1TB INTERNAL SSD DRIVE PC

500GB to 2TB: 1TB is the practical minimum for any PC build that costs more than $500 (perhaps one of the best PC builds).

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Pick a compatible interface (M.2 PCIe, SATA, Add-in Card): Look at your user manual or a database like the Crucial Memory Finder to determine what types of SSD your computer supports.When choosing an SSD, consider the following: Here's the shortlist of our rankings below, but we have deeper breakdowns for these drives below, along with far more picks for other categories, like RGB SSDs, value-centric PCIe 3.0 SSDs, workstation SSDs, DirectStorage SSDs, and SATA SSDs, among other categories. If that's the case and your system supports it, go for a new PCIe 5.0 SSD.

The latest PCIe 5.0 SSDs also carry a heavy price premium for now, so you're probably best suited with a PCIe 4.0 or 3.0 model - unless you're after the fastest possible performance money can buy, of course. In regular productivity tasks such as web browsing or light desktop work, you may not even notice the difference between a PCIe 3.0 SSD and one with a 4.0 interface, let alone a new bleeding-edge PCIe 5.0 model. While the PCIe 5.0 drives are the fastest SSDs money can buy right now, believe it or not, raw speed isn't everything. That's an amazing level of performance from an amazingly compact device. Even though there are faster models coming, the Inland TD510 is unquestionably the fastest consumer SSD in the world that you can actually buy, at least for now, delivering up to a blistering 10 GB/s of sequential throughput and 1.5 million random IOPS over the PCIe 5.0 interface. The era of PCIe 5.0 SSDs is upon us, propelling us to new heights of stratospheric SSD performance. That means less time waiting for game levels to load or videos to transcode. This drive is rated for 7,450 / 6,900 MBps of sequential read/write throughput and 1.2 / 1.55 million read/write IOPS.

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It's great if your desktop system can handle a PCIe 5.0 drive, but they are still new and expensive, so they aren't a requirement: For example, the PCIe 4.0 Samsung 990 Pro is our current choice for the best SSD overall, and the best SSD for gaming.

SATA drives will continue to get more affordable so they can compete on price, but they can't hope to keep up with newer NVMe drives on performance.īlazing-fast PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSDs, which offer up to twice the sequential speeds of the older PCIe 4.0 standard, are now supported with Intel and AMD's current platforms, the Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 and 13th-Gen Raptor Lake. The latest NVMe SSDs have undercut mainstream drives on the slower SATA interface (which was originally designed for hard drives), but we shouldn't expect to see the end of SATA drives any time soon. Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.

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