Lexar NM610 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD

[W1zzard]

Lexar's NM610 is built using a Silicon Motion SM2263XT controller, paired with Intel 3D TLC flash. The pseudo-SLC cache is rather large at 128 GB, which ensures big write bursts get handled at full speed. Pricing at $155 for a DRAM-less SSD seems a bit high, though.

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[AnarchoPrimitiv]

There's no point in buying this or any other drive while the HP Ex950 1TB can be had for $125 or less and tops all the benchmarks among TLC NVMe drives, when I did my new build this past November, I got a 1 TB HP EX950 for $112, and liked it so much I was able to get the 2TB version on sale for $225, so in the end I was able to get 3TB of some of the fastest NVMe storage (discounting 3dxpoint, obviously) for $337, which is pretty good. I've actually been so pleased with the drives, that I took 4x of the 2 TB drives, put them in a Highpoint Storage Solutions SSD7103 M.2 3.0X16 adapter with hardware RAID, and made it the tope tier in my Nas (I have a 10GBase-T home network and my server/NAS has an Intel X710-T4 four port 10 gig NIC with all ports aggregated for a 40Gbit backbone so the drives aren't getting bottlenecked, rest assured). Seriously though, if you go on Newegg right now, 1 TB of NVMe storage is about the same price as 1 TB of SATAIII SSD storage, so there's really no point to buying SATAIII SSDs right now unless you don't have either an m.2 slot or a PCIe 3.0x4 slot to slide an adapter into.

 

[ppn]

1TB kingspec looks very similar and can be found for $66 - 512GB and 1TB at $116, taxes excluded. NM610 delivers slightly better performance it seems.

 

[kapone32]

There's no point in buying this or any other drive while the HP Ex950 1TB can be had for $125 or less and tops all the benchmarks among TLC NVMe drives, when I did my new build this past November, I got a 1 TB HP EX950 for $112, and liked it so much I was able to get the 2TB version on sale for $225, so in the end I was able to get 3TB of some of the fastest NVMe storage (discounting 3dxpoint, obviously) for $337, which is pretty good. I've actually been so pleased with the drives, that I took 4x of the 2 TB drives, put them in a Highpoint Storage Solutions SSD7103 M.2 3.0X16 adapter with hardware RAID, and made it the tope tier in my Nas (I have a 10GBase-T home network and my server/NAS has an Intel X710-T4 four port 10 gig NIC with all ports aggregated for a 40Gbit backbone so the drives aren't getting bottlenecked, rest assured). Seriously though, if you go on Newegg right now, 1 TB of NVMe storage is about the same price as 1 TB of SATAIII SSD storage, so there's really no point to buying SATAIII SSDs right now unless you don't have either an m.2 slot or a PCIe 3.0x4 slot to slide an adapter into.

Dude I have 2 Asus M2 expansion cards in my rig. I know you know what I know about the smile that comes on your face when you realize the operation finished right after you took a swig of beer .

 

[Vario]

A cheap NVME 1TB drive was one of the better purchases I made for online games, especially games that crash a lot and require relogging.

 

[QUANTUMPHYSICS]

Intel 660p 2TB is still $199 - 220.

It's a great drive.

 

[kapone32]

Intel 660p 2TB is still $199 - 220.

It's a great drive.

If you can get one for that price. There is nothing wrong with the 660P unfortunately the price has increased in Canada to the point where it makes no sense to buy vs drives from Sabrent and Crucial among others for better performance and less money but if you can find 2.

TB of anything NVME for $200 is academic.