Storage Solutions Need advice for buying 500 GB SSD

DrkLord · 2021-11-02T11:26:49+0530

Guys I'm looking to buy a 500 GB SSD with great performance and endurance meaning the Read/Write speed drop should not be too much after 3-4 years of use. The SSD will primarily be used for coding and gaming. I have already got one 250 GB SSD which I use to run my OS on and was looking to get a drive with greater storage.

ishashank · 2021-11-02T11:42:57+0530

WD blue, 1TB is better though in terms of bang/gb. Don't worry much about endurance with your use case, should easily last 5+ years with a little bit health loss.

DrkLord · 2021-11-02T12:33:42+0530

ishashank said:
WD blue, 1TB is better though in terms of bang/gb. Don't worry much about endurance with your use case, should easily last 5+ years with a little bit health loss.

Sadly I haven't got the budget for 1 tb currently. I would have a total of nearly 600 gb of ssd space combining the 1 ssd i have and the 500 gb ssd I will buy. How do you find wd blue sn 550?

mr_mcfly · 2021-11-02T13:11:17+0530

Crucial MX500 is a pretty good SSD for the price

dhoomketu · 2021-11-03T09:30:26+0530

Kingston 500gb NVme Ssd also very good SSD. It comes with 5 years warranty.

kiran6680 · 2021-11-03T10:23:18+0530

It is not great to tell you what you want, but just in case it helps : performance of SSDs doesn't practically matter as much as people think. See :

In that test, for gaming and video editing, most people couldn't tell the difference between SATA, gen 3 NVMe and expensive gen 4 NVMe. Granted your use case is not gaming or video editing, but unfortunately a huge majority of PC testing is taking place for those use cases. Gives some food for thought to us programmers too.

So in case a slower 1 TB SSD is in your budget and a faster 500 GB SSD is not, you might think about getting the slower 1 TB SSD.

dexterz · 2021-11-03T12:19:14+0530

kiran6680 said:
It is not great to tell you what you want, but just in case it helps : performance of SSDs doesn't practically matter as much as people think. See :

In that test, for gaming and video editing, most people couldn't tell the difference between SATA, gen 3 NVMe and expensive gen 4 NVMe. Granted your use case is not gaming or video editing, but unfortunately a huge majority of PC testing is taking place for those use cases. Gives some food for thought to us programmers too.

So in case a slower 1 TB SSD is in your budget and a faster 500 GB SSD is not, you might think about getting the slower 1 TB SSD.

True. Only the screen load times improved on World of warcraft after upgrading from HDD to SSD. Only asset loading times would improve.

Stronk · 2021-11-03T12:57:48+0530

Have both the SN550 (1TB) and MX500 (M.2 500GB), can highly recommend both. I would recommend the SN550 500GB over the MX500 if at the same cost or priced very similarly, such as within ₹100 or so (and assuming your system can support a NVMe drive in the first place), otherwise get whichever is cheaper. Both are excellent drives.