M.2 NVMe SSD

[lewd_]

I'm looking for an ssd that is decently priced and is also fast. When I look up ssd's I see the Samsung 970 Evo and don't necessarily know if it's read and write speeds are fast.

[Stormseeker9]

Intel 660p

970 evo

XPG sx8200

[Dedayog]

2 minutes ago, lewd_ said:

I'm looking for an ssd that is decently priced and is also fast. When I look up ssd's I see the Samsung 970 Evo and don't necessarily know if it's read and write speeds are fast.

You need to do more research then.  Or at least compare SSDs with each other.

 

The 970 EVO is not decently priced tho.

[lewd_]

Just now, jstudrawa said:

You need to do more research then.  Or at least compare SSDs with each other.

 

The 970 EVO is not decently priced tho.

Yeah I know the 970 EVO has better alternatives. I follow your advice and do more research.

 

[jj9987]

ADATA XPG SX8200, as mentioned above.

[Constantin]

8 minutes ago, lewd_ said:

I'm looking for an ssd that is decently priced and is also fast. When I look up ssd's I see the Samsung 970 Evo and don't necessarily know if it's read and write speeds are fast.

They are!

[Dedayog]

Just now, lewd_ said:

Yeah I know the 970 EVO has better alternatives. I follow your advice and do more research.

 

At the very least, compare speeds across a dozen or more SSD's from both SATA and PCIe.  Plus realize that NVMe drives aren't necessarily faster in real word tasks for most people.

[lewd_]

4 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

At the very least, compare speeds across a dozen or more SSD's from both SATA and PCIe.  Plus realize that NVMe drives aren't necessarily faster in real word tasks for most people.

Are read and write speeds the only thing that determines if an ssd is better or are there other factors?

Edited August 20, 2019 by lewd_
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[Mira Yurizaki]

I'm going to throw in Crucial's MX500 as an alternative. It's plenty fast and decently priced. Reliability has also been pretty good on my end, so there's that. It comes in both 2.5" and M.2 formfactors.

 

3 minutes ago, lewd_ said:

Are read and write speeds the only thing that determines if an ssd is better or are there other factors?

IOPS, which if you can't get that number directly can be inferred by the 4K random performance. Unless you're transferring large amounts of data all the time to equally fast if not faster memory locations, NVMe's bandwidth is practically useless.

 

For most use-cases, it's the SSD's quickness at getting data than how fast it is at transferring it that improves performance.

[lewd_]

2 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

I'm going to throw in Crucial's MX500 as an alternative. It's plenty fast and decently priced. Reliability has also been pretty good on my end, so there's that. It comes in both 2.5" and M.2 formfactors.

 

IOPS, which if you can't get that number directly can be inferred by the 4K random performance. Unless you're transferring large amounts of data all the time to equally fast if not faster memory locations, NVMe's bandwidth is practically useless.

 

For most use-cases, it's the SSD's quickness at getting data than how fast it is at transferring it that improves performance.

Ahh, that makes more sense. Thank you for the explanation.

[Jurrunio]

970 Evo is fast but not decently priced for what it offers. Others like say, the SX8200 Pro does the same for less, or PCIe 4 ones are even faster but then more expensive.

[lewd_]

2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

970 Evo is fast but not decently priced for what it offers. Others like say, the SX8200 Pro does the same for less, or PCIe 4 ones are even faster but then more expensive.

Yeah I've seen a few PCIe 4 ssd's and they aren't what I'd call an option. Plus I'm not really going to be using it to it's fullest, so it would just be a waste.

[Mr.Humble]

combined capacity & performance / price, best to worst

 

Corsair MP510

ADATA XPG

Kingston KC2000

Intel 660p

 

 

[hello_there_123]

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