLMAO:
 
jimbob200521 said:
Uh huh uh huh I can see your point, however...can you maybe be a little more specific in regards to models and pricing? I'd like to stick in the ballpark of $100ish :ROFLMAO:
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Well, you could have been a little more specific on the price from the get go. ;)

Each of those manufacturers offer 1TB NVMe drives. ;)

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=western+digital+1tb+nvme&s=l

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=sandisk+1tb+nvme&s=l

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=samsung+1tb+nvme&s=l

You can also check out PC Part Picker:

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/i...00,16000000000000&X=0,15343&sort=price&page=1
 
daglesj said:
Corsair 510

Very impressed with mine.
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That drive was on my short list. I have an older series Corsair M.2 in my server and my main PC is full of Corsair fans and liquid cooling so I may just snag the Corsair because they've been good to me so far (knock on wood). Not always the cheapest (coughfanscough) but always been a solid company for me.
 
yoyo55 said:
If you have a Microcenter near you go with an Inland 1TB. The drives are incredible for the price
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This is basically the same as the Sabrent Rocket as they both use the Phison E12 controller (and Toshiba NAND I think...might be wrong on the NAND). Amazon sells both. I picked up the Inland 2TB version a few months ago. Great drive.
 
kirbyrj said:
This is basically the same as the Sabrent Rocket as they both use the Phison E12 controller (and Toshiba NAND I think...might be wrong on the NAND). Amazon sells both. I picked up the Inland 2TB version a few months ago. Great drive.
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I can't speak for the Inland drive but I know the Sabrent Rocket uses Toshiba NAND, the TLC one at least.

And the nearest Microcenter is about 2 hours away so it's not really worth it for me to drive 4 hours round trip to save $10-$20 on a drive. I'm going to end up going with Amazon. Ever since I got their card that gives cash back on purchases, I've been a danger to myself (and my bank account).
 
jimbob200521 said:
I can't speak for the Inland drive but I know the Sabrent Rocket uses Toshiba NAND, the TLC one at least.

And the nearest Microcenter is about 2 hours away so it's not really worth it for me to drive 4 hours round trip to save $10-$20 on a drive. I'm going to end up going with Amazon. Ever since I got their card that gives cash back on purchases, I've been a danger to myself (and my bank account).
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My point was that you don't need to drive to micro center to buy the inland drive if you want it because they are both available on Amazon. The Sabrent drive was a little more expensive on Amazon and it's basically the same drive. That might have changed though because I have not looked at pricing since I bought my drive. The Corsair 510 drive is the same as the inland and Sabrent. All of them use the Phison E12 and perform similarly.
 
The Sabrent or Inland (amazon sells both) models based on the Phison E12 are the best price/perf drives out there right now. Those or your Crucials/Sandisk/WD/Samsung 1TB drives for around $100-130 (post holiday hikes) are probably fine. I'd avoid any drive with QLC unless its that Intel one for $80-90 and I wouldn't use a QLC based drive as an OS drive.
 
jimbob200521 said:
That drive was on my short list. I have an older series Corsair M.2 in my server and my main PC is full of Corsair fans and liquid cooling so I may just snag the Corsair because they've been good to me so far (knock on wood). Not always the cheapest (coughfanscough) but always been a solid company for me.
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It gets overlooked in the crush but good specs, good hardware, good warranty and superb endurance. The speeds are +/- with any of the top contenders. But for me it was the superb latency performance that swung it. Near Optane levels.
 
I've always had great luck with Samsung drives over the years, and would pay a bit extra for one personally. That said I think the Sabrent is probably the best value in a drive right now.
 
I own samsung, Sabrent, and inland drives.

The sabren and inland with the phison e12 controller are incredibly good value and smoking fast. I have a 950 pro as my boot and an inland 1T as a secondary running at x2 speeds on both of them. I don't have enough lanes to do better and that is still blazing fast NVME to NVME.
 
raz-0 said:
I own samsung, Sabrent, and inland drives.

The sabren and inland with the phison e12 controller are incredibly good value and smoking fast. I have a 950 pro as my boot and an inland 1T as a secondary running at x2 speeds on both of them. I don't have enough lanes to do better and that is still blazing fast NVME to NVME.
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I'm thinking that's what I'm going to end up going with is the Sabrent. I am ordering Wednesday and I had the Corsair in my cart but the price keeps going up and it's out of stock until next week. Once my Amazon rewards points drop into my account Wednesday, I'm pulling the trigger.
 
I’ve Been using phison E12 Sabrent drives for a while. They’ve been great, though I just got my first defective one. Last a few hours and then died.

The 6 others I have work well.
 
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