BEST SSDs for CREATORS 👉SSD Buying Tips & Guide for Workstations and PCs.

How to choose the right SSD for your PC build? Here's creators perspective on how to choose the correct SSD without spending any extra on specs you don't need. Links below 👇

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0:00 Intro
0:39 Sponsored Segment
1:17 Gaming vs Creator SSDs
1:42 Why HIGH Read & Write speeds can be Useless
3:09 How SSDs work?
4:07 TBW - Tera Bytes Written (What does it mean?)
5:55 The best Storage Workflow
6:22 Most common TBW spec for SSDs
7:05 ULTIMATE SSD 4 Creators - Seagate FireCuda 530
8:49 OS Drive Suggestions
9:12 Cache Drive Suggestions
9:41 Archive Drive Suggestions
10:25 Teamgroup Cardea C440 - Ultimate TBW Spec
12:14 Conclusion

[milospavlovic]

I disagree that TBW is the most important specification. Firstly because not many people will rewrte 33% of their capacity every day for drives of 500GB or more, for anything other than Chia mining (if you are mining chia then it is an important thing), and if you are, you will probably want to replace the drive for something faster long before yor rated TBW limit is reached. Secondly, the drives don't just magically stop working after the TBW limit is reached, just their warranty expires, and the probability of drive faliure increases with use. Hence, I would rather go with someone who I believe will actually honor their warranty (heard about it being a complicated process in caseof Seagate) than the TBW number they decide to slap on. I would not use some cheap ramless ssd as a boot drive on anything else than reviving an old laptop (like that Kingston A400, WD green, Crucial BX, or cheap Aliexpress drives), and also QLC as a boot drive seems like a bad idea as performance tanks suddenly after you fill your cache. Basically anything other seems like a good enough option that you will not see much difference, especially if it is NVME

[mingming]

if your cache requirement is not very big, consider using RAM drive, which is faster than even the fastest ssd and has no write limit.

[sigis]

I own a 1TB FireCuda 520 and it was certainly it's longevity that drove the decision

[MikeLisii]

After watching a lot of videos regarding pc components in last 2 weeks I found out that your videos are edited the best. I know its not as important factor as actual content but I really appreciate your crisp audio since you have a lavalier attached the soft background music to create a cool vibe and the nice soft warm light and probably grading. The content is also on par with everything else keep up the good work

[Andrea-Zerg]

Finally someone that points out something that I have been telling other people. but there are a few points that are left out. latency that some drives offer, eg optane and over provisioning. most drives slow down alot when they are near the 80% capacity mark. how the drives does TRIM and use TBW also depends on the remaining space. doing OP of 10-15% extends the life ALOT. and U.2 SSD drives are not covered.

[AwesomeSauceShow]

Actually, if we talked about performance the most important spec, is random read and write. I know you set the "best" performance metric to be longevity of the drive, but don't forget the random read and write speed as that is what determines the responsiveness or latency of the drive :)

[JumpCutJake]

Thanks for filling in the gap on YouTube for creator PC building. These reviews are golden!

[harisuthar]

Hi youtuber, an excellent your explanation to viewers. Many thank to you

[Joehirst]

I was actually looking at the T-Foce NVMe SSD just yesterday as an extra drive for when I retire my aging iMac and switch to windows full time. Thanks for the info on longevity. I'm pretty sure I'll pick up the 440 given it's very likely to outlive almost any other drive. Super useful info! Much respect.

[ApeironSound]

Just in time before a new build, thank you!

[py]

I've been using SSDs for OS/office softwares/gaming since 2005 and they still run without any problems. I am looking for a 1TB M.2 SSD for my gaming laptop right now and it's good to learn from your video.

[RicardoPenders]

I have one of the first Samsung SSD's, it's the 840 Pro series and it's a 250GB capacity drive, I have set a 10% over provisioning, I am using it today for 9+ years and I've written 80TB written on the drive and the wear leveling count is now 76%... I think this might be interesting for people who are scared to get errors or other problems, take this from my experience you don't have to be scared at all and you'll have a new pc before you have to get a new drive.

[axentic]

This is funny how different brands building SSDs using the same components making claims of ridiculously different TBW!
Seagate with its Firecuda 530 is no exception - controller Phison 5018-E18 along with 176-layer Micron memory is very common SSD PCIe4 combination nowadays. Dozens of brands sell exactly the same SSDs (including Cardea Zero Z440, Kingston KC3000, etc).
The only dfference is the BS numbers sold to consumers under those brands.
The number of TBW is nothing but the memory endurance indication and the promise made by manufacturers to consider an RMA if things go South. And here comes to play the marketing game who makes the bolder assumption that an average consumer is not going to reach the dangerous wear level within the warranty period.
The brand of SSD is irrelevant to the actual memory wear-out/endurance. E.g. 176L Micron is NOT going to be more durable under Seagate label than the same memory under Crucial label.
Now look at TBW numbers for exactly the same memory claimed by Crucial vs Seagate vs T-Force:
1TB Crucial P5+ = 600 TBW - (I suppose you know that Crucial belongs to Micron and they know their own memory endurance exactly)
1TB Seagate 530 = 1275 TBW
1TB Cardea Zero Z440 = 1800 TBW
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I am not sure how TBW can be the "most important" parameter if it is simply made up by marketing departments...

[RadekPogoda]

Thanks for this material as I am on the starting line to upgrade my workhorse. I would buy other products, but after this - I will start looking for those factors as well.

[coreyjohnson]

2 reasons why your videos are solid. 1 - you put things in perspective for people who edit; 2 - you are about the only "normal" review channel that has a solid soundtrack that makes use of my subwoofer!

[joselitocamacho]

thank you so much. i had been watching many YouTube videos about ssd’s. no one explained ssd in this matter.

[abidhassan]

It's one of the most important video on SSDs... Thank you

[Sera_Vaz]

Wow! This is extremely new information! I have not heard about this in any of the 20 YouTube channels I have surfed. Now I know what SSD to purchase! Thank you so much, Tech Notice!

[calldeltosell]

I think it's little more than just a rating offered by the manufacturer.

Have you ever bought a set of tyres or a car battery? Ever noticed that there may be some quality difference, while it's mostly associated with the likeness of the manufacturer having to make good on part replacement vs marketing advantage by the infinitesimal number of people that would potentially care.

So, how would you know how many times the nands were written? Is there any assurance on - or compensation by the manufacturer for data loss?

Sure, various companies hold the patents on a wide variety of chip making progress and scale - there could be value in the rating of expected operations before fail.

I would submit the temperature of the drive over its life is more significant than a theoretical number on hypothetical scenario. ...just an alternative viewpoint.

[sunilkc]

Awesome video! I ended im getting the SK Hynix P31 2tb. Its a gen3 nvme but it suits my needs enough