N4CR
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Very cool test thank you and confirmed what I have felt with m2 Vs sata. Expected ramdrive to be more consistent and little faster though. Raid6 spinning rust did well.
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I've never heard of a good case for upgrade an SSD for performance. Even if you are running one of the earlier models, capacity is the strongest reason for upgrading.I've been thinking about getting an m.2 nvme drive, but I guess I'll wait since I still have space on my Sata3 SSD.
I've never heard of a good case for upgrade an SSD for performance. Even if you are running one of the earlier models, capacity is the strongest reason for upgrading.
I will upgade from my 256gb samsung 830 to something like the Intel 600p 1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe. I've thought about upgrading earlier but most people say that under normal usage I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
That's sad, I wouldn't mind low M.2 (but higher than SATA) performance if the price is right.Do some research on that Intel 600p...I almost considered it but the reviews were pretty bad saying you were better off using any other drive as it choked up in the cache and failed miserably even causing reboots and freezes.
Could you test with even just 1 game? Also Steam Play exists today where it didnt in 2016. Could be a game changer at least for compatibility. Thanks for your hard work on this very enlightening nonetheless.I tried to get ReFS working on my 850 EVO to test if there was a difference. Unfortunately it failed to format every time.
I would have loved to test on Ubuntu or Mint as well, but Fallout 4 doesn't have Linux support. And with that game being the only one with meaningful load time differences (that I've found), I'd rather not wipe all my data from my gaming PC to test the few games that would work and likely still show minimal differences.
I'm planning to upgrade from my trusty Samsung 830 256GB to a Samsung 970 EVO 500GB, unless the 1TB sees a major discount this month.
I'm hoping to notice a difference in responsiveness.
It will be double the size and many times faster. I will be watching for a Black Friday sale to see what I can get in the 500GB-1TB range.depends on what your doing but the 970 evo is considerably faster then the 830 (its about 200% to 500% faster depending what your doing)
https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compa...e-M2-500GB-vs-Samsung-830-256GB/m493995vs1387
i would get the 1TB if your planning on using it with say games so you don't have to use 2 drives
if a SATA evo or Crucial MX500 is available at 1TB you save money and get larger SSD for less money (but if you have the m.2 slot i would use it if you don't mind spending £/$ 50-90 more)
It will be double the size and many times faster. I will be watching for a Black Friday sale to see what I can get in the 500GB-1TB range.
I'm just hoping that the performance difference will be noticeable in responsiveness.
Some programs like Word with Mendeley can be sluggish when working with very large documents for example, but I'm not sure what the bottleneck is.
I didn't think an i7-6700k would bottleneck word 2016.Single threaded CPU performance is likely the bottleneck if you are already accessing it from a SSD.
I didn't think an i7-6700k would bottleneck word 2016.
Single threaded programs are limited every day by even the fastest CPU available.I didn't think an i7-6700k would bottleneck word 2016.
and only Forspoken (delayed until Jan 2023 - which does look interesting) taking advantage of Microsoft's new DirectStorage API to leverage these blazing fast MB/s speeds.