4TB NVMe Recommendations

[Arkanian]

I am thinking about getting the 4TB WD SN850X. Does anyone know when the Samsung 990 Pro 4TB comes out? Should I wait for that, get the WD, or something else?

 

[vegeta535]

The SN850x is a great drive. Samsung hasn't released a 4 tb of their pro drives at all. Even if they do expect to pay a lot more for real world difference.

 

[Abula]

Seagate 4TB FireCuda 530 is another good option.

 

[Arkanian]

Seagate 4TB FireCuda 530 is another good option.

That was the other option that I was looking at but the IOPS is higher on the WD.

 

[sinisterDei]

I like the FireCuda 530. But if you're just gaming, it really doesn't matter all of them are nice. Buy mine if you want!

 

[philb2]

Seagate 4TB FireCuda 530 is another good option.

Does Seagate actually manufacture those drives? Whose controller? Whose memory chips?

 

[ochadd]

What are you going to be doing with the drive? High capacity NVME storage I start looking at Ebay enterprise gear. Open box unused U.2 7.68 TB drives were nearly the same price as 4TB M.2. Prices have jumped some since I last looked. I picked up 23 TB of PCIe gen3 for $1,320 + $60 in adapters. All zero hour use drives. If you don't need the crazy sequential performance.

 

[Arkanian]

What are you going to be doing with the drive? High capacity NVME storage I start looking at Ebay enterprise gear. Open box unused U.2 7.68 TB drives were nearly the same price as 4TB M.2. Prices have jumped some since I last looked. I picked up 23 TB of PCIe gen3 for $1,320 + $60 in adapters. All zero hour use drives. If you don't need the crazy sequential performance.

Just 1 drive with OS, games, vr, and used for unreal development. I don't need an enterprise drive as it won't be storing long term storage.

 

[sinisterDei]

Just 1 drive with OS, games, vr, and used for unreal development. I don't need an enterprise drive as it won't be storing long term storage.

For the most part, users are unable to tell the speed difference between most SSDs unless they have some specific use case for the high speed storage. With that said, I've got a nice Gen4 NVMe GM7000 Predator drive for sale if you want it But I would be fully comfortable recommending almost any 4TB non-QLC drive as meeting your needs.

 

[ochadd]

The SN850x, Firecude 530, Kingston Fury Renegade, and Sabrent 4TB Rocket 4 Plus look like options. Last I knew most 4 TB drives had parts on the back side with no airflow. That would concern me on a real fast drive.

 

[Arkanian]

The SN850x, Firecude 530, Kingston Fury Renegade, and Sabrent 4TB Rocket 4 Plus look like options. Last I knew most 4 TB drives had parts on the back side with no airflow. That would concern me on a real fast drive.

Other options would be 2 2TB in raid 0 but I don’t want to do that.

 

[Mad Maxx]

For anything over 2TB, I'd go with a regular 4TB SSD like the Samsung 870 Evo, over a 4TB NVMe. I have the 4TB 860 Evo in my new build.

 

[jobert]

For anything over 2TB, I'd go with a regular 4TB SSD like the Samsung 870 Evo, over a 4TB NVMe. I have the 4TB 860 Evo in my new build.

Why? At this point it now makes sense to go NVME since next year we will start getting games that actually make some use of it. Plus it is so nice and clean not having SATA and power cables. I just went with a 2 TB Corsair MP600 NH for boot and two 4 TB versions of the same drive for games. I am about to put my 4 TB 850 Evo and 4 TB 860 Evo drives up for sale.

 

[ochadd]

Why? At this point it now makes sense to go NVME since next year we will start getting games that actually make some use of it. Plus it is so nice and clean not having SATA and power cables. I just went with a 2 TB Corsair MP600 NH for boot and two 4 TB versions of the same drive for games. I am about to put my 4 TB 850 Evo and 4 TB 860 Evo drives up for sale.

M.2 does allow for a clean build. The problem is the M.2 2280 form factor. When high capacity means they have to put parts between the PCB and the motherboard. It's not hot swap. The little screws are horrible (I've lost two and have a baggy of spares now for that reason). I hate that the components are exposed and think a 2.5" or 1.8" enclosure would be great.

Back when Sandy Bridge came out I bought some Lenovo machines for work that had SATA and SATA power coming straight off the motherboard. I thought it just a cost cutting thing at the time but now I think that would be a great thing for a cabled PCIe connection for desktop storage. Single cable coming off the motherboard with data and power to an enclosed storage device. OEMs have done this forever with backplanes and storage controllers in servers.

I have no issue with M.2 for grandmas machine and sales guy's laptop. I don't like it for serious data storage.

 

[Abula]

My dream setup on ssds would be
OS/Programs: Intel P5800X 1.6TB U.2
Games: Micron 9300 Pro 15.36TB NVMe U.2
Storage: Micron 5300 PRO 7.68TB SATA

 

[dogDAbone]

WD4Me Always had great luck with them.

Sammy's are great but hella $$ as compared to most other brands, and for the miniscule diffs in performance readings here & there, they just aren't worth the extra coin IMHO...

 

[Arkanian]

I went with the SN850x 4TB.

 

[Abula]

I went with the SN850x 4TB.

Its a good choice, i also bought one =)