Not that much choice since prices are up.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9vfxFT/msi-spatium-m461-2-tb-m2-2280-pcie-40-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-spatium-m461-2tb

Decent enough speed for gaming and 5 year warranty.

Silicon Power and Seagate are the ones I trust.

But prices are all messed up right now.

引用自 Rumpelcrutchskin：

Not that much choice since prices are up.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9vfxFT/msi-spatium-m461-2-tb-m2-2280-pcie-40-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-spatium-m461-2tb

Decent enough speed for gaming and 5 year warranty.

Cool, i will add it in my plan list and wait a bit before i decide, i also saw it locally online and thought about it but didn't confirm yet.

Thank you

引用自 Electric Cupcake：

Silicon Power and Seagate are the ones I trust.

But prices are all messed up right now.

I have few Silicon Power SSDs too, i can't judge how good they are, they got hotter than normal more than something else, for example my Kingston SSD didn't get hot that much as Silicon Power, also Samsung, and i found out that after a long time and many transferring this SP SSD getting affected in speed eventually until i free up some space and don't use it for long time to heat it up, i am not much into Seagate SSDs, i have HDDs from them.

引用自 tareqalhamrani：

引用自 Rumpelcrutchskin：

Not that much choice since prices are up.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9vfxFT/msi-spatium-m461-2-tb-m2-2280-pcie-40-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-spatium-m461-2tb

Decent enough speed for gaming and 5 year warranty.

Cool, i will add it in my plan list and wait a bit before i decide, i also saw it locally online and thought about it but didn't confirm yet.

Thank you

Not sure waiting is gonna help, unlike previous data center/cloud/AI inflated prices..(mem, GPU's) . .there are 2 things giving nand a headwind to normalize in a year or two:
1 few manufacturers/ and it's in everything, not just your PC
----1a and those manufacturers are gonna be nervous about expanding production in case it actually is a bubble.
2 It doesn't have a secondary market since you can't really re-sell it due to physical limited read/write

The leading manufacturer CEO is predicting prices might continue and stay inflated up to a decade, or even longer

引用自 DasKippa：

引用自 tareqalhamrani：

Cool, i will add it in my plan list and wait a bit before i decide, i also saw it locally online and thought about it but didn't confirm yet.

Thank you

Not sure waiting is gonna help, unlike previous data center/cloud/AI inflated prices.. . .there are 2 things giving nand a headwind to normalize in a year or two:
1 few manufacturers/ and it's in everything
2 It doesn't have a secondary market since you can't really re-sell it due to physical limited read/write

The leading manufacturer CEO is predicting prices might continue and stay inflated up to a decade, or even longer

Means?

I will wait only short time, not 1 year or more, i have to be clear more about my post, i meant that i will wait more suggestions and advises for short time, so i will wait few days maybe up to 1 week, i even can just decide today and order something if i get enough answers so then i come to a clear decision

引用自 tareqalhamrani：

引用自 DasKippa：

Not sure waiting is gonna help, unlike previous data center/cloud/AI inflated prices.. . .there are 2 things giving nand a headwind to normalize in a year or two:
1 few manufacturers/ and it's in everything
2 It doesn't have a secondary market since you can't really re-sell it due to physical limited read/write

The leading manufacturer CEO is predicting prices might continue and stay inflated up to a decade, or even longer

Means?

I will wait only short time, not 1 year or more, i have to be clear more about my post, i meant that i will wait more suggestions and advises for short time, so i will wait few days maybe up to 1 week, i even can just decide today and order something if i get enough answers so then i come to a clear decision

ahh ok, I mis-read

引用自 DasKippa：

引用自 tareqalhamrani：

Means?

I will wait only short time, not 1 year or more, i have to be clear more about my post, i meant that i will wait more suggestions and advises for short time, so i will wait few days maybe up to 1 week, i even can just decide today and order something if i get enough answers so then i come to a clear decision

ahh ok, I mis-read

Its ok, it was my fault, we are good.

I am still shopping around, i keep thinking about cheap or expensive SSD, 1TB or 2TB, if expensive then i must wait a bit like a week or so, but if cheap then i don't need to wait long, if i should just get 1TB for now and forget about 2TB for a while i can order it just now, the prices aren't good i know, but as long they are still not insane much i can manage to get one now, i am not a heavy gamer, just want something enough for few heavy or modern games not many, i keep thinking about 1TB, but mind keep saying "Buy 2TB then never look back for prices craziness or upgrade later", both are good plan anyway

My only point if the tea leaves are right, prices are only going to continue to increase, for longer than a year or two. If your waiting for a good deal.. . .your gonna be waiting a long damn time.

EDIT it isn't big news yet, still being masked by mem/gpus as well as the broader market (outside PC) peeps are waiting for holidays for major purchases (home improvement {electronics}, cars, appliances etcetrea. everything naand is in (which is pretty much everything these days)..sticker shock is likely to be very real about then. Even your food which doesn't use naand uses a logistics system that does<--- of course secondary/tertiary effects like that will take longer to get noticed. (depending on maintenance cycle/replacement/expansion) Those probably won't start being noticed till 2nd or 3rd quarter or later.

引用自 DasKippa：

My only point if the tea leaves are right, prices are only going to continue to increase, for longer than a year or two. If your waiting for a good deal.. . .your gonna be waiting a long damn time.

In this case i must go for 2TB by now then so i never worry about prices or upgrading from 1TB any soon, that is a good idea, in this case i must go for the cheapest 2TB i can find, i can't be sure if i wait even 1 week more the prices will suddenly change goes up again.

Living in a critical moment, i feel all those happened during certain period of time in our life mainly in this new century, i believe it became worse during that global financial crisis, then dunno which event, then came COVID, we can't control anything, but we aren't stopping, i was buying a lot of stuff during me lost my parents and lost my job and my budget or income is so low, just last year things changed and i got a job and increased another income resource i have, so i am better now, but even with that i try not rush buying everything in short time, i was lucky that i built 4 computers since end of the last year and beginning of this year, all four builds with AMD 9000 series CPUs, three of them already have DDR5 RAM and only two with GPUs, so despite the increase in prices i was lucky i did something during deals and nice discounts, now i am trying to slow down in buying and go for some cheaper options so later i could manage buy expensive items when necessary.

My gaming PC only lack let's say a main dedicated GPU and second SSD, i am almost decided on which GPU to buy, and i can start using my SSD of main drive until i can buy that second drive which is not very important now but it will be later, next year the remaining two builds i hope they will be complete.

By the way, for gaming, i am using Windows 11 in most of my computers, should i use Windows 11 25H2 version for gaming or the old one 24H2?

May as well go with 25H2, just reinstalled after the update failed (from 24h2) and had constant blue screen crashing... all stable after the fresh install 😔

引用自 Talby：

May as well go with 25H2, just reinstalled after the update failed (from 24h2) and had constant blue screen crashing... all stable after the fresh install 😔

I updated the one i am using now, but it is not mainly gaming or anything, it is a general usage PC, and no issues at all so far, i don't play games on it yet, i can play only simple old or not heavy big demanding games, but i do't have to test games on it if i won't use it for gaming, so updating to 25H2 was a breeze, now for my gaming build and productivity build as i will install new SSD in them i was thinking to install 25H2 directly, but what my concern about is that i read posts about people having issues in gaming with 25H2, mainly those 2-6 frames lose i think and not sure what else

PNY has one on newegg for 135 reading at 5k and writing at 4200 gen 4 2tb

MSI has one for 137 running almost the same specs....

just dont put your OS on it....find a left over M.2 or even a sata drive and put windows there....

引用自 smokerob79：

PNY has one on newegg for 135 reading at 5k and writing at 4200 gen 4 2tb

MSI has one for 137 running almost the same specs....

just dont put your OS on it....find a left over M.2 or even a sata drive and put windows there....

games do not need fast drive

put the os on the fastest drive, and games on the slower one

the only thing that games will have a difference with between a slow ssd and faster one, is the time it takes for steam to install them, and thats if its not cpu limited