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What's your boot drive? (Any recommendations?)

I've heard excellent things about Optane, but those are hard to come by now, IIRC.
 
Crucial P5 Plus.
 
RJARRRPCGP said:
I've heard excellent things about Optane, but those are hard to come by now, IIRC.
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905P is available in decent capacity at newegg. If you get the 1.5TB version you want to get a PCIe adaptor or NVMe adaptor as it doesn't come with any adaptor.
 
RJARRRPCGP said:
I've heard excellent things about Optane, but those are hard to come by now, IIRC.
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I see the Optane drive to be much like the Betamax of the VHS world or HD-DVD of the Blu Ray world. Doesn't matter if it was better in some areas, it lost to the overall competition.

My boot drive is a WD SN850 1TB & I've been happy with its performance.
 
Samsung 970 Pro 1TB for me.
 
Caring1 said:
Crucial P5 Plus.
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personally this isn't shabby for their inhouse SOC powering this NVME but it has some serious idle/sleep issues. T500 and T505 was better overall.
 
I personally like 970 Evo / 990 Pro and SN850 / SN850X. Overkill for most people I guess. Never had issues with Samsung and WD.

Not really bothered with PCIe 5.0 SSDs yet and probably won't be, considering they don't deliver anything for me in terms of loading times, but gets hot and needs active cooling in most cases.
 
Running the EVO Plus in 512GB flavour as my boot drive. I’m on my desktop in under 20sec. I don’t see any reason to switch to anything else. My games NVME is Gen 4 where it might make a difference.
 
Palindrome said:
Would be great to hear what y'all are using :toast:
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NVMe 980Pro 1TB PCI-E 4.0
Previously I had as a boot drive the NVMe 970Pro 512GB PCI-E 3.0. Slightly worst speeds and slightly better endurance (MLC vs TLC)
Both drives are on the system right now but 980Pro is the boot one

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Optane usually..

Yes i have a drive hoarding problem

I have 16 more NVME drives in ASM2464/ASM2364/RTL9210B/JMS583 that arnt plugged in atm also
and maybe 15 2.5" Sata SSD's in ASM235CM/RTL9201R

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2.5 Sata 500GB PNY
 
Twas a WD_Black SN770 where my install of Win10 lives, but now I typically run my tasks off an eensy Linux Mint partition on my secondary drive, a Leven JPS600. Uh, don't buy the latter. I can't attest to their reliability, especially since the first drive they sent me was non-functional and didn't even have the heat spreader pre-applied like the working replacement did.

If you just want a plain and simple option to stick in there and fuhgeddaboutit, A Western Digital Blue SN580 or a Crucial P3 Plus/P310 is enough. The WD_Black SN770 and Crucial P5 Plus are good midgrade options, while the SK Hynix Platinum P41/WD_Black SN850X are some of the best gen 4 drives at the moment. Gen 5 is still not all that cost-effective and runs rather hot without active cooling, so avoid that for the time being. Samsung's 980 Pro and 990 Pro are also nice, but IIRC are not well-priced at all and as such are superceded by other options.
 
I'm using my 2TB sn850x right now. I was using the Netac nv7000 2TB before but I was thinking with so many ssds I might as well rotate the boot drive around, so the writes get distributed more evenly. That makes sense, right?
 
Solidigm P44 Pro.
 
I'll repeat: I was happy with WD Black SN770. Have been using 970 Evo too. Both are perfect. Also, I like ADATA XPG 8200 Pro. Steal for it's price.
 
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