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Note: I've not tested the TeamGroup MP34 myself yet. The specs and reviews make it sound good enough.

TeamGroup MP34 sounds good on paper with the very common controller and TLC NAND. For nvme you want DRAM, not HMB (Host Memory Buffer). The reviews described it as not making any compromises and it is seemingly fine except they offer a shorter 3-year warranty than Samsung's 5-year.

I normally would buy the Samsung 970 Evo Plus that's $139.99 for 2TB. The Samsung is a known level of reliability. I'm not too worried about trying the MP34 for my next node.
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Peter Todd 2y ago

So long as you buy two different SSD brands, use a filesystem like btrfs that'll catch errors, and actually monitor the machine, you can probably get away with pretty much any cheap off brand SSDs.

…and even if you are buying expensive name brand SSDs, getting two different brands is still good advice.

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Warren Togami 2y ago

Exactly. I recommend two different bus technologies and brands so the disks aren't likely to fail simultaneously.

These are not the cheapest off brand SSD's. These models are TLC instead of QLC, and DRAM not HMB. They're supposed to survive power loss without write buffer loss.