replacing my boot drive

[Shogunluffy_1982]

I just ordered a Samsung 970 Evo 250 Gb M.2 ssd to replace my sandisk 120 Gb ssd as a boot drive what are the obvious benefits besides loading times?

[Dedayog]

Negligible benefits outside of being a bit faster.  

[Shogunluffy_1982]

ok then just more faster storage added in the end fastest my motherboard can accept as I only got a z170 chipset so no optane.

[Dedayog]

Yeah, I would have gone SATA M.2 for more storage for the money, but it's a good boot drive either way.

[Shogunluffy_1982]

As ive check on those seems bigger NVMe drives are able to sustain more reads and writes..

[Constantin]

8 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

Negligible benefits outside of being a bit faster.

"Negligible" ???

Did you really write that???

NVMe drives are at least 7x faster than normal SSD sata 3

 

[Shogunluffy_1982]

I see you got one of those drives is it that mutch faster whats youre experience with it man.

[Dedayog]

Just now, Constantin said:

"Negligible" ???

Did you really write that???

NVMe drives are at least 7x faster than normal SSD sata 3

 

Yeah< I really did.  As a boot drive, he won't notice that 7x speed benefit.  Why you would quote a tech spec like that as opposed to real world performance I don't understand.

 

NVMe has a very real use case for it's speed benefits.  Booting Windows is not it.

[Shogunluffy_1982]

I get that for sure but must be better that what ive got right now?

[Constantin]

1 minute ago, jstudrawa said:

Yeah< I really did.  As a boot drive, he won't notice that 7x speed benefit.  Why you would quote a tech spec like that as opposed to real world performance I don't understand.

 

NVMe has a very real use case for it's speed benefits.  Booting Windows is not it.

Maybe for you it doesn't and maybe for others it really does, those are personal preferences!

The fact is that it is, i say again, at least 7x faster

[Shogunluffy_1982]

Time will tell for me can't wait to test this out for the price can't complain at 119.00 ca..

[r2724r16]

8 minutes ago, Constantin said:

NVMe drives are at least 7x faster than normal SSD sata 3

False: https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Samsung-970-Pro-NVMe-PCIe-M2-1TB-vs-Samsung-860-Evo-250GB/m497261vs3949

 

Please don't go around spreading misinformation.

 

For the OP: It's faster, but you won't notice a huge difference in boot times, but you will if you're using your SSD as a scratch disk or cache.

[Shogunluffy_1982]

here what I got vs the other  

https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Samsung-970-Evo-NVMe-PCIe-M2-250GB-vs-Samsung-860-Evo-250GB/m494033vs3949

[Shogunluffy_1982]

got it working don't know the actual real difference between nvme and what I used before seems to work out good benchmark at 3500mb read 1500mb write.

 

[seagate_surfer]

On 1/28/2019 at 7:52 AM, Geography said:

False: https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Samsung-970-Pro-NVMe-PCIe-M2-1TB-vs-Samsung-860-Evo-250GB/m497261vs3949

 

Please don't go around spreading misinformation.

 

For the OP: It's faster, but you won't notice a huge difference in boot times, but you will if you're using your SSD as a scratch disk or cache.

He may be right you know... Theoretically, the fundamentals for SATA 3 say that they can reach about 600 MB/s and for PCIe Gen 3 x4 lanes the theoretical rates are 3.94 GB/s or 3940 MB/s. As you now 1GB = 1000 MB (let's talk in round numbers please), so 3940 is almost 7 times 600 (actually 6 and a half and a little bit more), of course, those are theoretical numbers but the theory is there and it cannot be ignored:

• PCI Express - Wikipedia
• Serial ATA - Wikipedia

[r2724r16]

2 minutes ago, seagate_surfer said:

He may be right you know... Theoretically, the fundamentals for SATA 3 say that they can reach about 600 MB/s and for PCIe Gen 3 x4 lanes the theoretical rates are 3.94 GB/s or 3940 MB/s. As you now 1GB = 1000 MB (let's talk in round numbers please), so 3940 is almost 7 times 600 (actually 6 and a half and a little bit more), of course, those are theoretical numbers but the theory is there and it cannot be ignored:

• PCI Express - Wikipedia
• Serial ATA - Wikipedia

We weren't talking about the interfaces. We were talking about the actual drive the OP has, and the one he wanted to get.

 

The 970 PRO is not 7x faster than the SanDisk SATA SSD the OP is using.

 

Read the full thread next time. Thanks!

[seagate_surfer]

On 1/28/2019 at 7:27 AM, Brass_01 said:

I just ordered a Samsung 970 Evo 250 Gb M.2 ssd to replace my sandisk 120 Gb ssd as a boot drive what are the obvious benefits besides loading times?

It has more lanes than the other SATA M.2 siblings, which allow these units to transfer heavier files faster than SATA SSDs, small files are transferred at approximately the same rates. So you will really take advantage of an NVMe PCIe device when you are doing heavy editing with videos or transferring large portions of data, but for most consumers, it does not offer that much benefits.

[Shogunluffy_1982]

yeah the experience was not bad but everyday user scenario seems same as the sandisk ssd  not as better or just looks like it.

[Shogunluffy_1982]

what I should do with the sandisk ssd now good to use as fast storage or  some say use as a cache scratch drive any real use to that..