SSD Suggestion!

[Ahnaf_i7X]

Dear fellow gamers,

I think I've gathered enough money to buy a decent SSD. Budget: 8K
256GB is preferred.

Main purpose: Reduce game loading times.

I would like ur kind suggestions based on the given budget.

Thanks.

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Tagging tech gurus: @VANGUARD @Fox Mulder

[Véиòmøûs Vàmþý]

Samsung 860/960(Whichever suits your budget) EVO 256 Gb eyes Closed.

[Sybaris Caesar]

Hear apu's suggestion i7x

[dipanzan]

https://www.startech.com.bd/samsung-evo-850-250gb

See if you can manage this somehow. It was 8.8k at Startech when they had in stock.

[VANGUARD]

Dear fellow gamers,

I think I've gathered enough money to buy a decent SSD. Budget: 8K
256GB is preferred.

Main purpose: Reduce game loading times.

I would like ur kind suggestions based on the given budget.

Thanks.

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Tagging tech gurus: @VANGUARD @Fox Mulder

Never go for any TLC based ssd. NEVER.

[Ahnaf_i7X]

Never go for any TLC based ssd. NEVER.

thanks for the heads up

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I cant seem to find the 850 evo in stock anywhere

[VANGUARD]

thanks for the heads up

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I cant seem to find the 850 evo in stock anywhere

all the EVOs are TLC. Avoid.

[Sybaris Caesar]

thanks for the heads up

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I cant seem to find the 850 evo in stock anywhere

Don't listen to him. You'll probably die by a bicycle before you ever fill up Samsung TLC lifespan.

[Ahnaf_i7X]

all the EVOs are TLC. Avoid.

uhhh bummer, any particular brand u would recommend then?

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Don't listen to him. You'll probably die by a bicycle before you ever fill up Samsung TLC lifespan.

now im so confused

[Fox Mulder]

I don't know much about SSDs. sadly. But if Vanguard bhai says TLC is bad for you, TLC is bad for you.

[Swapnil]

Don't listen to him. You'll probably die by a bicycle before you ever fill up Samsung TLC lifespan.

Lifespan isn't the issue with TLC, sequential write speed is. They become slower than a 160GB hitachi HDD after the 4 or so GB of cache is used up in a single file copy.

[Ahnaf_i7X]

I'm eyeing this one:Transcend 256GB SSD230S

7,900 (@Ryan scomputers) which fits perfectly in my budget. Doesn't clearly state TLC or MLC so is it any good?

[Swapnil]

I'm eyeing this one:Transcend 256GB SSD230S

7,900 (@Ryan scomputers) which fits perfectly in my budget. Doesn't clearly state TLC or MLC so is it any good?

"...3D NAND..." and "...built in with SLC caching technology..." and "Flash Type TLC NAND flash" (source). Definitely TLC.

If you absolutely have to buy TLC SSD, buy Samsung EVO. It's the least TLC than other TLCs.

[SoMoN.Khan]

Samsung ssd is good but transtech is not that good from my experience.
I m using Adata XPG one for like 6 yrs and it still performing good.
You can give adata a try.
my frnd get nume samgsung ssd and it is best from my experience.
If u can bring from abroad and ur mb support this, then get this, this is best idea.

[Ahnaf_i7X]

"...3D NAND..." and "...built in with SLC caching technology..." and "Flash Type TLC NAND flash" (source). Definitely TLC.

If you absolutely have to buy TLC SSD, buy Samsung EVO. It's the least TLC than other TLCs.

Thanks for the info.

As far as I can tell, MLC is expensive and I can't find a 250GB one within my budget.

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Guess I'll keep an eye out for the samsung one. Thank you all.

[sensei]

You can try gskill ssds too they are affordable and quite reasonable in price , using one of them for 2 months now seems quite good on both loading and game boot times . This is true that tlc memories are not so different than installing on hard drives but for loading time it hardly matters tbh and i didn't feel any negligible problems either and afik samsung evo ssds specially old one's might not come anymore so basically if you really want to go for then nvme ssds would be the best option as it saves your hard drive space and installing is quite easy but make sure your motherboard supports it or not

[occasional_gamer]

Huh. I feel lucky now. Bought one of the last remaining Evo 850s when I built my rig a few weeks back.

[VANGUARD]

Transcend 370s. Adata xpg. And....... Some other things. Too drunk to remember right now. Pardon.