Question WD Blue SN570 OR Crucial P3

[omcdesigners]

Hope it's ok to ask it here.
Have no clue in these things, just want your opinion, want to use the free ssd slot in my laptop to store and run some games, and I don't know which one is more reliable and has better temps (for laptops).
I have this lenovo legion 5 if it's matter:

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/Legion/Lenovo_Legion_5_17ACH6H/Lenovo_Legion_5_17ACH6H_Spec.pdf

This one:

https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-SN570-Internal-Solid/dp/B09HKDQ1RN/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

or this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-PCIe-NAND-NVMe-3500MB/dp/B0B25LZGGW/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8&th=1

Thanks!

 

[Tech Junky]

The SN770 is what I'm using internally and in a TB4 enclosure for storage and has good speeds.

https://www.amazon.com/WD_BLACK-250GB-SN770-Internal-Gaming/dp/B09QV692XY

Looks like it's a bit more expensive than your two options but, it's also a gen4 drive if you intend to hold onto it for a long period and put it in a higher end laptop down the road. Sure, the current laptop is Gen3 but, it wills till be able to use a Gen4 drive just at the slightly lower speed. I run into the same issue as a secondary slot on my laptop is also Gen3 and ThunderBoilt is capped at ~3gB/s but, the SN770 blows away other drives in the TB enclosure for some reason.

Personally though I would go with the WB over the Crucial.

 

[omcdesigners]

Thanks for your recommendation, thing is I search for something cheaper than 75$ because otherwise I need to pay for shipping and taxes another 45$ and it doesn't worth it :/
I can in fact go for the one you recommend and take the 500GB capacity instead, is this worth taking, over the others 1TB?

 

[Tech Junky]

Must be outside the US / CAN then if you're mentioning $75 cap before taxes / shipping.

How much space you need is more important than the speed of the drives.

 

[omcdesigners]

Must be outside the US / CAN then if you're mentioning $75 cap before taxes / shipping.

How much space you need is more important than the speed of the drives.

Yes, I'm not from the US.
Of course I prefer 1TB but then again I don't know how to decide between them.
Outside from the fact I lean towards the WD because it looks nicer (says it all lol) I can't really decide coz I don't know the differences, which one is more reliable for example or some other consideration I don't aware of.
[Sorry for my poor English BTW]

 

[Tech Junky]

I've tried a lot of different brands and currently have 4 NVME and 5 spinner drives from WD. The spinners are about 5 years old and run 24/7.

I would be looking through the reviews on Amazon for an abundance of reviews stating there's an issue with one or the other.

For the performance side I would be looking at which controller is being used and the memory chips. I have a handful of phison based drives as well and they perform well for smaller files but they tend to show down on bigger files being moved around on them.

All things being equal though whichever is cheaper and has the better warranty would be my pick.

 

[omcdesigners]

OK, I went for the WD.
Thanks a lot for your help, much appreciated!