For context, my brother gave me Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2 for my birthday, and it has to be installed on an SSD. When I installed it on my D: drive, which, is an HDD, the game froze a few seconds into the opening cutscene, but the sound kept playing. After looking up this problem online, I found out that the hardware requirements section on the game’s store page says “SSD required”.
Ideally something with DRAM based on TLC NAND. That said if you’re NOT going to run an OS off it and just games QLC NAND should be fine though I’d still want DRAM.
Here’s the thing though. If you’re getting an NVMe based drive (because you have a free NVMe slot on your motherboard) many don’t have DRAM and can be fine (it’s still better but their higher speeds and things like using host RAM mean they can get away with it).
Amazon’s on page AI question assistant should usually be able to tell you whether a drive is TLC by simply asking it “TLC”, same with whether it has DRAM though you can also look up details like this on certain tech review sites.
I’d stick to the brands mentioned in the other comment as well as Crucial and SK Hynix. Those two plus Samsung I believe are the only ones in the west who actually make the NAND storage while others just make a controller.