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Is it really a night and day difference on performance?

 

my PC is mostly used in playing DOTA 2 and rendering.

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Yes.

You'll be blown away by how fast your pc boots and programs on the SSD load.

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15 minutes ago, potatobuilder said:

Is it really a night and day difference on performance?

imagine 1 sec of delay for every click in OS

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31 minutes ago, potatobuilder said:

 

Is it really a night and day difference on performance?

 

my PC is mostly used in playing DOTA 2 and rendering.

I've been replacing Haswell+Mechanical HDD laptops at work with Coffee Lake systems, and I tell you, staff are so happy to not have to wait 15 minutes for their computer to boot when it boots in 5 seconds. NVMe's 1-4GB/sec puts mechanical drives to shame.

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2 minutes ago, Kisai said:

NVMe's 1-4GB/sec puts mechanical drives to shame.

does Sata SSD and NVMe have the same performance? 

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2 minutes ago, potatobuilder said:

does Sata SSD and NVMe have the same performance? 

SATA tops out at 550MB/sec, NVMe the PCIe 1x or 4x is the only limit, so as drives get larger, they'll get faster. SATA SSD's is 550, because they are SATA drives and speak AHCI, where as NVMe drives are directly attached to the PCIe bus.

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Yes! Especially loading OS and programs, multiple of them at the same time. Like booting to OS with dozen or more startup programs it will be snappy while making your PC usable from the second you see your desktop. 

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3 minutes ago, Doobeedoo said:

Yes! Especially loading OS and programs, multiple of them at the same time. Like booting to OS with dozen or more startup programs it will be snappy while making your PC usable from the second you see your desktop. 

will the SAMSUNG 860 EVO 250GB do that?

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1 minute ago, potatobuilder said:

will the SAMSUNG 860 EVO 250GB do that?

any SSD will be faster than HDD, if you feel that it looks like your programs are faster in responses and transfering files. It's what the SSD is suppose to do, be faster than its HDD

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2 minutes ago, potatobuilder said:

will the SAMSUNG 860 EVO 250GB do that?

Yeah, it's a good choice. 

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