Thinking of getting a ~250GB NVME SSD for Linux dual boot use this CNY.

Looked around and seems like Kingston KC2500 is best for around ~RM150 price range.

Any other suggestions around that price range?
Already checked Silicon Power A60/A80, Corsair Force MP510

USB drives, even 3.0 ones are painfully slow these days
all the good flash is reserved for ssds

usb drives only good for casual storage and file transfer these days

USB HDD is enough to play games in my experience

Same capacity?
The BX500 is a dramless SSD
The KC3000 is a PCIe Gen 4 SSD
The peformance difference of them is huge
Get the KC3000

This post has been edited by PRSXFENG: Aug 6 2022, 12:15 PM

Personally I'll go with the MX500, dram is helpful especially if you want to use it as a boot drive

Personally I still love and prefer the Kingston KC2500, sadly it has been discontinued, but this seems like a nice alternative

Looking at SK Hynix site, seems like this is standard 2280, so no problems

Techpowerup launched their ssd database, they're still adding more drives in but there's some good technical specs on quite a few models in there already

https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/

The Transcend is just a basic PCIe Gen 3 ssd, fine for casual use, boot drive and os

The Kingston is new, PCIe Gen 4, faster if your system supports it, also great for boot, os and software, but may run hotter

the KC3000 replaced the old KC2500 which was a great value pcie gen3 drive
now the transcend took over the kc2500's place as it's discontinued

SP A55 is fine but seems like Silicon Power likes to change components around (such as the controller), so peformance may vary from online benchmarks and your one
PNY CS900, would avoid, it uses the Phison S11 controller, known to be unreliable and dies, supposedly fixed but I wouldn't trust it, can google SATAFIRM S11 for more info, Kingston A400 is also another one with the same controller, as well as many other budget ssd
no comment on the ADATA, seems okay

Personally I would go for Crucial MX500 but no 120gb model
But then again, seems like the T400 only supports SATA1 (1.5Gbps) speeds anyways
So no need to get such a high peformance drive

I would say get the SP or the Adata

Also do note there's quite a lot of scam fake ssds on laz/shoppe these days, mostly Kingston A400 and WD Green, sometimes some Samsung ones too but rarer.

dramless would be slower, but for your machine... probably doesnt make too much of a difference, still better to have it though

as for fake ssds, they're tough to spot, they even have the name of the real product and have real capacity too (eg you buy 1tb you get really 1tb. unlike those fake pendrives), but of course the components inside are cheap chinese knockoff
It would also not be detected by the oem software (eg, Kingston SSD Manager)
The listings just feel sketchy to me, you cant trust "100% authentic gurantee, lowest price gurantee, lots of 5 star reviews from shopee, everything can be faked, only for sure option is LazMall/Shopee Mall, so far didnt see any scams with those tier of sellers

but hey feel free to drop a link here to check before buying

cant blindly trust prefered or prefered+ too, those just mean more people chose them
but I've still seen some that are scams

anyways, consider this https://shopee.com.my/ADATA-ULTIMATE-SU650-...8521.7905409270
I have purchased from this seller before for other stuff

Generally I tend to avoid sellers from china, but now some scams have set their location and claim to be local seller
I also try to see if the seller has a presence outside of the online marketplace (eg, physical store, own website)

Macrium Reflect is the best
unfortunately they are discontinuing the free version
you could use the trial
or go hunt down the old free version


Usually SSDs come with bundled software too, like WD, Crucial, Kingston and many more brands all bundle Acronis True Image
not sure if ADATA does it

heatsink, if it fits I guess you might as well put it on

Can consider also Kingston NV2, similar price, but faster R/W

im using an older ssd from them, the KC2500, it was a pretty good value drive
the KC3000 that replaced it isnt that great in terms of value

NV2, seems good on paper, TLC nand, dramless but so is the PNY CS1031
pcie gen4 support although its speeds only reach gen3

I think the good midrange gen3 ssds with TLC + DRAM are becoming a dying breed

The MTE220S is probably on its way out, its fading away like the KC2500

so far the most common fakes I've seen are WD Green and Kingston A400

but I have seen Samsung ones too, in both SATA and M.2 form factor

Alright here's a more technical non judgemental explanation of why it is a fake SSD
If you buy it and connect it to your system, it does show 30TB to your system
They program the drive to report a fake capacity to the os

Once you run out of the real capacity (from like 8gb to 32gb), your data starts to get corrupted as it tries to write to storage cells that don't exist
They put some real capacity so when you try it out your think it's real

For more info see
https://youtu.be/wIi0MZZ3qBY
The video is for a 2TB USB drive but it's the same thing just larger fake capacity and a metal box

Boot: Transcend MTE220s or Kingston KC3000 depending on PCIE Generation
storage: maybe Kingston NV2?

Consider Kingston KC3000

It has DRAM
The dramless one would be Kingston NV2