Your MOST Requested Gen4 SSD Tested

[@MrAlexander100]

Bought an 870 Evo and a 970 Evo Plus yesterday and i am really happy. Your reviews on ssd's are very good and informative !!!!

[@gustavogavp]

Friend, how about the performance and speed of your Samsung 870 Evo and 970 Evo plus? Have you had any problems with them? Have you updated to the latest firmware?

[@DeuxVitae]

Going for the Kioxia. Its quickly becoming the people's champion with a perfect price to performance ratio.

[@glkcox]

Thanks for adding the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus to the dataset. With mid-table performance, I can see why it didn't get its own video!

[@TechTesters]

I still plan to do a video, it's just I only have so many hours in a day :)

[@AdjointGaming]

Went for the recommended KC3000. Amazing !!!

[@ToddKortte]

OMG perfect timing! I am buying my SSDs today and wanted some reassurance. I am going for the CORSAIR MP600 PRO LPX. Especially after your review a few weeks ago. I have been following you for several months, LOVE your channel! I used to live in Holland, Tot ziens!

[@hontam7118]

Great info! Crucial's across the range have all been pretty good price:performance. But the frequent discounts on Samsung's (in Australia at least), just pip them for value.

[@HasTakes]

Finally you reviewed the Crucial P5 Plus

[@crzyces1693]

Just picked one up and in the US you can grab the 2TB model for $159.99-$179.99 an Amazon, or a consistent $169.99 from the Crucial store. I'm not sure if I was lucky with the silicon or my makeshift heatsink made up of 6 mini heatsinks with adhesive on the bottom (I built a retro cyberpunk/industrial aesthetic PC so it works well) let's it stretch its legs a bit, but the read/writes of 6700/5900 are faster than what it is rated for, so I'll take it! Whatever the case, even at slightly lower than rated speeds its still a fantastic drive in general, and *great* for the money. Coming in lower than many of the 2TB gen 3 drives, this is a no-brainer pickup for some extra storage in a gaming PC, as well as media, home office, as an external device, and of course, for a PS5. As stated, I am not just satisfied, but thrilled with the product. With the provided warranty in addition to the rated hours of use this drive should last most users essentially forever, with little, if anything to worry about when it comes to dead sectors unless you're a Hollywood animator type of user, in which case a 2TB drive shouldn't be your main scrub drive anyway ;^p .

[@davepianist84]

Excellent video Nada!

[@fleemwings207]

I don't think a heat spreader is an issue for new builds as most decent motherboards come equipped with them. However upgraders will probably need to buy one.

[@johnnywoolen1453]

The queen of SSD reviews has spoken.

[@Rocky_KO]

That SN770 absolutely slaps. How the heck is it at the top spots for quick and full benchmark? I thought the SN850 was a superior drive for normal users.

[@koreanguymin3873]

No joke. For 4k performance, SN770 just rocks. Sustained write speed is where it suffers, but for day to day tasks like OS, web browsering, gaming, code compilation, 770 is actually really good.

[@Shadowat00]

I get the Kingston KC3000 512GB at a price lower than SN770 500GB 😎

[@DragunnitumGaming]

Just discovered your channel and i LOVE it! I can't believe i didn't know about your content sooner! 😭❤️🌹

[@qT_p13]

Vault guy holding on really tightly to this one. Thanks.

[@AndrevwZA]

One of my favourite brands. Pitty that it is not "one of the cheaper drives" here in South Africa.

[@twanc156]

YESSS THANK YOU FOR THIS REVIEW

[@the-patient-987]

Another excellent video!

[@IsaandAli]

$199 in amazon for the 2TB, not bad.

[@vitorcristiano9744]

Lexar nm800 Netac NV 7000 wish i could see testing of these 2 4.0 drives against the more known ones

[@dunknow9486]

Hope to see a review on WD black 850x

[@wadalzain5]

Excellent review, thank you.

[@TazzSmk]

2TB Crucial P5 Plus and 2TB Kingston KC3000 are most reasonably priced Gen4 NVME SSDs right now here in Central Europe, I assume KC3000 is tier higher performance-wise, IF properly cooled?

[@TechTesters]

Slightly higher, if the price difference is small enough.

[@emersonboscariol1000]

Thanks, nice review.

[@thomas1699]

Crucial Storage Executive does not work at all with other brand name drives.

[@badbot4ever566]

Now is the time to buy SSD’s . Thanx for the video.

[@davidjames4583]

Awesome review !! 👍 !!!

[@GamingCheeto]

Just bought the 2TB crucial p5 plus for $95 Incredible deal, unfortunately my mobo doesn't support gen 4 so limited to gen 3 for now

[@gustavogavp]

Friend, how about the performance and speed of your Crucial P5 plus?

[@fraxesz1598]

Good benchmark.

[@ronm6585]

Thank you. 👍🏻

[@DanielFNG]

Any plans to review the Dell G3223Q 32" 4k 144Hz monitor? Just asking as your reviews of other monitors in this class have been great and there's very little out there about it at the moment!

[@arslannamberdar1222]

Nice info Love from India ❤

[@ThePreciseClimber]

If I use a PCIe 4.0 SSD with a PCIe 3.0 laptop, is it okay not to use a heatsink? I assume it's not gonna overheat if it's limited to 3.0 speeds.

[@wannachating]

i am still confuse between 980pro and sn770..? previously you make videos without Spectacles, that look better :) (it a personal choise btw)

[@techluvin7691]

The problem with all these heatsinks is that they cover the entire Nvme when they actually only need to cool the controller. That’s where the heat problem lies.

[@koreanguymin3873]

But that SN770 is so darn impressive

[@TranceHistorian]

It's also expensive

[@diegooliveira1083]

No d-ram

[@ihavenoname3925]

what if put this on laptop can laptops have heatsink?

[@tehdreamer]

KC3000 costs the same as Crucial P5 plus here in UK.

[@TechTesters]

In that case I’d get the KC3000.

[@tehdreamer]

@@TechTesters Decided not to because I have G15 Zephyrus laptop and its recommended only for single sided SSDs, KC3000 has chips on both sides. Plus it runs hot. So I went for a slower NV2 Kingston drive which is single sided. Heard Crucial P5 can overheat and disconnects in my laptop.

[@Michplay]

Deze gen 4 SSD reviews zullen het goed gaan doen als Direct storage games populair gaan worden

[@mapioskoloni9784]

Is there an external USB-C enclosure that you'd recommend for this drive for capturing video? And is there one that may even fit a heatsink?

[@TechTesters]

I haven't really tested many separate enclosures. The only one I personally use is the Cooler Master one which does cool the SSD properly and it's quick to swap SSDs in, but it's clunky and heavy compared to most externals.

[@mapioskoloni9784]

It's kind of pricey, compared to a lot of other ones in the category, but I'll give it a shot if indeed it cools the drive properly, because I want to use it on my camera rig as external storage. Thank you much.

[@steve2me414]

Do you think G5 will be that much better then G4? ( knowing MS DR S is coming )

[@HaniOveissy]

I have a plan to buy an SSD for my Acer Swift 3 SF315 (8250U, MX150, FHD) Laptop. It has 128Gb SSD, but I want to upgrade it. Which one do you suggest I buy? Samsung 980 pro 500GB or Samsung 970Evo Plus 1TB?

[@HorstJt]

How many SSD reviews would you like? Techtesters: yes.

[@0darkwings0]

What 16gb DDR5 4800mhz RAM Company do you suggest for ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 (2022)? (I got this laptop just with one 16GB)

[@Nomokuto]

Which m.2 ssd will get hotter, the boot drive or the one with games/documents? Like which one should be on the top slot with the cooler and which on the back. Both gen4 probably

[@TechTesters]

Unless you really stress a drive, like with a video editing scratch drive, neither should get very hot. But between the two, id expect a large game library to warm up more than a boot drive ;)

[@nyiceone2075]

best value at the time of this comment...2TB for 122$. Great Deal

[@StardustOneReviews]

The Crucial P5 Plus must be used with a heatsink, because it is completely useless without. Don’t even think about considering to install it in a notebook. It thermal throttles extremely even when reaching 60+ degrees.

[@bhushan2k]

Can you please review WD green 2tb NVME? I am looking for cheapest option for storage. I have only NVME connection inside Asus TUF f15 2022.

[@tigerbalm666]

I've decided to get a SN770...

[@theeditingdepartment9421]

I've heard the aorus gen4 ssd has been failing within 2-5 months.

[@Marcushin]

Please, do you explain the encript function? In thats nvme discs

[@bobgame763]

What happens when you reach the TBW limit by using only 60% of the drive? Will it become a read-only drive instantly?

[@whyjay9959]

From what I understand you just lose the warranty. Wear is not so predictable. The drive will spread the work over all of its parts regardless, so the TBW count is for all of it. Though keeping a portion of it empty should still make its internal workings easier, preserving performance and possibly allowing it to do less writes for the same tasks in practice.

[@blamethedingus2470]

TBW is a calculation based off of writing for 24/7 365 so xGB per day/* 365/ * years of waranty = total write endurance per day which is always severely underestimated for the safe side of things, but 99% of consumer use is not going to write like that

[@yoyoyo7083]

How different is M.2 SSD and Gen 4? Are they the same type?

[@whyjay9959]

Those are completely different aspects. M.2 is a form factor- The shape, which also says what kind of slot you can connect the drive to. Gen 4 refers to the 4th generation of PCIe- A standard of data connection between the CPU and other components, allowing for roughly double the speed of Gen 3. This is an M.2 drive with a PCIe gen 4 connection.

[@yoyoyo7083]

@@whyjay9959 Oh, okay. Thanks.

[@Grolmusl]

Good days. It is normal that in load with heatsink Is temperature ( p5 plus) about 70 Celsius? Thanks

[@TechTesters]

70 C under load is fine :)

[@danielfernandezaguirre]

If I run on Pcie 3.0 would I need a heatsink as well or the lower speed wont heat it as much?

[@cutcorners6005]

Motherboards come with heatsink nowadays so you dont really need to spend extra.

[@AngelAngel-kr6ii]

currently am looking out for a 2TB for OS, Crucial P5+ $135 WD SN770 $118 Crucial P3+ $125 Crucial P3 $97 Any kind advice on which is more suitable (DRAM vs DRAMless, using 2*DDR5 4800mhz 16gb) and worthed?

[@TechTesters]

I'd personally pick the P5+ for the DRAM cache from that list :)

[@AngelAngel-kr6ii]

@@TechTesters Thanks for the input. Yeah am struggling to decide between P5+ and SN770 while im reading up on DRAM vs DRAMless and the strong performance (and yet cooler) of SN770 as i'll be switching over to a mini pc 7735HS

[@merrq1]

Which one did u end up picking? Im also tied between sn770 and p5+ and using it for my main os, everyday drive

[@AngelAngel-kr6ii]

@@merrq1 i gotten sn770 for the lower temp as its for my mini pc. P5+ supposedly slightly better performance but can get up to 70°c++, thus heatsink highly recommended

[@merrq1]

@@AngelAngel-kr6ii dope, i ended up returning my 770 n getting a p5 instead, my motherboard comes with a heatsink so i should be fine. Dont honestly think id see a difference in gaming compared to the sn770 but the other features like d ram is what made me swap it out

[@-CornDawg]

I have installed MSI Spatium M480 M.2 Gen 4 1TB and that's where I have installed Windows but I need to buy 500GB one for that and use this for save projects and stuff. I was wondering if the CRUCIAL P5 PLUS 500GB PCIE 4.0 500GB GEN4 a good ssd to install the windows and the software, it is cheaper than SAMSUNG 980 PRO GEN.4 500GB NVME M.2 SSD.

[@TechTesters]

If the P5 Plus is cheap, it's a good option, simple.

[@-CornDawg]

@@TechTesters Cool, hope it won't slow down booting speed and program opening and running speed than what it is currently with msi spatium.

[@kamalalaloush9364]

If your build doesn't have a heat sink so it's a budget build so u wont buy a 1Tb gen4 ssd, I mean I've never seen a motherboard without a heat sink that support gen 4 and it's not ultra budget. I think actually it's better to not include one for E waste reasons.

[@omkarshigwan1033]

❤❤❤

[@farunjacob7450]

Yes price's are always a problem for me 😂😂😁

[@saddamsk4211]

Nice SSD 😇😇😇

[@Mjet403]

What did she review again 😅

[@memberberry462]

it it normal that after 5 months the SSD's health went from 100% to 98% ??

[@GamingCheeto]

necro reply but it really depends on what you're doing if you're writing on it alot it's most likely fine

[@memberberry462]

@@GamingCheeto well here is my use case scenario I've split it to 2 partitions 250gb for windows C drive and the rest for my games and i only use my pc for games now its 14 mounts of use and it dropped to 96% i have an other ssd Samsung 970evo and its still at 100% i think maybe i got scammed with that p5 plus maybe amazon sent me i used drive or something 😥

[@GamingCheeto]

@@memberberry462 if it's an OS drive it writes a lot, if you have crystal disk info installed you can see how much it's written and it's overall uptime, usually this number cannot be modified so it's almost always accurate, but you're fine not only does the crucial p5 plus have a 5 year warranty it's rated for anywhere between 300TB write to 1200TB (depending on the drive size 500gb - 2tb). I have some random dell sk hynix 512gb m.2 I've been using for a few years with around 250TB of write and it's showing 82% health and it's working perfectly fine. The p5 plus will last you well beyond it's warranty If your Evo drive is a mostly a static drive (gaming other occasional things NOT an OS drive it will last longer)

[@stephenstrassen1135]

can you game with one of these ?

[@jrwong2181]

Girl reviewer do not game but they give excellent deep information specs and detailed report

[@Jelpronir]

Niceeeeeee

[@bojke91]

Ohh this must be nice ;)

[@mapuiatluanga3202]

👍👍❤️❤️❤️

[@piyushchowdhury9790]

Nice mam

[@Galexlol]

Ehi Nada, if you know this could you tell me something, i'm looking for an SSD to puts lots of games on that will probably get patched. What's the best "endurance" SSD that would last a long time (so no QLC?), i'm looking for 2TB+, because it's so confusing to get which ones are TLC or QLC or MLC or whatever

[@julesjacobs1]

According to the manufacturer, you can completely overwrite this SSD 600 times, so there should be no need to focus on endurance for your use case.

[@whyjay9959]

There are many other aspects to the design of a drive that determine its write endurance and performance.

[@Galexlol]

@@whyjay9959 thanks captain obvious

[@kalitvenec]

😊

[@patrickcadette]

😁😁😁👍👍👍

[@tarekzo746]

Can som1 help me is it important to have an integrated heatsink if you gonna use this ssd on a laptop for example the samsung 990 pro has an integrated heatsink but the wx black sn850 does not i

[@曾柏-j4j]

FAR behind E18

[@Kapono5150]

Micron is usually not soo good quality

[@iam4740]

Lol, thanks for putting some fem in the reviews.

[@GabeDobsky]

Your mom?

[@Ez0X_9S]

no

[@GabeDobsky]

@@Ez0X_9S ok

[@bintaher8035]

✅👍❤