If in China, there are two new options:
LITE-ON CL6 2TB M.2 2230
It uses SM2268XT from SMI, and 162L flash from Kioxia (industry’s first). Claims 6000MB/s sequential read and 5300MB/s sequential write. Available on Taobao. Since it’s a very new drive its SKU is unknown.
HIKVISION DK4000 2TB M.2 2230
The controller is MAP1602, and the flash is likely 232L TLC from YMTC but with 16 dies in a package, 1024Gb per die. On its description it claims ~7000MB/s sequential read/write performance. SKU is unknown.
Sabrent SSD 1TB SSD NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 2230
Western Digital | SN770M | 2TB | M.2 2230 | WDBDNH0020BBK-WRSN
Sabrent Q4 2TB M.2 2230 SB-213Q-2TB
WD_BLACK SN770m 2TB M.2 2230 WDBDNH0020BBK-WRSN
Another Sabrent Q4 2TB M.2 2230 SB-213Q-2TB
KIOXIA BG5 Client SSD 1TB, M.2 2230-S3 KBG50ZNS1T02
Yet another WD SN740 2TB M.2 2230
Western Digital Internal/OEM 512GB SN530 WDC SDBPTPZ-512G-1012
That one have a DRAM cache. I have two of those.
I stole them from a Dell SFF Tower, but you can get them off like Aliexpress cheap.
Samsung Internal/OEM 512GB PM991a MZ-9LQ512B
That one despite Samsung don’t have DRAM cache. Only useful for drive images and backup use.
I got a Solidigm P41 Pro 1TB SSDPFPNU010TZ.
WD_BLACK 2TB SN770M M.2 2230 NVMe SSD - WDBDNH0020BBK-WRSN
Corsair MP600 Mini 1TB M.2 2230 CSSD-F1000GBMP600MN
Timetec 2gb 2230 model MS72 fits perfectly and works well
WD PC SN740 1TB M.2 2230 SDDPTQD-1T00
This is a complete sentence.
Micron 2400 1TB M.2 2230 PCIe 4.0x4 MTFDKBK1T0QFM-1BD1AABYYR
Why wouldn’t I use the SABRENT Rocket, WD SN740, or Soldigm P41 Plus?
Two words: Idle power = 200mW
According to this site https://dancharblog.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/upgrade-sl3-or-spx-to-1tb/#gen4-m-2-2230-ssds, the Sabrent Rocket is just a re-brand of the Micron 2400, which is rated at 20 mW idle power. The SN740 only uses 7 mW at idle.
Hi Tim,
May I know your experience with this ssd? I am also interested in it but because of mix review, a bit hesistant.
Sabrent Rocket 2230 256 GB SB-2130-256
The SN740 I have in my FW 16 is the same as the SN770M (the latter just having more guaranteed TBW), which I measured at 5230 MB/s read and 4860 MB/s write. It does get considerably hotter under heavy usage than the 2280 (SN850X in my case), but which shouldn’t be much of an issue since most of the “heavy lifting” should be done on the faster (and cheaper) 2280 drive anyway. I can recommend it.
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