Zarathustra[H]
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Ok let me put it another way, and btw, you guys need to stop playing. You know exactly the point I am trying to make.
I'm talking about BOOT drives ...
Would you agree most people care about speed? Boot times? Loading times? The answer is a definitive yes. You don't ..... so you're outside the scope of the point I was trying to illustrate.
What I really want to get across to you guys is that this drive is a very cheap $120 ..... its faster than most drives and as fast as the Samsung EVO Plus .... give or take % here and there.
It is a good price, but in the grand scheme of things, the speed improvements are not practically relevant.
Jumping from spinning hard drives to SATA SSD's was a HUGE LEAP in performance. Going from the fastest SATA SSD's to PCIe/NVMe SSD's was a much smaller deal. I could barely tell the difference going from my old 512GB SATA Samsung 850 Pro to my 400GB PCIe NVMe Intel 750.
Sure it benched much higher, but in boot and load times? Meh, it was an unremarkable change, nothing like that first amazing leap from hard drives to SATA SSD's. A handful of percent difference between fast TLC NVMe drives like these is likely not even noticeable outside of benchmarks, and they will still fall down in an extended write scenario when the write buffer runs out, as compared to an MLC drive.
If you don't already have an NVMe boot drive on your desktop or need a larger one, these are a great buy (provided long term reliability holds up) but for anything involving heavy writes (cache disk, scratch disk, etc.) you'll definitely want MLC.
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