Anyone notice the performance gain from SATA3 SSD to NVMe drives?

pc-guy · 18 Apr 2017 at 17:34

anyone can put real experiences on here for me please?

I don't care about benchmarks as the read and write speeds is irrelevant for any sort of normal applications unless you are working on large data processing.

Normal working condition:
Office/Browsing/Gaming

Maundie · 18 Apr 2017 at 19:50

I swapped my SATA drive for a M.2 NVMe drive, haven't really noticed any difference (feels a little snappier but that could be because I've done a complete fresh re-install)

pc-guy · 19 Apr 2017 at 12:07

is that a complete system overhaul or just drive upgrade?

chilipeppersc · 19 Apr 2017 at 12:09

There is a difference but real world usage is minimal, that's simply because sata ssds are already extremely efficient

Disco_P · 19 Apr 2017 at 13:54

5yo samsung 830 to brand new samsung sm951 with a fresh install.

No noticeable difference.

Maundie · 19 Apr 2017 at 16:32

pc-guy said:
is that a complete system overhaul or just drive upgrade?

Remove a 240Gb Kingston V300 and replace with a Samsung SM951 and a fresh Win10 install (rather than a Windows 8 with a Win10 upgrade)

Glanza · 19 Apr 2017 at 16:48

Only program I found a difference on was Lightroom.

FrankJH · 20 Apr 2017 at 10:14

chilipeppersc said:
There is a difference but real world usage is minimal, that's simply because sata ssds are already extremely efficient

exactly

as above if its part of a whole new system there is no point not not going for NVMe but if its just a hdd / SSd swap its 6 of 1 , half a dozen of the other

Actually thinking about it - if you are going to boot off it (and therefore do a complete Windows re-install / reimage) should also be part of decision making in the sense of its pointless going for NVMe if you are not reinstalling Windows imo

moogle · 20 Apr 2017 at 10:25

No perceivable difference to the average user. Same goes for different tier SATA SSD's. Just make sure you don't get a crap one that's all

Rannoch · 20 Apr 2017 at 10:27

No difference that I could see.

RSR · 20 Apr 2017 at 13:59

I've both a Intel 750 and a few Samsung 850's and in games there is no difference, windows feels a bit snapper but that could be more of a placebo effect. The only difference I have noticed is using some of the Adobe CC programs like Premiere for instance with scrubbing through time lines etc...

pc-guy · 20 Apr 2017 at 14:25

Glanza said:
Only program I found a difference on was Lightroom.

I use that quite a bit. I also use a bit of post processing. I found lightroom gets a bit boost from CPU and ram upgrade as it doesn't seem to use any of the graphic processing power

Caged · 24 Apr 2017 at 22:25

I wouldn't purchase a non-NVMe SSD now, but I also wouldn't upgrade a SATA SSD to PCI-E.

pc-guy · 26 Apr 2017 at 13:59

Caged said:
I wouldn't purchase a non-NVMe SSD now

why would you say that? the price differential is still quite large.

edscdk · 26 Apr 2017 at 14:13

Vargas said:
No difference that I could see.

similar experience, benchmark speed was nearly 3x faster... real world it may well be faster but not that I notice.. the only time I "thought" it might have been a bit quicker was loading Doom3 levels

bledd · 27 Apr 2017 at 12:13

I read a comparative review with something like a Samsung 850 to the 950, some games had 1 second faster loading time.

Pyr0m@nI@]{ · 27 Apr 2017 at 12:25

Swapped from an 850 pro to a 950 and I have not been able to notice any real difference in boot/loading times

Aberfala · 28 Apr 2017 at 17:20

I went from a Samsung 840 Pro SATA to a 950 Pro NVMe and can't see any difference at all.

shamus21 · 2 May 2017 at 09:11

Switching from a SSD to NVME drive is more about shifting large blocks of data more quickly so unless you have a work load that requires that sort of speed just stick with the SSD and windows is more tuned for SSD`s including win 10.

Fishpan · 6 May 2017 at 12:54

Went from Samsung 500gb 850 Evo Sata SSD to Toshiba 512gb XG3 OEM M.2. NVMe SSD, the difference in boot time is astounding. Also load into multiplayer games much quicker. Aside from that, can't say much apart from the difference being way noticeable when copying and moving large files/folders around. Bear in mind that the NVMe M.2 SSDs tend to get super hot in some cases so make sure you got good cooling. I reach 70C under load on my Toshiba SSD.