Firstly, NVMe has a significant price premium, especially for high-capacity SSDs.
Thankfully, you might get SSDs that use the same SATA 3 connector as traditional HDDs.
The Samsung 870 EVO
Key Features
Specifications
The Samsung 870 EVO is the SATA SSD to beat.
It comes in capacities between 250GB and 4TB and offers read speeds of 560MB/s and write speeds of 530MB/s.
To optimise write speeds a DDR4 cache is included of up to 4GB.
The drive comes with a 5-year warranty, or up to 600 full drive writes.
We dont particularly recommend any 250GB SSD though as the capacity is so low.
The Crucial MX500
The Crucial MX500 is another solid SATA SSD.
It offers very similar performance stats to the 870 EVO, with 560MB/s read and 510MB/s write.
The main thing that sets it apart is the write endurance which is twice as good.
While the EVOs 5-year warranty covers 600 Total Drive Writes, the PROs covers 1200 TDW.
It comes in the same capacities as the EVO and offers the same 5-year warranty.
The Samsung 870 EVO
For the 1TB drive and below, the endurance is 400TB per terabyte of storage.
With 560MB/s read and 525MB/s write speeds.
It comes with a 5 year warranty or up to 600TB written to the drive.
That was our list of the best SATA SSDs in 2021.
Have you recently bought a SATA SSD?
What model did you go for and how has your experience been?
