980 Pro Worthwhile?

NoNameNoNumber · 14 Oct 2020 at 19:43

New build incoming, just trying to weigh up what to do WRT storage. Thinking of using the 250Gb 980 for Windows and programs, then use my existing SSDs for games/media for now and add another M.2 like the Western digital Blue at a later date and phase the SSDs out.

I guess the question is, will I se any benefit from the extra speed the 980 brings or should I just go for the WD Blue from the get go?

Thank you.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Samsung 980 Pro 250GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £98.99
1 x MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk WiFi (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 ATX Motherboard= £209.99

Total: £319.48 (includes shipping: £10.50)

chaparral · 14 Oct 2020 at 23:06

Maybe this is just me but there 2 things i see there

1) There no way i would pay about £100 for just a 250GB drive these days
2) I wouldn't go below a 500GB M.2 now for even my main C: windows/ Programs drive. (If i was buying new today it would be a 1TB drive for sure )

NoNameNoNumber · 15 Oct 2020 at 08:16

chaparral said:
Maybe this is just me but there 2 things i see there

1) There no way i would pay about £100 for just a 250GB drive these days
2) I wouldn't go below a 500GB M.2 now for even my main C: windows/ Programs drive. (If i was buying new today it would be a 1TB drive for sure )

I only really have Chrome, Steam, Origin, UPlay and a bit of OC software tbh. So 250gb is more than enough. That said. I appreciate that £100 for 250gb does sting a little, hence the question of whether twice the speed on the 980 for boot drive would be worth while.

Deluxe1 · 15 Oct 2020 at 09:04

You could have had the WD Black SN750 1TB for £119 yesterday.

I'd of taken that any day of the week over a 250GB 980 Pro.

NoNameNoNumber · 15 Oct 2020 at 09:06

Deluxe1 said:
You could have had the WD Black SN750 1TB for £119 yesterday.

I'd of taken that any day of the week over a 250GB 980 Pro.

Ooft, was that a Prime day?

I guess I could wait it out to black friday.

Deluxe1 · 15 Oct 2020 at 09:25

NoNameNoNumber said:
Ooft, was that a Prime day?

I guess I could wait it out to black friday.

Yeah, also on the WD site they matched it. Good call on waiting for black friday.

EsaT · 15 Oct 2020 at 15:26

I wouldn't pay £100 even from 500GB drive.
If you look around you can find 1TB Adata SX8200 Pro for £110.

With games bloating up like this you don't want to waste limited M.2 slots for pipsqueek drives.
https://www.pcgamer.com/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-no-longer-fits-on-a-250gb-ssd/
Remember that SSD space you don't have has zero speed.

NoNameNoNumber · 15 Oct 2020 at 17:16

EsaT said:
I wouldn't pay £100 even from 500GB drive.
If you look around you can find 1TB Adata SX8200 Pro for £110.

With games bloating up like this you don't want to waste limited M.2 slots for pipsqueek drives.
https://www.pcgamer.com/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-no-longer-fits-on-a-250gb-ssd/
Remember that SSD space you don't have has zero speed.

Perfect thank you.
So I could run two of those drives on the x570 Tomahawk and just partition one for windows?

EsaT · 15 Oct 2020 at 17:36

For 2TB of space might just as well buy similarly very well priced 2TB SX8200 Pro to leave other M.2 slot free for future addition.

IvanDobskey · 16 Oct 2020 at 09:08

£100 for a 250gb nvme?? Wow that's bonkers. Just paid £127 for a 1tb gen 4 sabrent rocket. Those Samsung drives sure are overpriced!

My current 500gb sata ssd drive isn't really big enough. You need at least 1tb these days.

Disco_P · 16 Oct 2020 at 16:35

I don't think I have ever heard someone talk about how noticeably fast any NVME SSD is over a SATA SSD in general use let alone going from one NVME to another NVME. Mostly it's just people benchmarking sequential reads and writes and shouting ZOMG IT'S SO FAST.

I have no doubt the the 980 Pro will be very fast in every situation but I'd also be wary of spending 1TB money on a 250GB drive.

NoNameNoNumber · 17 Oct 2020 at 11:41

Cheers all,
I'll bag an SX8200 then if I spot a good price on one.
Assume it's not worth trying to gen a Gen 4 given the above comments on how little the extra speeds really matter?

uscool · 18 Oct 2020 at 13:39

I went ahead and bought the SB-ROCKET-1TB the blue one for £80 and registered it for 5 years on the sabrent site, I bought it to replace my 5 year old 1tb 7200rpm for game storage no more spin ups/ seeking noise and faster I currently use 256gb nvme for windows and storage If I move to zen3 will probably get gen4 nvme for os/software/games, at the moment we dont see difference between gen3 and gen4 maybe once RTX IO/ DirectStorage for Windows we will start seeing differences