960 EVO

WD green is the cheapest WD there is, so yeah...but it did last 5 years, so it was not too bad. My recommendations: Sata: WD RED, Samsung 960 EVO, 970 EVO, Kingston KC600. NVME(doesn't have to be gen 3, a gen 4 or gen 5 is backwards compatible): Samsung 980, 980 Pro, 990 Pro (pro versions are faster

Your issue sounded eerily similar to mine except the culprit was the NVME died. ADATA in 2021 made garbage NVMEs and I bought 2 of their 1TB drives and made one of them my boot drive. I thought my X870E Taichi & 9950X3D rig of a year plus was a goner but nope, just cheap drive. Ironically my boot dr

I don't love where the recommendation came from, but that's a personal thing. It's actually a pretty good recommendation. DDR3 is about the only cheap RAM. Ivy Bridge officially bumped up to DDR3-1600 although many nicer boards can do even higher (although it's not necessary), and NVME in a PCIE ada

There likely won't be any difference, over the past ~12 months I migrated my SC installation between three SSD, Samsung 960 Evo, Samsung 970 Evo Plus and now finally my most recent Lexar NM790. Looking back I couldn't tell an actual difference between any of these and I personally doubt PCIe 5.0 wou

Hatte mir im August 2025 eine Samsung Evo Plus 4TB gekauft, wollte meine alte Samsung 960 EVO 500GB auf diese clonen, mittels Rescuezilla. Klappte auch soweit, aber nachdem einbauen der 4TB Platte und booten gabs blauen Bildschirm meckerei. Mehrere Stunden hin-und her gedöddelt. Im blauen Bildschirm

It's time to upgrade my old rig (2017 high spec build), I have a budget of around £1100 and I'm wanting to save money if possible. Can someone please sanity check the below and tell me if I'm right or wrong on what I'll be able to keep, and whether I should think about changing a few bits around? Th