870 EVO

“One important thing to know: the BX500 is a DRAM-less budget SSD, so it’s perfectly fine for game storage, general use, media, or reviving an older PC, but it’s not as strong for heavy write workloads, VM use, or a main high-performance OS drive compared with something like a Samsung 870 EVO or a g

It's a pretty hot topic. I also base my setup on two 2TB Samsung 870EVO SSDs, and honestly, I've never had any problems, even with very long sessions in Prores Raw HQ at 5.9K. I haven't encountered any problems even when updating. Samsung EVO SSDs differ from Samsung Pro SSDs in how they manage writ

Yup, I have a couple of 2.5" SATA drives. I have a Samsung EVO 870 500GB that I use for my OS/boot drive and a 1TB Lexar NQ100 which I use for games. Then I have three NVMe's, a 2TB & a 1TB are my mains and a 512GB one that I use in an external USB enclosure. There's basically no difference in gamin

Seagate IronWolf for 3.5 storage beast crucial P5 Plus NVMe snappy AF Samsung EVO 870 solid choice

Yup, surprisingly chilly for a 90nm RSX - it's actually about 10c better than my 2008 CECHH (-1GB 90nm, which does run cooler than most 90s) although this and my CECHB are set to run on 31-32% fan speed. An audio tradeoff I'm willing to take to keep them alive as much as possible. And surprisingly t

The biggest performance upgrade IMO is replacing the HDD with a SSD. Watch out for cheap SSDs though, they likely will not have a DRAM cache, the unbranded or obscure branded ones particulary. Personally I'd always go for a known performance brand with a DRAM cache, e.g. Samsung 870 EVO or WD Blue S

maybe a drive issue? I'm on a samsung 870 evo (external) and my game loads SUPER fast

I’m running a 1st gen i7-875K overclocked to 4Ghz, 16GB Kingston Fury DDR3 1600MHz CL10, EVGA GTX 980 TI SC, Samsung 870 Evo SSD and I get 7.6. Not too concerned as it’s plenty fast and runs every game from that era on max settings. In your case, maybe try overclocking to get that additional .1 you’

samsung 990 pro is overkill for ps5 but the 870 evo plus runs games just as fast for like 40 quid less

Is the m.2 slot an nvme slot? Or or is it sata? You didn't identify the laptop. M.2 nvme would be a better long term investment, but why are you considering sticking with sata? I still use SATA for some things (swap bays for multiboot). They're not that much slower than nvme for most things (like ru