M.2. (SATA3) Drive Recommendations

[IamSpartacus]

I'm looking for some inexpensive M.2. SATA3 (Not NVMe) SSD's. The M.2. controller on my MoBo (ASRock Rack D1541D4U-2O8R) operates at SATA3 not PCIe. Everything I see these days is NVMe and since I can't make use of those speeds it makes no sense to buy one.

 

[i386]

Do you have any acapacity requirements?
Powerlosss protection?
Budget?

 

[IamSpartacus]

Do you have any acapacity requirements?
Powerlosss protection?
Budget?

256-512GB. Don't need power loss protection. Don't really have a budget in mind but looking for as cheap as I can get. This will be for all my docker containers' appdata running on my home storage server.

 

[amalurk]

New 860 evos come in m.2 sata.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-860-SATA-Internal-MZ-N6E1T0BW/dp/B07864V6CK

 

[IamSpartacus]

New 860 evos come in m.2 sata.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-860-SATA-Internal-MZ-N6E1T0BW/dp/B07864V6CK

I was just looking at those too. Thanks!

 

[K D]

Crucial m.2 sata drives always come on sale at microcenter. Have been running a few of them in various systems for about a year.

 

[Evan]

Not exactly a heavy workload drive but the usually Samsung 850/860evo would certianly be a good pick at the price point that’s low.

But more enterprise like is something like intel DC SSD S3520