Reddit mentions of Mushkin REACTOR 1TB Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) 2.5 Inch SATA III 6Gb/s MLC 7mm MKNSSDRE1TB,Black

Here's some other features that I take advantage of on my Pro:

• Boost Mode - slightly enhances performance for games not "neo ready" (Thank you /u/moonlord_ for correcting me on what boost mode actually does)
  
• 4k upscaling - games are upscaled to 4k with the Pro if you have an enhanced HDMI port on your 4k TV (which you should).
  
• Use my controller in USB mode - I have a 15' Micro USB cable w/ ferrite plugged into my controller and in the settings, I use my controller over USB instead of Bluetooth. This allows for better input response times and when using earbuds, the sound never cuts out and chat quality is improved. This also eliminated a problem I had where either my router or my cellphone would interfere with the Bluetooth signal of the DS4 causing unwanted actions or weird behavior (it doesn't help that I live in an apartment with around 50 wireless routers nearby). Note: You can do this with the other PS4s as well if you have the newer model DS4, but the Pro comes with the newer model of DS4 that supports this feature.
  
• Stream my games / remote-play in 1080p
  
• PS4 Pro has SATA III - Great for SSDs - I upgraded to a 1TB Muskin SSD (cheap!). I've had this setup since the PS4 Pro launched and this SSD has worked amazingly well! With the Pro having SATA III support, it takes advantage of the SSD speeds more than the regular PS4 did.
  
• PS4 Pro also has an optical port so I can use my old Tritan AX Pro headset again or push sound through optical to an audio receiver / soundbar. The Slim models do not have an optical port (which is the model available right now besides the Pro).
  
• PS4 Pro also has an extra USB port for charging controllers / VR headsets / phones / tablets.
  
  With all of this I think it is well worth the upgrade. I moved my old PS4 (a Gold Taco Bell PS4 - I was a lucky winner) to the bedroom, which works out well since my old 1080p TV is in the bedroom and my much newer 4K TV is in the living room.

This drive hovers around $220-240 on Amazon

I use a 2010 Mac Pro for production. I upgraded the CPU to 6 core 3.46Ghz and installed an Apricorn Velocity Solo x2 Extreme Performance SSD Upgrade Kit
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PAFJJRA
and then got this SSD for it:
Mushkin REACTOR 1TB Internal Solid State Drive
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PAFJJRA
I then used Disk Utility in Recovery mode to restore the main partition to the SSD and it works much faster now.
You can also get a 32GB upgrade (4 x 8GB DDR3 ECC) for it here:
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Mac-Pro-Memory?_ga=2.23260351.423548637.1500935185-2031654528.1500935185#1333-memory
Then, it is just as fast as the latest and greatest (well pretty much, anyway)

1TB SSDs start at around $250, just sayin.

$234.29 on amazon https://www.amazon.com/Mushkin-MKNSSDRE1TB-Reactor-SATA-2-5inch/dp/B00PAFJJRA


$249.99 on newegg itself http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226596

I use a Mushkin (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PAFJJRA), but I'm sure most SSD drives these days would work well so long as it has highly rated reviews.

Thanks. The price discrepancy seems to decrease at larger sizes, at least in Canada: 850 EVO 1TB for $430 vs. Mushkin 1TB for $375. I was about to purchase the Mushkin, but I think I will go with the Samsung after your suggestion.

Solid-state drive. They’re faster than the hard drives that come with the PS4 Pro. Here is what I have installed. It was pretty easy to do the upgrade myself.

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Do you recommend this SSD ?

I went with this, amazing so far, so fast. Good value and great reviews from what I read:

https://www.amazon.com/Mushkin-MKNSSDRE1TB-Reactor-SATA-2-5inch/dp/B00PAFJJRA

The rates in India are way off, the same Mushkin Enhanced Reactor is at 500$ on Ebay India and Amazon India both, whereas Samsung Evo SATA III 1TB SSD is near 370$ on Amazon India. This is very sad state in India where computer peripherals are way over priced when compared to the rates in US markets.

These seem to use M.2 SSDs instead of SATA SSDs.

M.2 is a new standard that basically allows flash storage to have direct access to PCIe lanes(improving transfer rates to several times faster than SATA, which already is the speed bottleneck for higher-end SSDs such as Samsung's 850 series). Unfortunately, it has the issue of being limited to a motherboard connection, limiting the number of ports(most laptops with M.2 only have one M.2 port) and its physical dimensions, which ultimately limit their capacity to lower than SATA SSDs. Intel's been working on a U.2 connector that allows using cables at M.2 speeds and allows for SSDs with capacities you'd only be able to fit in a SATA bay before. Unfortunately, it hasn't gained any significant traction in the laptop market because of its increased height and has only gotten a significant market hold in the enterprise storage market as of now.

This doesn't mean you can't use another SATA SSD you can get at the prices listed above as their HDDs tend to be SATA devices. 128GB isn't enough storage for more than Windows(which can take about 64GB depending on installed features such as a factory reset image) and a Smart Response cache, which is an Intel technology that attempts to increase apparent HDD speeds by dynamically keeping a small part of the HDD's contents (specifically, the contents accessed more often) into the SSD.

Keeping a lot of data in a small SSD is bad for its lifetime, though. SSDs support a limited number of writes before they fail, and that figure is currently somewhere from 350~1000 for each sector(small fixed block of data used for IO operations, usually between 512 bytes and 4 KB). Manufacturers have introduced ways to get around such limitations, such as allocating additional space in the SSD to be used to replace sectors that failed, or support for TRIM(which marks the blocks as deleted instead of physically overwriting them), but the most important method is wear leveling - essentially managing unused space so as to make sure its sectors get an equal amount of use in order to prevent overused sectors from failing prematurely - which is why you don't want to fill the SSD more than about 75%. a 128GB SSD will still happily support at least 50 TB written to it over its lifetime, though(about 28GB/day every day for 5 years), assuming these measures are taken.

a 500GB or larger SSD will let you store your data directly into the SSD without needing to swap it in and out constantly.

You could get this laptop(6700HQ/960M/8GB RAM) for $750, a 1 TB SSD for $230, and use the laptop's 1TB SSHD as an external HDD with a $10 enclosure, which sums up to $990.
The laptop also comes with a M.2 port and an additional DDR3L slot for further expansion, and some good upgrades over its lifetime would be getting another 8GB RAM to take advantage of dual channel memory(currently at $40) and a M.2 SSD once they get affordable enough to justify their additional performance.

Thanks! Yeah, I noticed that the specs were better than needed on the CPU, but I also wasn't sure how quickly this kind of thing tends to go out of date. When would I need to replace it by if I got the minimum CPU for those kinds of games?

Noted on the cooler!

Lol, does this SSD seem reasonable then? I just tend to download movies/tv shows pretty often, and never wanted disk size to be an issue.

Regarding the undervolt settings I'm using, they are pretty much standard for this model of laptop. There's been lots of other users that have tested this thoroughly and these are the most stable settings that pretty much work for everyone with the i7 8750 version of the Zephyrus M.

There's not much to worry about with undervolting. The worst that will happen is it will just cause a blue screen and force a reboot; it will not hurt any hardware. After the blue screen, you just adjust your settings and re-test by forcing a workload or benchmark to see if it blue screens again. If it doesn't, then you're good to go.

Here are my settings:

• https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZiihO7ZVnqRha4JbdSnIDRlHNRv57uTQg8V
  
  I recommend watching a YouTube video to understand how to use ThrottleStop first, just to get an understanding of what each setting does, such as this one:
  
  
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNt9L3BWOFo
  
  These were the upgrade parts I used in my laptop:
  
  
• RAM - Crucial DDR4-2666 Dual Rank 32GB Memory :
  
  • https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071H38422/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
    
• NVMe - XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB:
  
  • https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K1HMMJC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
    
• SSD - Muskin Reactor 1TB:
  
  • https://www.amazon.com/Mushkin-REACTOR-Internal-Solid-MKNSSDRE1TB/dp/B00PAFJJRA/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=mushkin+reactor&qid=1556033451&s=gateway&sr=8-3
    
    Here's the disassembly video I watched before doing any upgrades:
    
    
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygo37Ss-aEo
  
  EDIT: Updated my undervolt settings, original document was old settings, the current link above is correct.

Trust me you'll need the storage. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PAFJJRA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_mUXezbZ49T6EJ

> Even has FreeSync.

> 1080Ti

Yeah, right. I think you are watching too many YouTube "reviewers" that plug Nvidia cards to FreeSync screens (besides, what kind of brand is Qnix?). But say you wanted G-Sync to go with the theme... $1289

I would also like to go back to your parts list because I'm really wondering if "Qnix" also makes "big-ass" SSDs as you stated, since everywhere else a mainstream 1TB SSD (Mushkin Reactor, Crucial MX-300) costs $280, but if you really wanted to go with the theme of the prosumer build a 1TB M.2 Samsung 960 Pro goes for $600. And 1TB is not even big-ass, it gets filled fast with just a few games and your regular OS and apps when games go for 10GB+ a pop. Even if you want 512GB of really fast M.2 storage for the OS + core games and 1TB of regular HDD for your time wasters and media, you still spend around $300 in storage. However I don't know WTF are you doing with a spinning HDD on a system with over $1K in CPU+GPU combined alone.

Also:

• what are you cooling the 7700K with? wishes and good vibes? Besides, 4 cores for a high end system in 2017? yawn
  
• $200 for 32GB of ram? Are you really putting 2133Mhz memory in there or are you pulling another "Qnix" rabbit? More like $320 for a non-RGB 3200 GSkill kit.
  
  See, you skimped on half of the components (the most important ones!) and barely made it below $2K, and adding a 32'' G-Sync still tides you over $3K. A smaller screen doesn't make sense for 4K, go 1440 if you are using a 27''. And yes, this discussion is about total cost of ownership because nobody buys a 1080Ti to match it with a 2500K. You either balance out the rest of the system, or you made a bad purchase decision. That's why the high end market is tiny.

Pretty sure that drive's on sale, so there's not any others priced quite that low. Lowest I could find is this Mushkin Reactor 1TB.

http://www.poweredbymushkin.com/Home/

https://www.amazon.com/Mushkin-REACTOR-Internal-Solid-MKNSSDRE1TB/dp/B00PAFJJRA

For a 1TB that's compatible with your system, I'd suggest the Mushkin Reactor.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PAFJJRA/?tag=pcpapi-20

With the leftover budget I would also add another 8GB of RAM, and perhaps an aftermarket cooler such as the Cryorig H7 if you're up to overclock the processor.

I have this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Mushkin-MKNSSDRE1TB-Reactor-SATA-2-5inch/dp/B00PAFJJRA

Reviews seem overwhelmingly positive, and I am perfectly happy with it. Virtual indistinguishable from past 850 EVOs I've owned.

Excellent, that's great to hear. I have an 850 Pro as my OS drive which was probably overkill but I had no idea what I was doing. So between https://www.amazon.com/Mushkin-MKNSSDRE1TB-Reactor-SATA-2-5inch/dp/B00PAFJJRA and https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-2-5-Inch-Height-SDSSDHII-960G-G25/dp/B00M8ABHVQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1466301114&sr=1-2&keywords=sandisk+ultra+II what would you recommend?