Finally Samsung have their PCIe 5 SSD coming in March or April. I’ve been holding out on upgrading my storage waiting for these. Hopefully OCUK get them in stock soon.
Samsung 9100 Pro
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Seconded. Feel like I ought to at least have one PCIE-5 device in the PCIE-5 motherboard I've owend for more than a year! (And the less said about PCIE-5 GPUs the better! lol)
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I can't see this extra bandwidth benefits desktop users in any meaningful way.
You'll never have anything internet source that can saturate it's write speeds. Large local transfers will be bottlenecked by the other media you're copying from/too, maybe marginally faster loading times is all you'll get.
You'll never have anything internet source that can saturate it's write speeds. Large local transfers will be bottlenecked by the other media you're copying from/too, maybe marginally faster loading times is all you'll get.
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First review has appeared. Not a lot of detail but it’s positive. https://www.thumbculture.co.uk/samsung-9100-pro-2tb-nvme-m-2-ssd-review/amp
honestly not really bothered about the speed remind me when the prices are back to the low a year or two ago
So far so good. I swapped out the 990 Pro. Immediately noticed the much faster boot time. Then proceeded to install games. Huge game files were downloaded and then installed in seconds. I should get a chance to actually run some games tomorrow.
Its mild now. Actual gains for gamers from a SATA III SSD to a NVME Gen 5 SSD are tiny
Not so sure about that.
Installed the 9100 (Gen 5) which arrived this afternoon: loading into games is smoother and quicker than my trusty 990pro (Gen 4)
Uh huh
If you feels it worth it to save a couple percent of time then go for it
You can save even more time by switching to a 2nd hand optane drive
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It is worth it!
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It's really not. The money would be better spent elsewhere in your system unless you've just got cash to burn.
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I have seen some reviews, some of which are ambivalent about Gen 5 SSD and its uses outside of productivity tasks (involving large file transfers). I am also very happy to be convinced I am barking up the wrong tree.
What I do know is that switching to SSDs in the 2010s significantly quickened loading of Windows and entry into games; compared to HDD. Again, when I last updated to a Samsung 990 Pro I noticed an incremental (admittedly, not as sizeable leap compared to the HDD switch) improvement in speeds. So, it follows, that given the Gen 5 SSD (9100 pro) is double the speed of my older Gen 4 (990 Pro), I should once again experience faster and more responsive Windows and quicker loading of games; which justify my purchase this week!
What I do know is that switching to SSDs in the 2010s significantly quickened loading of Windows and entry into games; compared to HDD. Again, when I last updated to a Samsung 990 Pro I noticed an incremental (admittedly, not as sizeable leap compared to the HDD switch) improvement in speeds. So, it follows, that given the Gen 5 SSD (9100 pro) is double the speed of my older Gen 4 (990 Pro), I should once again experience faster and more responsive Windows and quicker loading of games; which justify my purchase this week!