Is NVME worth it?

MagicBoy said:
Have you watched the two videos posted 10th November. It's a couple of seconds in most cases, for a markup of at least a third.

When @Gibbo is posting deals that good on the 860EVO it's really worth thinking twice. I'd opt for more capacity or invest the savings in other components like a GPU upgrade.
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Yeah, if it's price to performance then for sure something like a 860EVO would be seen as better.
The question was "is NVME worth it"? Again, that would be subjective, and in my usage with the 970 pro it was worth it.
With a recent upgrade of a 9900k, we are talking some pretty fast stuff, but maybe those few seconds with NVME that matter to me might be insignificant to Vidar. I think he could be happy with either of what Gibbo's offering!
 
To put my two pennies into the debate NVME drives have come down to a point of being justifiable in terms of price performance, just don’t run multiple NVME drives on most systems.

Generally only a single NVME has x4 connection to the CPU and most other slots use the chipset, unless you have a high-end motherboard capable of having a RAID card, 500GB NVME boot drive and a SATA based SSD for bulk storage is generally the best option unless you need a tonne of bulk storage.
 
I honestly do not understand people who say it's not worth it. It most certainly is. There is a noticeable difference with an NVMe. I was so impressed with them I fitted them to two of my best PC's.
Personally I use an NVMe for the OS and a Sata SSD for games. The games drive is 1TB .... I need size rather than speed and cost is a factor. NVMe is noticeably faster and if you disable Prefetch and Superfetch then you gain additional cpu power that was otherwise wasted by Windows. You just don't need those two rattling in the background if you have an NVMe.
I would not go back to Sata SSD's now.
 
just moved from nvme to sata ssd for my boot drive to get more hard drive space - its literally no different, using the nvme as a scratch disk now and page file location, using my other ssd on a usb3 plug - it benches abit slower but again absolutely no different editing vast amounts of 4k video off it.

boot - 500gb sata ssd
scratch - 250gb nvme
work disk - 1tb ssd on usb 3
 
Just picked up one of the Samsung NVME drives OCUK have on offer at the moment (Evo 970 500GB).
It will be replacing my ageing Samsung 840 Pro SSD which is only 256GB and the old drive will become my "Recording to" drive.

I'm not expecting to see or feel any difference in my day to day use but it will allow me to get rid of a 2TB Seagate HDD I use for recording currently and a WD HDD I use for media so will remove the spinning disk entity from my PC. That will create a real world difference, less/no noise from drives spinning up and down and faster access to the files on them.
 
pp111 said:
I honestly do not understand people who say it's not worth it. It most certainly is. There is a noticeable difference with an NVMe. I was so impressed with them I fitted them to two of my best PC's.
Personally I use an NVMe for the OS and a Sata SSD for games. The games drive is 1TB .... I need size rather than speed and cost is a factor. NVMe is noticeably faster and if you disable Prefetch and Superfetch then you gain additional cpu power that was otherwise wasted by Windows. You just don't need those two rattling in the background if you have an NVMe.
I would not go back to Sata SSD's now.
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You dont need them with a SATA SSD either. For OS boot times and app loading times NVME is pretty much the same as a SATA SSD.
 
No, but based on the fact It got to the point of the loading symbol, the circle on the splash screen and it doesn't now, and it is visibly shorter, like 3 seconds to boot, I know it's bade a difference.
 
Having switched between NVME on my Macbook running Windows, and my Desktop with an 860 EVO (Sata), I can't tell a single bit of difference.

I would personally be picking a SATA based SSD over NVME all day long, as you either:
  • Get more storage for the same money/a little more
  • spend less for the same storage
 
willhub said:
No, but based on the fact It got to the point of the loading symbol, the circle on the splash screen and it doesn't now, and it is visibly shorter, like 3 seconds to boot, I know it's bade a difference.
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I agree with you completely. People who can't see the difference baffle me! I mean I can even tell you if the NVMe is x2 or x4 just based on just watching the boot up! I mean the difference is obvious. I can only assume they aren't disabling Prefetch and Superfetch or something. I am at a completely loss to explain why they can't see the difference. But anyway, for me an NVMe is worth every penny as a boot-up drive, I would never go back to a standard SSD. They are just so slow!!!!
 
Faster yes. BUT!...

On a sata 3 Samsung evo, the longest part of my boot sequence is me picking my keyboard up and typing my windows password in.

So I'm currently the bottleneck lol!
 
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