How to buy a satisfactory SSD

The price of SSD is getting more and more cabbage, 500G only costs less than 60 dollars, and sometimes you can even buy 1T disks for 100 dollars. Double Eleven is coming soon. Many people may take the opportunity to buy an SSD. This big brother named Matt has compiled some suggestions for your reference. I hope everyone can buy satisfactory SSD.
Tracking historical prices for interesting disks;
If you buy it on Amazon, you can install a Camelizer plug-in on Chrome, and use this plug-in when browsing a certain SSD to see its historical price.
If you are not using Amazon, you can use PCPartiPIcker, which can also provide similar functions.
Note: We can ignore this feeling. After all, we basically buy it from cats and dogs; data is very precious (such as Dandan movies). Don’t buy those unknown brands. You can buy Dogfish for 50 yuan. Brands like KingDian and Vaseky that have never been heard before, but as long as you pay a little more, you can buy big brands like Toshiba, WD, and Crucial. Save money for a while and dare to love it, the movie has no regrets for a lifetime, choose carefully.
Even if it is a big brand SSD, there is no guarantee that there will be no problems at all. Remember to use a hard disk or cloud disk for backup.
Don't worry about small capacity SSD
Don't think about 256G and below disks even if they are cheap. In order to have a better gaming experience, buy at least 500G, preferably 1T or 2T SSD.
Any SSD is better than HDD
The worst SSD is also at least 3 times faster than HDD.
Before you start, understand your computer. At present, 5-inch SSD is the most common way to check whether there is an M.2 slot on the notebook. If so, make sure it supports SATA, NVMe, or both.
SATA SSD
1T and 2T disks should be considered. Now some 1T DRAMless SSDs are priced below $100. If you see Samsung 860EVO or WD Blue drop below $100, it is worth your shot.
2T SSDs are more worthy of consideration. Not long ago, disks with this capacity were several hundred dollars larger, and now some have reached around 200 dollars. If you see Samsung or Crucial drop below $200, you can do it when it's time to do it.
If your desktop or laptop supports multiple SSDs, you can consider using an ordinary SSD for capacity expansion or backup, and use a faster SSD as the startup disk.
NVMe SSD
NVMe SSD is usually M.2 or AIC (plug-in card type, like a graphics card). Unless you are a local player, you basically don't need to consider Intel's Optane series, such as Intel 905P. They are fast, very good, and expensive! 3D XPoint is still a relatively new technology, and Intel will continue its high price strategy to obtain higher profits.
You can pay attention to Intel 660P, an NVMe SSD that is not much more expensive than SATA SSD. Maybe you will have the opportunity to buy 1T for 80 dollars or 2T for 175 dollars.
You can learn more about choosing SSDs on the Tom’s Hardware website. If you don’t have a plan for the time being, don’t worry, SSD prices are unlikely to increase in the short term. With the mass production of 96-layer 3D NAND and the introduction of QLC, the price of SSD will be more attractive in the future.