whats the point in NVME M.2 SSD's?

hornetstinger said:
Maybe a few years from now the OS is stored on the CPU itself or perhaps on the motherboard itself, mega fast. Pretty sure that could be one, rather than having to go through PCI-E bus.
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I don't think this will happen, simply due to the fact OS's keep increasing in size.

However part of the OS can already be cached on the motherboard with Optane.
 
I got a 512Gb NVME drive today for a bargain price. It has now replaced a 120gb SSD which is sold, and that frees up space for another 4TB drive. Quite happy with the space saving.
 
They're great for moving large files around, especially for content creators who record and edit large videos.

For gaming, there is no benefit compared to a standard SSD.

When they get cheaper per GB in future, I'll definitely pick one up and use as a bootable drive.
 
TeraVirus said:
They're great for moving large files around, especially for content creators who record and edit large videos.
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Which is fair enough, but you still need other fast storage, or a fast network (10gb+) and fast storage at the other end, otherwise there's no benefit over a sata ssd.
 
Armageus said:
Which is fair enough, but you still need other fast storage, or a fast network (10gb+) and fast storage at the other end, otherwise there's no benefit over a sata ssd.
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Yeah that's right, having a sata SSD or mech drive would just slow you down if transferring to m.2.
 
They offer greater bandwidth and use less CPU resources, latency and power when in use, all good things, allows laptops to sip the juice, desktop to go fast and require no cable management.

For me, there is no reason to buy a Sata SSD anymore, NVMe everytime, even the slow cheap M2 drives out perform a Sata SSD RAID0 drive. I do like the look of my Sata Array on the back of the motherboard tray though, nice and compact all in a line, orderly, nice to get a few GB/s transfers between drives, its all so quick, but can't match my PM961s

The only reason I can see not to buy an NVMe (as cost isn't really that much worse) is if you don't have spare PCI-e lanes.

Very little benefit over and normal SSD for a boot drive though.
 
Is there anyone here who has used them for music production or large Adobe file editing?

The two use cases I'm considering is that of loading large soundpacks into memory for Sibelius music playback. Approx 4GB seems to get populated in the RAM when loading the sound for large scores with many instruments. This can take minutes on a spindle drive, and currently seems to be taking 30-60 seconds on a Samsung 840 2.5" SSD.

The second use case is very large Photoshop files, anywhere from 1 to 5GB. These aren't too bad currently, but I'm wondering if there's a noticeable improvement with an NVMe device.

Any feedback from those who may have experienced similar use cases would be appreciated :)
 
UberTiger said:
Is there anyone here who has used them for music production or large Adobe file editing?

The two use cases I'm considering is that of loading large soundpacks into memory for Sibelius music playback. Approx 4GB seems to get populated in the RAM when loading the sound for large scores with many instruments. This can take minutes on a spindle drive, and currently seems to be taking 30-60 seconds on a Samsung 840 2.5" SSD.

The second use case is very large Photoshop files, anywhere from 1 to 5GB. These aren't too bad currently, but I'm wondering if there's a noticeable improvement with an NVMe device.

Any feedback from those who may have experienced similar use cases would be appreciated :)
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Can you test how long those files will take to load on this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wALFrUd6Ttw
 
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