Is it Advised to Have 2 M.2 NVMe's from same company?

I have been using Samsung SATA and NVME drives exclusively for years without a failure.

I've got three:
1. C drive: Samsung 980 2TB
2. Samsung 980 1TB
3. Lexar NM790 4TB

On system as per my signature below.

They all live together as a happy family without any issues.

Yeah gonna possibly get another Samsung NVMe, and later on the future replace Boot NVMe with Samsung as well i think is tentative plan right now. ((Boot Drive installed by Ibuypower that built this Ready Build AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Based Desktop is Kingston SNVS2S1000G NVMe)

Did Buy a Cruical 500GB drive, but might save that and use in another system in the future at this point i think

Anyhow i'll get it all sorted asap here, and should be good to go from there i think

The only real advantage sticking to one company is that you can often use the same utility to manage both drives, like for updating firmware and such.

on my box, I have a WD SN850 2TB NVMe, and I have a 2TB Sandisk SATA based SSD where I leave my games. Both are WD products, so I can use the same utility and not have to load 2 different tools.

I've always trusted Samsung, all my internal drives are Sammies - 990 Pro, 980 Pro, 970 Evo Plus and a 4TB 870 Evo.
Backup drives are a T7 Touch 1TB, and a couple of Samsung 860 Evos that were removed when I put the M2 drives in. These are connected using a USB-SATA adapter

pparks1 said:

The only real advantage sticking to one company is that you can often use the same utility to manage both drives, like for updating firmware and such.

on my box, I have a WD SN850 2TB NVMe, and I have a 2TB Sandisk SATA based SSD where I leave my games. Both are WD products, so I can use the same utility and not have to load 2 different tools.

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I do not use Samsung Magician, it takes up almost 1 gig of space and is not needed. MS can manage Drives without 3rd party bloat.

Josey Wales said:

I do not use Samsung Magician, it takes up almost 1 gig of space and is not needed. MS can manage Drives without 3rd party bloat.

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All except for firmware updates, that is. The only alternative to using Magician is to download it as a linux-based ISO then boot from it.

Definitely going to Samsung i do think for my M.2 Needs, had a great experience on old system with my Samsung 970 Evo Plus Gen 3 M.2 NVMe, and for this PCie 4.0 NVMe think i'll definitely go with Samsung for sure now

Peformance so far hasn't been bad with this Kingston that was included from Ibuypower, but eventually definitely will have 2 Samsungs, and later on gonna get a USB C or USB 3.2 Samsung T7 External drive to replace Western Digital External (one of them lol)

Right now for externals have the following
WD Elements Desktop 500GB
WD My Passport Blue 2TB
WD My Passport Red 2TB
WD My Book 8TB (primary backup drive)
WD Black 4TB Mechanical Drive--Backup only for Video files, and old VHS converserions with seperate copy on Seagate 8TB Drive
OneDrive for secondary backup

And 1 Seagate Portable 1TB External drive

Bree said:

All except for firmware updates, that is. The only alternative to using Magician is to download it as a linux-based ISO then boot from it.

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Mine are all updated, I install Magician once in a while to check.