An 500gb Nvme ssd or 1tb sata ssd

[Stormerzgeek Deraj]

I am building an PC as of below and some guys recommended me to go with a ssd instead of intel optane. So I already have a sandisk 960gb extreme ssd but i want to use it in a laptop instead.

So apart from that I live in a place where pricing are crazy and nowhere comparable to US pricing (INDIA).

So here I have two options

• Crucial MX300 1tb (ITS FAST)
• Samsung 960 Evo 512gb (ITS faster)

So I have these two option which are of the same price, so I need some opinion to decide between both. BTW I have a 40tb server and i'm using a 4tb black for this computers storage. And has anbody used optane and seen performance difference.

[stefanDB]

if you are building a gaming PC, then I would go for the sata one as the extra speed won't make a huge difference but the extra storage will.

[Stormerzgeek Deraj]

Just now, stefanDB said:

if you are building a gaming PC, then I would go for the sata one as the extra speed won't make a huge difference but the extra storage will.

But i already have 4tb in the pc and a 40tb server also. So you are saying speed is not so effective in gaming pc ?

[RAM555789]

6 minutes ago, Stormerzgeek Deraj said:

But i already have 4tb in the pc and a 40tb server also. So you are saying speed is not so effective in gaming pc ?

The SSD can affect the loading speeds of the games with almost no fps impact, so its more of you can load up a bunch of your favorite games onto that SSD, and put games you play less, and archival kinds of files onto the HDD, and server.

[Stormerzgeek Deraj]

1 minute ago, RAM555789 said:

The SSD can affect the loading speeds of the games with almost no fps impact, so its more of you can load up a bunch of your favorite games onto that SSD, and put games you play less, and archival kinds of files onto the HDD, and server.

Ok and after reading some other post I guess for only gaming and not video creation work there is no benefit from nvme drives i guess. This is from a website:-

 

In real world use, on a performance scale of 1-100
If we assume a standard HDD at "50"
A SATA III SSD might be a 90.
An NVME drive might be a 93.
 

[DocSwag]

5 minutes ago, Stormerzgeek Deraj said:

Ok and after reading some other post I guess for only gaming and not video creation work there is no benefit from nvme drives i guess. This is from a website:-

 

In real world use, on a performance scale of 1-100
If we assume a standard HDD at "50"
A SATA III SSD might be a 90.
An NVME drive might be a 93.
 

Eh, I don't like this scale since there's a lot of variation within each category.

 

But yes, you get the idea. NVMe drives aren't really worth it for general consumers, as compared to SATA drives they don't boot up or launch apps much faster.

[Stormerzgeek Deraj]

1 minute ago, DocSwag said:

Eh, I don't like this scale since there's a lot of variation within each category.

 

But yes, you get the idea. NVMe drives aren't really worth it for general consumers, as compared to SATA drives they don't boot up or launch apps much faster.

Ok i get but i have a confusion between two products which are the crucial mx300 sata 2.5 inch vs the m.2 ssd. What is the difference between these except the connector difference . BTW does maximus x hero support sata m.2 ssd?

[DocSwag]

1 minute ago, Stormerzgeek Deraj said:

Ok i get but i have a confusion between two products which are the crucial mx300 sata 2.5 inch vs the m.2 ssd. What is the difference between these except the connector difference . BTW does maximus x hero support sata m.2 ssd?

MX300 is SATA but 960 evo is NVMe. M.2 only refers to the form factor.

 

M.2 has pins for a pcie link and a sata link. The MX300 uses the sata portion, and the 960 evo uses the pcie portion (and then uses the NVMe protocol to communicate on that pcie link).

 

One of the M.2 connectors on the X Hero is SATA and PCIe, but the other one is only PCIe. Make sure to use the right one.

[Stormerzgeek Deraj]

On 10/16/2017 at 10:25 PM, DocSwag said:

MX300 is SATA but 960 evo is NVMe. M.2 only refers to the form factor.

 

M.2 has pins for a pcie link and a sata link. The MX300 uses the sata portion, and the 960 evo uses the pcie portion (and then uses the NVMe protocol to communicate on that pcie link).

 

One of the M.2 connectors on the X Hero is SATA and PCIe, but the other one is only PCIe. Make sure to use the right one.

Ok great