What Type of SSD Should You Buy?

Confused about the different types of SSDs? Not sure which one you should put in your PC? Alaina breaks down the speeds and feeds as well as the form factors that you need to know about when making your decision.

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[PEDoers]

Excellent video Alaina, quick, complete and to the point :) I am one of those few that tend to put an M.2 (Boot Disk + Apps I want to load as fast as possible), a 2.5" SSD (Les Frequently used S?W and Daily data), and in most cases, a 7200 RPM (name Brand) Hard disk (interim storage and temporary backups) usually at least 2tb. All long term storage goes on Network NAS that is RAID-5. I tend to trim things down a bit before going to the NAS however, such as deleting the video clips I know I will never used long-term for the YouTube content I create.

[GK-yefr]

Great show! Thanks for the informative format. (Just a note. You have a very pleasant voice and really don't need background music - it was a bit distracting.)

[vcjester]

I didn't know Willis was the mix master in these videos. I just assumed our verticals and horizontals Adam did that. :p

[steven.events]

I installed Clover bootloader on older hardware today. It was seamless. M.2 SATA (bootloader) and NVMe (OS) SSDs on the same PCIe x4 adapter. 🚀

[purplecrayon]

Even though performance is pretty much similar across MLC, TLC, and QLC, there are durability differences, i.e. data loss, among these 3 types that are quite relevant and should be pointed out.

[OlettaLiano]

I now use only M.2 NMVe drives these days. I have a 1TB Gen4 for my boot drive, and three 2TB NVMe Gen3 drives for storage, two of them are in RAID 1

[juliocesar-bzon]

great job.
Julio Cesar
from Brazil

[DSP_Visuals]

For most people this video is aimed at, I would guess reliability will make a much bigger difference than the speed differences of any of the drive differences once you're talking about SSDs. Gaming, boot up, and program loading won't see much, if any difference from the fastest to the slowest SSDs.

[frankunderbush]

To save cost and maximize storage I have a weird setup:
2TB nvme as boot/software drive
2TB SATA as "crap" or game drive
12TB seagate exos running from a secondary PC as a media/older games drive. To my surprise, performance on these older games feel about the same as having a hard drive in the same computer, and all launchers except blizzard run games from the network drive flawlessly

[Eternalduoae]

Good video, very comprehensive and informative but my god was i triggered over the pronunciation of DRAM. 😅

[milohajek]

SAMSUNG, like Porsche, "There is no substitute"

[kaylaandjimbryant]

Just a quick tip, you might want to label the video as for newbies. I was actually thinking that this would be a video on topology. I am still trying to find a use case for QLC where my money doesn't get wasted quickly. You should do a video such as when to use QLC vs HDD. QLC kills tiself quickly in the wrong use case. At the rate some games update, I still use HDD for Steam (WD Gold 6GB) in addition to bulk semi-static storage due to cost and sheer reliability, while using a combination of SSD drives for boot, programs, and fast scratch storage.