870 EVO

I bought a brand new Samsung 870 Evo, while playing cyberpunk (this was like 2020) the game crashed to desktop. Thought it was because the game was trash. Turns out the entire drive fucking died. Not 1 sign of life on that thing 1 week after purchase. I returned it to Amazon and rebought, still goin

Your counterfeit suspicion is probably correct. The EVO 870 is one of the most cloned SSDs on the grey market and the missing vent holes plus the extra tab are both red flags. Genuine 870 EVOs have a specific PCB layout and the housing is dimensioned to standard 7mm 2.5" specs - anything that won't

“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

This is what I just did. You can get used Intel DC S3610 800 GB SSD on eBay for about $100 each. “eBay refurbished” with 12 months warranty. The difference in rated durability between the 800GB DC S3610 and a 500GB Samsung 870 EVO is absurd. 5.3PBW at 3DWPD vs 150TBW at 0.3DWPD. The Intel drives als

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

Yo ya me estoy pasando a SSD cuando puedo. Hasta un SATA, que ya es tecnología vieja comparada con NVMe, son mucho más rápidos. Sí, los discos duros pegan tirones en casi todo, a menos que sea mundial de viejo el software. Si podés, comprate un SSD SATA que sea TLC (no QLC, que esos son lentos) onda

I did a 1TB 3 years ago that has been working well: Samsung 870 EVO SATA III SSD 1TB 2.5” Internal Solid State Drive. Unfortunately the price for this thing went from $67 to over $400 now which sucks. You will start getting comparability issues with anything over a TB. I tried a couple bigger than t

one option is buying a 2TB Samsung 870 EVO and using a tool like HDAT2 to limit the drive’s reported capacity to around 1.5TB before installing it in the PS3. The PS3 tends to be much happier around the 1.5TB mark, whereas 2TB can be hit-or-miss depending on firmware, CFW setup, and partitioning. A

For that budget you can get way more than 4tb, don't waste it on a tiny SATA SSD. The 24tb recertified drives you're seeing are probably enterprise HDDs, they're loud, not really meant for a desktop sitting next to you. If you're set on SATA, just grab a Samsung 870 EVO in 4tb and call it a day, the

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.