Sn550 to sn850, worth the effort?

beasty6 · 23 Jun 2022 at 08:15

Hi all,

I have a SN550 as my boot/windows drive and a 870 QVO as my game drive.

I've seen the SN850 1TB new for £97, is it worth picking it up, having it as my boot drive, then the SN550 as my game drive and the QVO 870 as a general storage drive?

I don't need extra space, just wondering.if.i would see a more snappy, faster PC in general startup, apps loading etc

Also I'm running a 5800x, B550 Strix-F
Cheers

Glanza · 23 Jun 2022 at 10:18

You probably won't notice a difference in boot times, benchmarks and tests will show a faster speed but day to day usage once you're on an SSD or above no real difference in 'perceived' speeds.

beasty6 · 23 Jun 2022 at 11:01

Nice one, thanks for the advice.
No use to me then.
Cheers

EsaT · 23 Jun 2022 at 14:40

Yep, no sense unless you need more space.
(or have enough money "for even sheeps to eat")

lsg1r · 23 Jun 2022 at 16:55

Not worth the effort imo.... I'm struggling to notice the difference between sata and nvme gen 4 ssd's in day to day stuff.

Larger file transfers are a little different obviously but you're capped by the drives there anyway.