OS installed on SM961 NVME drive GAMES on EVO 850 SSD advice

azza21 · 4 Sep 2016 at 11:20

Hi guys, i'm tempted to buy a 128GB Samsung SM961 drive and have my OS (windows 10) running on that drive and all my games stored/installed on my secondary Samsung 850 pro 512gb SSD. I know sata is slower than nvme drives but would playing my games on an SSD as my secondary drive affect the performance of the games in anyway?

cheers

BattFink · 4 Sep 2016 at 11:25

I run a similar setup, got a 512GB SM951 for my OS & applications, then a 1TB 850 EVO for games

You won't be able to tell the difference as to which drive the game is installed on. To be honest I'm not sure I can tell the difference from when I had the games sitting on a WD Velociraptor (except now there's less noise)

andicole0 · 4 Sep 2016 at 11:28

No hard drives in my games PC either, M.2 and various SSD's.
Andi.

whiterabbit · 4 Sep 2016 at 21:19

andicole0 said:
No hard drives in my games PC either, M.2 and various SSD's.
Andi.

Same here. It's rapid.

.:SAmSuNG:. · 5 Sep 2016 at 08:53

Mate I doubt u would notice if you had your os on the sata and the games on the nvme. Real world difference between any ssd is small.

Minstadave · 5 Sep 2016 at 08:55

I'm not sure M2 gives you anything but pretty numbers on benches.

Maundie · 5 Sep 2016 at 12:21

Minstadave said:
I'm not sure M2 gives you anything but pretty numbers on benches.

And 2 less cables inside, been toying with getting one myself but to be honest I'm not stuck for drive bays so it's a un-necessary expense really.

azza21 · 6 Sep 2016 at 20:29

Isn't there a negative to m.2 drives though...
I'm sure i've read that when they get hot the performances on NVME m.2 drives drastically drops, i heard its quite an issue and ideal to have a fan (if you can) blowing on it?

BattFink · 7 Sep 2016 at 10:34

azza21 said:
Isn't there a negative to m.2 drives though...
I'm sure i've read that when they get hot the performances on NVME m.2 drives drastically drops, i heard its quite an issue and ideal to have a fan (if you can) blowing on it?

I've not experienced any problems during day to day usage

I've seen it throttle back when performing repeated HD benchmarks, but as long as you've got a reasonable airflow in your case you shouldn't notice it

R3X · 7 Sep 2016 at 21:35

Question for owners, do you guys notice a big speed difference with these samsung 2000-3000 read m.2 drives over the standard ssds running at 500 read, especially for general windows 10 stuff ?

Just wondering if I should upgrade, currently got a samsung SSD 500 read/writes since everything is speedy as it is, windows takes 15-20 secs to load so no biggy.

BattFink · 8 Sep 2016 at 10:21

R3X said:
Question for owners, do you guys notice a big speed difference with these samsung 2000-3000 read m.2 drives over the standard ssds running at 500 read, especially for general windows 10 stuff ?

Just wondering if I should upgrade, currently got a samsung SSD 500 read/writes since everything is speedy as it is, windows takes 15-20 secs to load so no biggy.

For general usage I'd say no.

I do notice a difference when pulling data to/from my NAS/servers which are connected via 10GBe (but most home users don't use 10GBe)

R3X · 8 Sep 2016 at 14:48

BattFink said:
For general usage I'd say no.

I do notice a difference when pulling data to/from my NAS/servers which are connected via 10GBe (but most home users don't use 10GBe)

thanks had a feeling would not notice it much, guess the 2-3 secs it takes to open stuff is not a major difference!

.:SAmSuNG:. · 10 Sep 2016 at 16:06

R3X said:
Question for owners, do you guys notice a big speed difference with these samsung 2000-3000 read m.2 drives over the standard ssds running at 500 read, especially for general windows 10 stuff ?

Just wondering if I should upgrade, currently got a samsung SSD 500 read/writes since everything is speedy as it is, windows takes 15-20 secs to load so no biggy.

Nope

HoneyBadger · 15 Sep 2016 at 15:36

I'm not saying this is purely down to using an m.2 but rig 2 in my sig goes from power on to windows desktop (fully loaded in about 5 seconds) 15-20 is quite a bit slower in comparison.

ArmitageShanks · 16 Sep 2016 at 10:02

R3X said:
Question for owners, do you guys notice a big speed difference with these samsung 2000-3000 read m.2 drives over the standard ssds running at 500 read, especially for general windows 10 stuff ?

Just wondering if I should upgrade, currently got a samsung SSD 500 read/writes since everything is speedy as it is, windows takes 15-20 secs to load so no biggy.

Probably not worth it. I boot off a 950 PRO in under 10 seconds, but for gaming and general applications there's very little difference between that and my SATA-based 850 PRO. The NVMe drives I think would mainly benefit applications that handle large sequentially-accessed files e.g. video editing.