Amazon WD black 500 GB NVME SSD $170

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I just purchased the previous generation of this drive. I still paid less but not that much..
 
Glad prices are coming down but I really want a 1Tb below $300. The reason I want 1Tb is because games are getting insanely huge. Middle Earth: Shadow of War gold edition is 100Gb!!
 
Good to see WD up their game, but I really love the Toshiba 3 & 4TB drives
 
Damn good deal! I just picked one up last week for $163 on newegg. Damn good quick drive!
 
Is there any advantage for nvme drive in comparison with a sata based one? I mean, in real life usage (boot for windows, main files storage, some games etc).
 
rudy said:
It is also way smaller and lighter, on top of that it's where the future is headed, when ever case makers pull their heads out of the sand we will see lots of new smaller cases that remove the drive bays.

Laptops will start ditching the 2.5 bay too
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Bingo. I was looking into cases and see some changes but nothing significant. I expect during my next major upgrade in about 4 to 5 years PC cases will look completely different. HDD will be go bye bye just like disc drives.
 
The only thing that matters is speed. :)

all others are immaterial
It's [H]ardocp
Not SmallCaseSize-ocp or [RGB]ocp or [L]iteweightocp etc
 
panda70s said:
I was just expecting for a larger advantage since it's 7x times faster. And that wasn't the case on those tests. But, hey: that's only valid for me and my personal usage (boot drive, browsing internet, gaming etc).
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There are other components that affect the speed of just about every operation you could benchmark. 30-50% improvements in real world tasks is a massive improvement over what is already very fast storage. Only you can decide if that's worth the $$$.
 
I think it all depends on what you want out of the drive. If you want future proofing, which seems like a big advantage to building your own PC then trying pushing into NVME is a good bet. You never know how long a cycle is going to happen. Some computing improvements happen in leaps, then they go into small incremental changes. NVME is a leap, so if you are going to buy something right now then purchasing the leap product that can do 3200 MBS will probably result in a very long life for that product. IE for a couple builds into the future you can use this drive. That in addition to being able to build much smaller computers in the future. Another bonus, if you care is cord management, nothing makes for more organized builds then not having sata cables and power cables at all.

If all you want is SSD speed for the cheapest price then there are many cheaper drives, both M.2 and SATA.
 
TangledThornz said:
Bingo. I was looking into cases and see some changes but nothing significant. I expect during my next major upgrade in about 4 to 5 years PC cases will look completely different. HDD will be go bye bye just like disc drives.
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This really surprised me when I was looking at cases recently. I love the look of no 5 1/4 bays, but dammit...I need at least two!
 
wtf Amazon
they won't ship this to Alaska
I don't understand them sometimes.
 
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