Need suggestion for SSD

Hi friends

A SSD is needed for attaching to with Gigabyte A320 mobo. Please tell which one is better and how much capacity of SSD would be enough for OS and apps ?

Budget 5K
What is the difference between mvi and sata express SSD ?
 
Hi friends

A SSD is needed for attaching to with Gigabyte A320 mobo. Please tell which one is better and how much capacity of SSD would be enough for OS and apps ?

Budget 5K
What is the difference between mvi and sata express SSD ?
"Officially SATA Express (SATAe from now on) is part of the SATA 3.2 standard. ... As a result SATAe is fully compatible with all existing SATA drives and cables and the only real difference is that the same connector (although not the same SATA cable) can be used with PCIe SSDs"

Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/7843/testing-sata-express-with-asus/2
 
I suggest you go for 500gb SSD M.2 NVMe (Not sata) because it's fits in your budget, and it's will be more than enough for your OS and talking about apps it's depend which apps you are going to install like if install RDR2 (which is 150gb alone) and couple more and you are going to running out of storage.
But really though for normal use it will be fine.
I prefer WD BLUE SN550 500Gb, Because I think price is good, and read and write speed of this SSD is best among it's competitor (like crucial, adta and Kingstone's 500 gb ssds (Samsung is not in this scope))
it's go on amazon for 5100 to 5200 if you wait for sale or get discount on credit/debit card you can get it for 4.5k which is going to be steal deal

And your motherboard also support this SSD (Check it out at gigabyte a320 m.2 support list)
 
He has Ryzen 3200G processor, 8gb DDR4 corsair ram and 4tb WD.

He is buying SSD as he feels his PC slower in running...and we think that SSD would make PC faster...
 
How much of an impact would a SSD have on his PC. The only benefit is boot times and loading of applications that he will install on the SSD. For him to get things moving faster on his PC there is a whole other chain of components that need to be looked into.
 
How much of an impact would a SSD have on his PC. The only benefit is boot times and loading of applications that he will install on the SSD. For him to get things moving faster on his PC there is a whole other chain of components that need to be looked into.
Even if he using an entry level ryzen processor and just 4GB RAM, the difference in responsiveness of the PC will be night and day with SSD. Even pentium class processors fly with SSD for most day to day applications.
 
Even if he using an entry level ryzen processor and just 4GB RAM, the difference in responsiveness of the PC will be night and day with SSD. Even pentium class processors fly with SSD for most day to day applications.
8GB DDR4 Corsair 3200 mhz is being used in this PC. But still the speed in opening of games like GTA 5 is very slow. So wanted to add a SSD....
How much of an impact would a SSD have on his PC. The only benefit is boot times and loading of applications that he will install on the SSD. For him to get things moving faster on his PC there is a whole other chain of components that need to be looked into.
Like, which components are you talking about....
its m2 nvme and sata ssd , go for 500 gb ones ,what processor do you have ?
ryzen 3 3200g
How about this one when compared with WD blue nvme or A2000 nvme m.2

Adata Swordfish
 
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8GB DDR4 Corsair 3200 mhz is being used in this PC. But still the speed in opening of games like GTA 5 is very slow. So wanted to add a SSD....

Like, which components are you talking about....

ryzen 3 3200g
How about this one when compared with WD blue nvme or A2000 nvme m.2

Adata Swordfish
You can also consider Crucial P1 500GB if you are on a budget. I have a 1TB one and it is good.
 
Have you posted your SSD for sale on this forum, else pls share its details, price and warranty?

and how do I check old SSD before buying....?
No I haven't posted any NVME on sale. You should ask for a screenshot of crystaldiskinfo before buying. Refer the link that I have given. 500GB cost 4174/-. You can have it for cheaper if there are card discounts. Warranty is 5 years
 
Get the P1 only if you absolutely need a SSD as it uses QLC NAND and doesn't have much DRAM to speak of. In fact, it runs slower than HDDs for large writes or when the drive occupancy is very high. It is better than a SATA SSD but at the bottom of the NVMe pile.
Does P1 run at lower speed than WD BLUE SN550 500Gb or Kingston A2000, if yes, which other out of these two should be bought?
 
Does P1 run at lower speed than WD BLUE SN550 500Gb or Kingston A2000, if yes, which other out of these two should be bought?
WD and Kingston are faster, but in day to day tasks, you will not feel any difference. Even when loading huge games, the difference is in 1-2 seconds. In my opinion, save money and go for the cheaper drive. Crucial P1 is 500 Rs. cheaper than WD blue
 
Does P1 run at lower speed than WD BLUE SN550 500Gb or Kingston A2000, if yes, which other out of these two should be bought?
WD one uses 96 layer TLC NAND which is 3 bits stored per cell or 8 states compared to P1 which is QLC and thus has 4 bits or 16 charge states per cell. The short story is QLC uses a lot more writes to access data at a slower rate since it needs to differentiate between 16 values per cell instead of 8.

The physics of it makes QLC inferior in terms of speed and endurance but cheaper because less hardware is being used. QLC was made to replace hard disk drives and not to compete with TLC. Buy TLC if you can afford it but otherwise QLC is enough if you just want a SSD to replace a HDD.
 
WD one uses 96 layer TLC NAND which is 3 bits stored per cell or 8 states compared to P1 which is QLC and thus has 4 bits or 16 charge states per cell. The short story is QLC uses a lot more writes to access data at a slower rate since it needs to differentiate between 16 values per cell instead of 8.

The physics of it makes QLC inferior in terms of speed and endurance but cheaper because less hardware is being used. QLC was made to replace hard disk drives and not to compete with TLC. Buy TLC if you can afford it but otherwise QLC is enough if you just want a SSD to replace a HDD.
Your comment is misleading. Crucial P1 read write is about 1600 MB/s. Western Digital Green SSD is 450 MB/s and Western Digital blue HDD is 100-150 MB/s. As you can see, QLC NAND is 3 times faster than an SSD which is 4 times faster than a hard disk. Agreed that Crucial P1 is about 600 MB/s slower in reads than a WD blue SN550, but still, it is a fry cry from made to replace HDD and just like an SSD
 

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Your comment is misleading. Crucial P1 read write is about 1600 MB/s. Western Digital Green SSD is 450 MB/s and Western Digital blue HDD is 100-150 MB/s. As you can see, QLC NAND is 3 times faster than an SSD which is 4 times faster than a hard disk. Agreed that Crucial P1 is about 600 MB/s slower in reads than a WD blue SN550, but still, it is a fry cry from made to replace HDD and just like an SSD
Unfortunately, your post is extremely uninformed. You are trying to compare some different metrics, otherwise QLC does not compare favourably with TLC in any way. The P1 lags behind the SN550 in every test as you can see below, even though the SN550 itself is an entry-level TLC drive. On top of that it only has an endurance of 100 TBW compared to 300 TBW for the SN550 (500 GB variant).

The SN550 outperforms both the P1 with its extremely slow QLC write speed, as well as the DRAMless P2 and Silicon Power P34A60.


Irrespective of your extremely limited, best-case sequential test, Crucial posts the following on their site. The bigger the transfer and more the disk occupancy, the worse the performance gets on a QLC drive compared to a TLC one. Also note that the warranty is not applicable once the rated TBW is crossed, which also makes the 5-year warranty extremely limited compared to others.

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