970 EVO

Back in early 2023, Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB drives were going for under $30. Should’ve bought hundreds.

I read that a lot, but my Samsung 970 EVO 1TB still has only 1% wearout, it's running for about 3 years now. Are only cheap drives affected with low TBW?

Yeah, in short, these are the crème de la crème of SSDs and what every data center and AI slop shop is gunning for. These are basically considered enterprise class devices these days and price reflects it. DRAM cacheless SSDs are a lot more affordable with write penalties that may legitimately cause

You may be interested in Samsung 970 EVO Plus, WD Blue SN570, or Kingston NV2. Any of the Gen3 NVMe drives will work well, as they are all fast and quite easy to find when compared to Crucial. Just select the one that is the cheapest for you.

6800 is not a high end GPU. It's 2 generations old Mid tier. The 11500 is also a low tier chip. The 850w psu is way oversized. The ram is anemic and the ssd is the cheepest Samsung had to offer at that time. Overall, solid entry level beginner PC that I would never spec together as a new build. And

Does the SSD has any Dram/Hmb feature? I noticed my slowed down pc got rejuvenated after replacing my super cheap gen3 SSD with a Samsung 970 evo SSD

My super budget setup Running windows, poe and poe2 on Samsung 970 EVO Plus - very good to have a good SSD Had a ryzen 5 2600x - upgraded to ryzen 7 5800x . When i saw AI making ram price go up i just bought before everything else was affected, poe2 was a low fps mess but still playable, now im on s

i feel you on this one - same thing happened to my samsung 970 evo after three years. that red highlight usually means the bios sees the drive but can't boot from it. first thing - grab a usb stick and make a bootable hirens bootcd pe on another pc to test the ssd health. samsung magician software c

had a similar issue with an inspiron where the ssd would overheat and disconnect. flipping it over to cool down is a big clue - the controller chip might be failing when hot. first run dell's built-in diagnostics (spam F12 at boot). if that passes, back up anything important asap. you could try a co

i upgraded my omen 17's ram and ssd last year and it was totally worth it. the difference in load times and multitasking is huge for like $100. just check if your model uses sodimm slots and m.2 nvme. for ram i went with crucial 16gb ddr4 sodimm and for storage a samsung 970 evo plus. the install to