Just a curious question here which would help me to choose.

With the plethora of faster and faster DRAMless (HMB) Gen4 SSD, would it still make sense to go for slower Gen3 SSD with DRAM?

I mean would you still pick a Transcend MTE220 (3300R/2800W) over a Crucial P3Plus (5000R/3600W)?

I see. I intend to use either as a primary boot+windows drive for the next few years, while waiting gen4 SSD to come down in prices, which then I will swap windows to the newer drive and use the older SSD as a storage drive. Tbh, these TBW means nothing much to me, I had a MLC SSD supposedly with far higher TBW than TLC SSD but it failed on me after 3+ years of normal use.

Yeah very tempting at least 50% off the prices you get from local sellers but then if anything happen, no warranty yo And I would be wary of any too cheap deals from Amazon as I heard from Redditors that Amazon US is crawling with fakes and Amazon apparently don't even care, doubly if we are buying something that will not be covered by their customer protection policy. Unless ur living in SG, imho thats too risky.

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Feb 25 2023, 01:33 AM

Their P5Plus is also very tempting if anyone is willing to take the risk. Haha
https://www.amazon.sg/Crucial-Plus-PCIe-Gam...098WL46RS&psc=1

EDIT: Just to add, even buyers in SG would not be covered for warranty by their local distros if bought from Amazon so either way its too risky when local & SG distros will no cover you! Then that 5 year warranty is for show lel!


This post has been edited by babylon52281: Feb 25 2023, 01:42 AM

Oh wow how did you get such a discount?

https://www.techspot.com/news/97830-ssd-pri...0-year-far.html

I havent follow SSD trends, does it apply to Msia and is that means more good news for those waiting?

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/kingston-nv2-ssd/2
Toms put this in the Not Recommend category

If you only have Gen3 slot available, this would do fine as a storage drive but it would be wasted potential if chuck into a Gen4.

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Mar 9 2023, 09:03 AM

Rm190 is a damn good price but you do sacrifice warranty and risk having it gone and in use in some Kastam officers PC.

Nowadays midrange affordable NVME SSDs are commonly DRAMless, but the higher Gen4 speeds might better mitigate that buffer loss.

Now to find MTE220S 1TB is rare, I see shopee only got 2 seller now. While SN570 1TB mana mana pun ada. And Crucial P3 is HMB, Solidgm P41 is HMB, Kingston NV2 is HMB, all of these are HMB and 1TB easily to find everywhere. Face it, lower speed SSD with DRAM are getting phased out for HMB.

And 33% more expensive puts the KC3000 on another bracket of price segment in the upper midrange Gen4.

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Mar 11 2023, 03:25 PM

I know Ooree, had bought a Kingston mSATA SSD from them, their Q&A replies leaves much to be desired but its okay anyways, tho I think they might be related to the OK Globe that had refused to honour their wrong pricing that a forumer had shout out earlier. I'd be wary if they had a too good deal.

But yeah I was looking at Ooree shopee page last week I think 1TB was OOS then.

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Mar 11 2023, 10:40 PM

Dats a whole lot more drives than any MATX mobo have NVME slots

Got a link bro? I'd wary of really cheap drives as they could be really substandard C grade stuff or worse; fakes, which is very prevalent with SATA SSD nowadays

If you clone & reimage primary partitions over to new SSD, like using Macrium, no need to reinstall as everything should be exactly as before just only in a new drive.

If you reinstall Windows to the new drive then yes you need to reinstall all the programs again.

I think as long as its a popular and trusted brand, it can be faked. Moreso with SSD since the casing can hide something like this


But if seller is TMT then should be ori lah.

Yeah I suspected as much but somehow Ooree has better ratings than OK Globe. So I went for the former instead. Haha.

Sometimes too good to be true deals are just... too good to be true. Even if it looks genuine. Worse when you might not have buyers protection, and Amazon are quite the bottom of that.

https://www.techspot.com/news/98002-watch-o...sds-priced.html

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/fake-sams...eit-drives.html

If Direct Storage is optimised, that high bandwith will enable SSD to load hi res & 4K texture and mapping scenes direct to GPU

Still not ideal. PC grade SSDs arent designed for use in cars. You will need something like industrial grade type SSD. For ur dynamic use case try consider high storage SDXC cards, specifically those recommended for use in dashcams.
https://p--ltan.org/2022/05/02/dash-cam-mic...ce-hot-weather/

LOL Ada sauce?

8TB is like the max capacity for current SSD technology. That too on Enterprise drives, most consumer ones tops at 4TB. If its less than RM4k its not real, like those fake USB drives.

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Jun 24 2023, 12:51 PM

LOL This oso you can fall for. No wonder Msians so easily gets scammed!

Ur asking if this is real. Well what does common sense tells you? OMG much?