I have decided to purchase the 8gb Powerstation. Please recommend the best brand of NVMe SSDs. I am not a gamer. I record football, basketball and movies to watch at my leisure.

in my opinion just for recording any SSD with heatsink on it will be fine. but just for peace of mind Samsung 990 pro M.2 NVMe PCIe 4. "Sequential Reads/Writes: Up to 7,450 MBps / 6,900 MBps"

 

Edited August 15, 20251 yr by Ryu

I'd stick with name brands.  Speed is not going to make a huge difference for recording purposes.  5000MBps or 7000MBps you probably won't notice a difference on recording or playback.

Samsung, Kingston, Crucial, WD should be fine.   And if you can find a model withing these brands which has a heatsink or heat spreader, even better, since the unit is not actively cooled.  Don't get their cheapest model line.

I personally use a Kingston KC3000 1TB in my unit, which has a low profile heat spreader.  Not the cheapest model around, but figured I did not want any hassles.  Not that I worry about losing any recording, but it is just something that can be cause other glitches if you use it for TS also.

I originally started with a Samsung 980 Pro 500GB (which worked well also), but since I had the Kingston left over from another project, decided to just swap it in.

 

Thanks for the advice guys. I learned more from 2 posts than from all the gobbledegook on YouTube