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

I use a Samsung 870 EVO 1TB SSD and it works great. I paid a little over $100 last year at Best Buy. Not sure about the price these days though.

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

5+ years easy on a decent TLC ssd. avoid QLC drives, samsung 870 evo type stuff is solid. backup your seed though, drive matters less than that

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

Check what slot type you have first, M.2 NVMe, M.2 SATA, or 2.5 are all different. Once you know that, Samsung 870 EVO for SATA or Kingston NV2 for NVMe are both reliable and cheap.

I’m using a Samsung 870 EVO 1TB SSD in my HomeBase 3 and haven’t had any issues with it ever. Could be the drive.

SSDs can have issues in a PS3, but saying they corrupt just because PS3 doesn’t support TRIM is a bit too simple. TRIM isn’t supported, true, but decent SSDs like Samsung EVOs have internal garbage collection and wear leveling. Lack of TRIM is more of a long-term performance/maintenance concern than

External drive cloner or cloning using software on a computer would both work the same. I did this using a USB adapter and dd under Linux. Copied the original drive to a disk image, swapped the drive on the adapter, and cloned the image back to the new SSD. This is beneficial because I also wind up