Recommendations for NVMe SSD please

[Lawrence Calhoun]

I have decided to purchase the 8gb Powerstation. Please recommend the best brand of NVMe SSDs. I am not a gamer. I record football, basketball and movies to watch at my leisure.

[Ryu]

in my opinion just for recording any SSD with heatsink on it will be fine. but just for peace of mind Samsung 990 pro M.2 NVMe PCIe 4. "Sequential Reads/Writes: Up to 7,450 MBps / 6,900 MBps"

 

Edited August 15 by Ryu

[Emporium]

I'd stick with name brands.  Speed is not going to make a huge difference for recording purposes.  5000MBps or 7000MBps you probably won't notice a difference on recording or playback.

Samsung, Kingston, Crucial, WD should be fine.   And if you can find a model withing these brands which has a heatsink or heat spreader, even better, since the unit is not actively cooled.  Don't get their cheapest model line.

I personally use a Kingston KC3000 1TB in my unit, which has a low profile heat spreader.  Not the cheapest model around, but figured I did not want any hassles.  Not that I worry about losing any recording, but it is just something that can be cause other glitches if you use it for TS also.

I originally started with a Samsung 980 Pro 500GB (which worked well also), but since I had the Kingston left over from another project, decided to just swap it in.

 

[Lawrence Calhoun]

Thanks for the advice guys. I learned more from 2 posts than from all the gobbledegook on YouTube