NVME, worth waiting for?

[The_Cat_Guy]

Hey Guys, i wannt to buy a new multy purpuse workstation/gaming rig, the preview of the Nvme drives we saw made me think. I love SSD, i would anyway put a RAID 0 array on my PC but if i wait till november will Nvme prices go down? and will it worth? the intel PCI-E 400GB ssd costs well over $600

[manikyath]

do you need your drive to be that fast?

 

dont forget most people out there are still fine with just a regular hard drive.

 

SSDs arent a thing thats necessary, they're a premium item.

[Pool]

Obviously it's worth waiting, as of now there no real competitors. We'll need to wait for about 1 year to see more nvme SSDs on the market and see the price drop.

[asquirrel]

Hey Guys, i wannt to buy a new multy purpuse workstation/gaming rig, the preview of the Nvme drives we saw made me think. I love SSD, i would anyway put a RAID 0 array on my PC but if i wait till november will Nvme prices go down? and will it worth? the intel PCI-E 400GB ssd costs well over $600

For desktop workloads? No. NVMe, currently, only shows any (meaningful) benefit at queue depths above 32. That means whatever you are doing is asking for data fast enough to stack up 32 pending I/Os against an already fast piece of storage. Outside of something like an OS backup you'll be hard pressed to hit that sort of situation, even then, you'd only hit it if the device holding your backup was as fast as your SSD. As for NVMe drives that haven't been released yet...no idea.

 

I would, however, say waiting a few more months (September-ish?) for Intel's Skylake to come out would probably be a good idea.

[Jarsky]

NVMe would be great...if I was running a very heavy database server or doing some absolutely insane on-the-fly rendering, but nothing you run will really use those sort of IOPS. Not much benefit for a desktop past M.2 which is currently much wider supported.

[wpirobotbuilder]

Not going to be necessary for a while. There won't be lots of support on motherboards for a while either.

It's worth waiting, because SATA is going to be around for a long time for backwards compatibility.

[unijab]

I like the idea of two of the 750 series drives attached directly to a LSI 9300-8i in software raid 1... 

[vanman69]

No. For the vast majority of users, AHCI-based SATA drives will be fast enough for some time. It would be awesome to have, but it's so expensive that if you want an SSD, it's really not worth waiting for NVMe.