Previous thread over a week old, seems Amazon have more stock for those who wanted one.
11 comments
stevej1976
31 Jul 17#1
how does this stack up against the samsung pro and evo.
EndlessWaves to stevej1976
31 Jul 17#2
Under what sort of workload?
(for most people all SSDs perform identically)
malachi to stevej1976
1 Aug 171#8
Slow but still alot more quicker than a normal spinning HDD.
GreatBallsofFire to stevej1976
1 Aug 171#9
Appreciably faster read speeds than any SATA3 SSD but nothing special with regard to write speeds and can suffer badly if you are writing large amounts of data at high speed (it has a 7gig cache IIRC). Basically, its a budget NVMe drive and isn't going to match an expensive premium product but is still generally better than SATA.
Given that it is price comparable with a good SATA SSD of similar capacity, if your motherboard/OS can support this then it's the better option for a boot drive.
stevej1976
31 Jul 17#3
Tbh I only run a handful of games regularly, elite dangerous Iracing and doom.
maddogb
1 Aug 17#4
no one got any off the last post they were all cancelled..more amazon click bait.
mrpipster
1 Aug 17#5
Personally; would rather get the Samsung SM961 Polaris 128GB for double the speed - although half the size, but only using it for Windows.
yant to mrpipster
1 Aug 17#10
Wouldn't that mean that all you applications would be on a slow HDD then? Meaning windows would be fast but loading any app or games would be slow.
So really it depends on your usage pattern and what you want to speed up.
Agharta
1 Aug 171#6
For games buy on price but maybe avoid the very low end drives unless they are a bargain.
jackvdbuk
1 Aug 171#7
When will a deal on a 512gb or 500 come around :disappointed:
EndlessWaves
1 Aug 17#11
Games aren't very disk intensive so you won't see any performance difference whichever SSD you buy. I'd focus on stuff like track record and support and probably rate Intel higher than Samsung in that area.
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Previous thread over a week old, seems Amazon have more stock for those who wanted one.
11 comments
(for most people all SSDs perform identically)
Given that it is price comparable with a good SATA SSD of similar capacity, if your motherboard/OS can support this then it's the better option for a boot drive.
So really it depends on your usage pattern and what you want to speed up.