From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all.
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 23:13:13 +0100 [thread overview]
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Am Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 01:02:31PM -0700 schrieb eric:
> When I click on the link, Amazon offers similar products of 1 TB NVMe M.2
> drives for a few dollars more with the links provided below. One is $14 more
> and the other is $5 more. I can not comment on how good they are as I don't
> have any experience with these types of drives.
>
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-2280-Internal-SNV2S-1000G/dp/B0BBWH1R8H
>
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Power-NVMe-Gen3x4-SP001TBP34A60M28/dp/B07ZGJVTZK
I admit I am a tech snob: While I don’t buy the most powerful stuff, I
wouldn’t want the low-end leftovers either. I tend to choose a good
middle-way between budget and quality. Quality not only means that it
reaches certain speeds and IOPS, but that it has a good amount of warranty,
both in years and in write volume. For example, the middle-tier SSDs have
five years of warranty (at least here on ye Olde Continent). So just going
by the price is something I would only do if money is truly tight and the
item is needed urgently. Raw speed is not everything, and you never know
what you might use the SSD for at a later date.
Therefore, I don’t recommend relying on just the price and on Amazon
descriptions. Amazon is the Wild West of tech resale; descriptions are
unreliable, inaccurate, out-of-date. I always prefer a price/product
comparison site which offers filtering for all kinds of technical
properties, or actual tech reviews (and not just articles that repeat what’s
on the package).
In my PC hardware forum at computerbase.de, some of the most-often
recommended budget NVMes these days are the Kioxia Exceria and the Lexar
NM790 series. They offer good performance, TLC flash and a warranty of 5
years and good TBW values. The Crucial E100 and Kingston NV2 for comparison
only have 3 years and low TBWs.
According to this two years old computerbase review, the NV2 *may* have good
part, but may not just as well. It’s one of those component lottery series,
for both the controller and the NAND flash:
https://www.computerbase.de/artikel/storage/kingston-nv2-ssd-test.82579/
(put it into google translate, if you’re interested to read it)
My above argumentation is what I mean by being a tech snob. It should work
fine in a USB enclosure with light loads, but I find it too low-end as a
system drive just to save a few bucks.
In April 2022 I bought a Samsung Evo 970 Plus a system drive. It’s not
high-end by any means (and it wasn’t back when I bought it), but good
middle-class. It’s only PCIe 3.0, but I wouldn’t notice a difference between
3.0 and 4.0 anyways. I wouldn’t even between SATA and slow PCIe.
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2025-02-24 18:58 [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all Dale
2025-02-24 19:20 ` Jack
2025-02-24 19:49 ` Dale
2025-02-24 19:40 ` Mark Knecht
2025-02-24 19:41 ` Rich Freeman
2025-02-24 19:53 ` Dale
2025-02-24 20:00 ` Rich Freeman
2025-02-24 20:34 ` Dale
2025-02-24 20:02 ` eric
2025-02-24 20:11 ` Mark Knecht
2025-02-24 20:44 ` Dale
2025-02-24 22:48 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-25 3:56 ` Dale
2025-02-25 10:08 ` Michael
2025-02-25 11:00 ` Dale
2025-02-25 11:16 ` Michael
2025-02-25 15:57 ` Dale
2025-02-25 17:05 ` Rich Freeman
2025-02-25 19:00 ` Michael
2025-02-25 19:18 ` Rich Freeman
2025-02-25 20:39 ` Michael
2025-02-25 22:16 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-25 14:48 ` Peter Humphrey
2025-02-25 17:00 ` Michael
2025-02-24 22:13 ` Frank Steinmetzger [this message]
2025-02-25 4:20 ` Dale
2025-02-25 8:18 ` Wols Lists
2025-02-25 14:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2025-02-25 8:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Wols Lists
2025-02-25 11:09 ` Dale
2025-02-25 12:26 ` Dale
2025-02-25 15:04 ` Rich Freeman
2025-02-25 15:32 ` Dale
2025-02-25 16:29 ` Rich Freeman
2025-02-25 17:26 ` Dale
2025-02-25 17:41 ` Rich Freeman
2025-02-26 14:43 ` Dale
2025-02-26 16:38 ` Michael
2025-02-26 20:34 ` Dale
2025-02-26 20:48 ` Mark Knecht
2025-02-25 20:19 ` Wol
2025-02-25 20:21 ` Michael
2025-02-25 21:34 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-26 7:52 ` Wols Lists
2025-02-26 16:44 ` Michael
2025-02-26 18:03 ` Wol
2025-02-26 18:05 ` Rich Freeman
2025-02-26 18:42 ` Wol
2025-02-26 19:26 ` Rich Freeman
2025-02-26 19:47 ` Wols Lists
2025-02-26 19:56 ` Rich Freeman
2025-02-26 21:25 ` Wol
2025-02-26 22:37 ` Michael
2025-02-26 16:41 ` Michael
2025-02-28 5:43 ` Dale
2025-02-28 16:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2025-03-02 16:01 ` Dale
2025-03-02 22:06 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-03-02 22:39 ` Dale
2025-03-03 3:01 ` Grant Edwards
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