guys, i'm looking to add 1tb nvme and i'll be using ugreen's nvme to pcie x4 adapter. so far I've looked on sn750, 970 evo and samsung 980 and tbh all the reviews is getting me a little mixed up

i'm going to be using it to store games so i guess they all would work fine, but among the 3, would it be safe to say that the 970 evo or sn750, even though dated, would still be a better overall performer compared to the 980 due to the dramless nature of the 980?

thanks for assuring about the dram. given the price point for the 970 evo is the same as the 980, would you suggest going for the 970 evo then? 970 evo plus is rm900+ but the 970 evo itself is basically same price as the 980

nice, i already ordered the ugreen one so i'll use that for now. thanks again for your recommendation

hi guys,

can anyone recommend a 2tb m.2 form factor drive mainly for data storage? I saw the NV1 and it seems cheap at around RM938 but the tbw seems pretty low. is there any better performer for around the 1k price range? also not sure if it's still relevant, but i'll likely torrent files to the same drive as well though i don't torrent often

i'm planning to go cableless for drives haha so gonna need m.2

WOW this one has 4400TBW for 2TB! even more than all of the nvme's i've seen. yea i'd be torrenting maybe once every 2 months or so, so it's really uncommon. i'm more worried of data integrity

how's the performance? what's the warranty also for it?

dem that's pretty good, and the price as well

i have not received my mte220s that i paid 1.2k for, maybe i can reject the delivery and pick up this cs3040 instead

yup that's pretty good. the mte220s is rated a 4400 TBW for 2tb but the speeds arent that great and it cost more

motherboard is still gen3 regardless but the cs3040 should be able to max out as well hmm. seriously considering to reject the delivery today

Ended up accepting the package for the MTE220S 2tb. To be honest I was kinda surprised by the write speed since it was more than the advertised speed for 2TB model in the website

every time ssd lifespan comes into discussion, i always see the keyword "don't put anything important in ssd", this kind of implies that ssds are not a safe place to store your data but isn't the same can be said to hdd?

basically if you get decent ssd's and get one with high endurance, you're kinda safe to go yea? I have encountered this in the past where I had BSOD on my plextor SSD (made in 2013) and upon reboot, some system files were permanently missing and this was one of the downside of SSD's back then. Are they still the same to this day with modern SSD's?

yup it goes without saying having multiple backup is good, and cloud backup is real handy and actually cheap if you only store key important files

yeah that was on an older system and it was an older ssd

i've had 26tbw on my 250gb 960 evo since 2017 and have never encountered that issue as well so i was thinking maybe that affected older drives when there werent much tech put into it

with lazada bonus RM9 for every 99, it seems that I can now get the CS3040 2TB for RM884

are there any known reliability issues with the E16 controller that this drive uses?

it was from PCByte, so they're pretty reputable, though it is an oddity that they could provide 2TB + 3600TBW + Gen4 for the price of sub 1k.

But I've actually cancelled my order cause wife was clearly unhappy with the purchase as she said I already bought too many NVMe's recently

I went with 32GB RAM instead

If the price difference is huge, then possibly. But I'm gonna guess they're both TLC which most are these days.

i've bought her stuffs actually, but it's just that i told her about my disappointment with the MTE220S cause i paid more for it than the CS3040, and she said she'll pay for it instead. that's probably why she got tilted since it was just a month ago or lesser

samsung 980 is their latest ssd but it's dramless compared to 970 evo plus which still includes dram cache. they claim the 980 uses system memory as cache instead.

IMO 970 evo plus is kinda outdated, for similar prices you can get pcie gen4 drives that are way better like the wd sn850, or if you're currently limited to a budget and dont have gen4 motherboard, the pny cs3040 1tb costs about RM700 and is an actual gen4 drive, and you'll be capped if using gen3 slots.

if you mean the MTE220S, i bought 2tb for rm1200

this is just my data drive, but im glad to say that performance wise, it's doing real good, though i'd recommend getting heatsink for it since it can get real hot

here's the cdm benchmark that i took before on default settings



and here's cdm benchmark that i just took on nvme settings