About this Offer: This sale price matches todays deal of the day offer from Best Buy and the 2TB is $23 less than this former FrontPage Deal from November.
Warranty: Includes 5-Year Manufacturer's Warranty for parts
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About this Offer: This sale price matches todays deal of the day offer from Best Buy and the 2TB is $23 less than this former FrontPage Deal from November.
Warranty: Includes 5-Year Manufacturer's Warranty for parts
I would say for gaming any NVME PCIe drive will do, no specific need for TLC or DRAM.
I bet your son will hate an external drive to swap games, in the long run and too many games/backups, that may become a need as well...
But first of all, just make sure your computer has another M.2 slot available.
If not, I would go with a regular SSD drive, something like Crucial MX500 or BX500.
Who knows. That definitely is a problem with brands like Kingston, you never know what you're gonna get. I guess it might not even be Toshiba at any given time.
is the Kingston for certain TLC? i thought it could be QLC or TLC - whatever is available in Kingston's storage closet
My understanding is that you won't know until you open the Kingston package.
Based on their description, all they will guarantee is that it meets the published specs.
For example, they'll meet the 640TBW.
I doubt their marketing materials will specifically call out QLV or TLC.
I'm guessing that unless I plan on upgrading next year, there is no advantage in "future-proofing" with a PCI gen 4 drive and this P3 should be enough for a games drive.
aka... But this and lunch vs the P3 Plus
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is the Kingston for certain TLC? i thought it could be QLC or TLC - whatever is available in Kingston's storage closet
Who knows. That definitely is a problem with brands like Kingston, you never know what you're gonna get. I guess it might not even be Toshiba at any given time.
Trying to figure out what to get my son for his computer. Bought him a computer a few months ago that came with 512 GB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Performance TLC. He wants more storage for games and wondering what kind of storage do I need, i.e. something like this, a 2.5 SSD or just an external storage device. Any info would be appreciated.
Trying to figure out what to get my son for his computer. Bought him a computer a few months ago that came with 512 GB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Performance TLC. He wants more storage for games and wondering what kind of storage do I need, i.e. something like this, a 2.5 SSD or just an external storage device. Any info would be appreciated.
I would say for gaming any NVME PCIe drive will do, no specific need for TLC or DRAM.
I bet your son will hate an external drive to swap games, in the long run and too many games/backups, that may become a need as well...
But first of all, just make sure your computer has another M.2 slot available.
If not, I would go with a regular SSD drive, something like Crucial MX500 or BX500.
Trying to figure out what to get my son for his computer. Bought him a computer a few months ago that came with 512 GB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Performance TLC. He wants more storage for games and wondering what kind of storage do I need, i.e. something like this, a 2.5 SSD or just an external storage device. Any info would be appreciated.
Sadly it seems like windows can't really take advantage of the M2 drives as you'd think.
An analogy I like, think of it as a super car (NVME) against a Ford Escort (Sata). But you're stuck in rush hour traffic.
A 2.5 ssd would be fine. External? Good for backups but I wouldn't game on one if I could help it.
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I bet your son will hate an external drive to swap games, in the long run and too many games/backups, that may become a need as well...
But first of all, just make sure your computer has another M.2 slot available.
If not, I would go with a regular SSD drive, something like Crucial MX500 or BX500.
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Based on their description, all they will guarantee is that it meets the published specs.
For example, they'll meet the 640TBW.
I doubt their marketing materials will specifically call out QLV or TLC.
I'm guessing that unless I plan on upgrading next year, there is no advantage in "future-proofing" with a PCI gen 4 drive and this P3 should be enough for a games drive.
aka... But this and lunch vs the P3 Plus
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I bet your son will hate an external drive to swap games, in the long run and too many games/backups, that may become a need as well...
But first of all, just make sure your computer has another M.2 slot available.
If not, I would go with a regular SSD drive, something like Crucial MX500 or BX500.
An analogy I like, think of it as a super car (NVME) against a Ford Escort (Sata). But you're stuck in rush hour traffic.
A 2.5 ssd would be fine. External? Good for backups but I wouldn't game on one if I could help it.
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PlayStation 5 support document state's the recommendation of a supported PCIe Gen4 x4 M.2 NVMe SSD has the Capacity of 250GB to 4TB, Sequential Read speeds of 5,500MB/s or faster
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