SX8200 Pro vs SN750 vs WD BLUE/860 EVO

[quandour]

I am using a ADATA SU650 and it's a pretty crappy SSD (no DRAM). I thought about having an upgrade since there are some sales around. I found 2+1 options:

 

SX8200 Pro and SN750, latter being the cheaper option (about %5). Would SX8200 Pro worth the difference?

 

Also WD BLUE/860 EVO (same price) is another option which is much cheaper than both but is SATA ofc. But I use my SSD for booting Windows and some games. I sometimes do some video and photo editing but only for fun. I added this option because maybe I wouldn't need NVMe at all.

 

What do you guys think? Which  would be the best for my use case?

 

SX8200 Pro: $95

SN750: $90

WD BLUE/860 EVO: $65

I'm not in NA btw so prices are not very standart here.

[Mateyyy]

If NVMe fits your budget, then I'd go for it. 

 

Both the SX8200 Pro and SN750 are solid drives - they're pretty much on par, other than fact that the SX8200 Pro pulls slightly less power, though if you're going to have a heatspreader on it and/or have decent case airflow, it's not like it'll matter anyway.

I'd get the SN750, since it's cheaper.

[quandour]

8 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

If NVMe fits your budget, then I'd go for it. 

 

Both the SX8200 Pro and SN750 are solid drives - they're pretty much on par, other than fact that the SX8200 Pro pulls slightly less power, though if you're going to have a heatspreader on it and/or have decent case airflow, it's not like it'll matter anyway.

I'd get the SN750, since it's cheaper.

I don't have any heatspreaders, my mobo is a crappy B450. I updated the post with prices btw, do you think NVMe would really make a difference?

[Mateyyy]

2 minutes ago, quandour said:

I don't have any heatspreaders, my mobo is a crappy B450. I updated the post with prices btw, do you think NVMe would really make a difference?

Hm, that's actually quite a significant price difference between the 860 EVO and the NVMe drives.

At the minute, you're most likely not going to notice a difference between a good SATA and a good NVMe drive. Game developers though will likely start taking better advantage of the speeds of NVMe drives, since the next-gen consoles ship with such drives.

 

Whether that's worth the extra $25-30 is up to you.

[quandour]

2 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

Hm, that's actually quite a significant price difference between the 860 EVO and the NVMe drives.

At the minute, you're most likely not going to notice a difference between a good SATA and a good NVMe drive. Game developers though will likely start taking better advantage of the speeds of NVMe drives, since the next-gen consoles ship with such drives.

 

Whether that's worth the extra $25-30 is up to you.

Yeah that's my biggest concern. Since new consoles have SSDs now, maybe difference will become significant. But also I'm not living in a rich country as well and $30 is worth about 1/3 of my monthly income (I'm a student). Thank you for your response.