Nvme 1tb or standard ssd

Rob43

Rob43

Rob43

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Just putting together a new build. I can't decided what way to go here. Been reading up a bit, but some advice needed.

At the minute, I am using an older crucial 256GB M500 as a boot drive. I also have a Bx500 250Gb. I would like to keep using them. I also have a 2tb wd hdd for storage.

Do I just use one of my existing crucial ssds as the boot, buy 1tb nvme or ssd for gaming drive?

Hope that makes sense

Rob
 
I have just replaced 2 x 256gb ssds with a Samsung NVMe 1tb evo so I can have one drive, less cables and more space as previously one was a os drive and the other was a games drive.

if your happy with the 1tb SATA drives then that is fine but I don’t upgrade often and put the extra in to it as it was about £50 more. The extra speeds where a bonus as well as instead of 500mb read and write I now get 3,500mb read and 2,500mb write.

I forgot to add to be careful with the cheaper NVMe drives like the intel P600 series or the gigabyte ones, these are quite a bit cheaper but doing research on this they are cheap because once the cache fills up with moving data around (about 12gb) the speeds drop loads as the cache is full and will restore back to normal speeds once the drive finishes moving the data around. There is YouTube videos on this if you look for reviews on tv cheaper NVMe drives.

speed test below

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Rob43 said:
Cheers bud, I think I go may just go the same way

Rob
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My original budget was £120 but the drives in this price range where the ones with the cache issues so paid £180 for the Samsung 970 Evo NVMe drive which is what the results where from above. Was more than I wanted to spend but I thought in the long run it would be the better option and then saves me Replacing it later on again for better speeds or to remove cables etc
 
I recently went for a Sabrent Rocket 1TB NVME M.2 and a Crucial 2TB MX500 Sata. When I get round to reinstalling Windows the Sabrent will be the boot drive and the Crucial will be for games, with a remnant 2TB hdd for storage. I From what have gathered a games drive doesn't need to be an nvme so a sata drive is perfectly fine, as the speed difference is not noticeable, and 2TB is the sweet spot for me. As they become cheaper I will probably add more 2TB sata ssd's to the system if more space is required, whilst probably never upgrading the boot drive from now on.
 
Rob43 said:
Are these overkill just for a games drive?

I was looking at these two
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sams...olid-state-drive-mz-76e1t0b-eu-hd-234-sa.html

The Sabrent 1TB ROCKET NVMe PCIe M.2 2280

I was thinking, I could just use my Crucial BX500 for boot/windows.
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That 860 Evo is standard SATA SSD... with brand extra pricing.
You can get NVMe drives for less like WD Blue SN550.
(Rocket Q is QLC drive which I would avoid unless price is clearly lower than in TLC drives)

This is more proper pice level for SATA SSD.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t2b0a-hd-54j-wd.html

No sense to use old low end drive as OS drive.



ED209 said:
My original budget was £120 but the drives in this price range where the ones with the cache issues so paid £180 for the Samsung 970 Evo NVMe drive which is what the results where from above.
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That write cache doesn't affect for example game loading times any.
But that (lot less than stellar) Q1T1 random 4k read affects...
 
EsaT said:
That write cache doesn't affect for example game loading times any.
But that (lot less than stellar) Q1T1 random 4k read affects...
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Yeah, if your not moving around a lot of data or large amounts of files then once it’s there it should be ok. Just may take awhile to move large games to the nvme drive that are over 12gb as a lot of games are.

modern warefare is 185gb, the division 1 and 2 are from 50gb to 65gb each etc so they will all run in to this issue unless downloading them from scratch.
 
ED209 said:
modern warefare is 185gb, the division 1 and 2 are from 50gb to 65gb each etc so they will all run in to this issue unless downloading them from scratch.
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Aren't you also forgetting some 100GB space requirement level games?
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/7070...e-requires-colossal-100gb-of-space/index.html

Which also makes space for budget important, so that there's no need to uninstall-reinstall cycle games.
And Samsung fares really really badly in that comparison.
 
I think I'm going to get the sabrent rocket not the q version & use it for a boot drive & add another down the line

Cheers for the info folks

Rob
 
NVME has two advantages mainly:
  1. Saves cable management;
  2. Higher burst throughput.
For me I don't care about performance that much, but being able to avoid SATA data cables and SATA power cables is a must for me.
 
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