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M2 NVME vs M2 SATA

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wolveen

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Hey Guys
Any thoughts on this? I am building a new Intel 8th Gen system
The NVME is so freaking amazing but is it overkill for gaming, VR, MS Office productivity?

The price difference is just huge...

I dont know whether to get the M.2 1TB NVME ($449) or just a M.2 1TB SATA ($280ish) and just put the extra $170 into other areas

I found this on youtube and would love to get everyones input:

 
Personally I would get a smaller nvme maybe 256gb (maybe even 128) for os then just get sata solid state drives for storage.. unless you have the $$$ then nvme all the way...

Just remember games are getting bigger so having a lot of storage isn't necessarily a bad thing... I went with 2 - 7200 2tb drives in raid 0 for my games, music, videos and use a 4tb 5200 for its backup with a 500gb 960 for the os... if i could do it over the only thing I would change is I would have went with a smaller nvme because I basically put everything on the spinners anyway...
 
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hitched said:
Personally I would get a smaller nvme maybe 256gb (maybe even 128) for os then just get sata solid state drives for storage.. unless you have the $$$ then nvme all the way...

Just remember games are getting bigger so having a lot of storage isn't necessarily a bad thing... I went with 2 - 7200 2tb drives in raid 0 for my games, music, videos and use a 4tb 5200 for its backup with a 500gb 960 for the os... if i could do it over the only thing I would change is I would have went with a smaller nvme because I basically put everything on the spinners anyway...
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Yeah I thought about using a small NVME (512GB) but currently with most my games and programs that I use, I total about 450-500GB.
So I figure why not just grab a 1TB version to hold it all :)

At least buying a 1TB option should buy me a few hundred GB of future until the prices finally come within reason to grab a second M.2 1TB or 2 TB chip to add as a secondary storage.

I do have spinners (for streaming movies to my Shield and Firesticks) and a few games that wont fit on my SSD.
The games on the spinner do have a noticeable load times compared to be loaded on the SSD and at times a chop or stutter.

Hmmm I wonder if I should just snag the 1 TB M.2 SSD until the prices come down on the 1 TB M.2 NVME , then I could in theory copy my SSD boot to the NVME chip and then swap them over using the NVME as the boot in the future ...discussion is good! :)

I mean will any game even VR use 3,938 MB per second of the NVME? Or would 750MB suffice...
 
For games, no. Buy the biggest SSD that you can afford, but NVME won't bring anything to the table over a good quality SATA III SSD - https://hardforum.com/threads/nvme-...a-iii-ssd-game-load-time-comparisons.1911914/

Scroll down to the bottom of the first post for some other reviews if you don't believe mine.

If you just want to fill the slot because it is there, then go for it. Just don't expect anything more than crazy high synthetic benchmarks if you just game on that machine.
 
What is an M.2 SSD? I assume you just mean as SATA III SSD. I just grabbed a 1TB Evo to act as my system, apps, and games drive as my 256GB 840 Pro was full. Since I don't have an M.2 slot, this will fill the bill until I upgrade in a year or so. At that point, I'll go with a small M.2, probably 256GB or 512GB and use the Evo for storage. I say go for a 256GB or 512GB M.2 NVME drive for your situation.
 
To tell you the truth, the difference in performance for even more workstation - oriented tasks is not perceivable between a decent SATA SSD and an NVM-Express drive.

Very few tasks can leverage the performance that NVM-Express brings to the table. It's mostly just about bragging rights.
 
kamikazi said:
What is an M.2 SSD? I assume you just mean as SATA III SSD. I just grabbed a 1TB Evo to act as my system, apps, and games drive as my 256GB 840 Pro was full. Since I don't have an M.2 slot, this will fill the bill until I upgrade in a year or so. At that point, I'll go with a small M.2, probably 256GB or 512GB and use the Evo for storage. I say go for a 256GB or 512GB M.2 NVME drive for your situation.
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"M.2" is just the name for the connector. Both SATA and NVME drives are available with an M.2 connector.
 
kamikazi said:
What is an M.2 SSD? I assume you just mean as SATA III SSD. I just grabbed a 1TB Evo to act as my system, apps, and games drive as my 256GB 840 Pro was full. Since I don't have an M.2 slot, this will fill the bill until I upgrade in a year or so. At that point, I'll go with a small M.2, probably 256GB or 512GB and use the Evo for storage. I say go for a 256GB or 512GB M.2 NVME drive for your situation.
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M.2 drives come with either a SATA or NVME controller on them. If you get an M.2 SATA drive, and your motherboard is set up for it, it'll internally connect to one of the motherboard's SATA ports (usually disabling one of the physical ports). M.2 NVME drives have a controller that connects directly to the motherboard's or CPU's PCIe lanes.
 
OK, I didn't realize they made M.2 drives that were non-NVME. So, just for the ability to attach directly to the motherboard.
 
wolveen said:
The NVME is so freaking amazing but is it overkill for gaming, VR, MS Office productivity?
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Negative. Save the money, buy a sata variant. I could sort of see getting a 256gb nvme drive for the OS to experiment with but that is my limit as the price difference isn't too bad there.
 
kamikazi said:
OK, I didn't realize they made M.2 drives that were non-NVME. So, just for the ability to attach directly to the motherboard.
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Yep cleaner case, no power wires and no data wires just snap it in and screw it down :)
 
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I just bought the Adata xpg 600 something or other that was on sale for $54 on Newegg.

128gb nvme. Plan is to load the OS on there, 850 Evo for games, and hdd for everything else.

It's the first part for an un-decided build that will take place in 4-8 months. Hopefully it works out.
 
See my sig, I came from an older SSD on SATA 3... err maybe 2 so I was bottlenecked there.

There difference in performance to ME was worth the cost. Then again it's all in the eyes of the beer holder.
 
Yeah coming from an older Ssd to a new drive like the evo or the better nvme will definetly be perceptible. But you’d need to drink a lot of beer to think you can tell the difference between an nvme drive and a good newer ssd!
 
I cannot tell any real-world difference between my 500GB Samsung 960 EVO (M.2 NVMe) and my 500GB Samsung 850 EVO (2.5" SATA). I think you'd need a very particular use case to tell the difference, but in general OS use and games there's zero perceptible difference in my experience.
 
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