Does quality matter for ssd.

[Aero4]

And if so is it noticeable in day to day use like for example gaming or using premiere.

[Quickstrike]

6 minutes ago, Aero4 said:

And if so is it noticeable in day to day use like for example gaming or using premiere.

Long term, a better quality SSD will degrade at a reduced speed compared to a cheap one.

[Radium_Angel]

7 minutes ago, Aero4 said:

And if so is it noticeable in day to day use like for example gaming or using premiere.

If you have backups of the data on the SSD, then no it doesn't really.

 

As far as raw speed/performance goes, yes, it can matter, depending on how big your files are and how new your system is. But whether you will notice said issues only you will know.

[RONOTHAN##]

As long as you're not getting the absolute cheapest SSD from a no-name manufacturer and the drive has a DRAM cache, you won't notice much of a difference. Even side by side, I have a very hard time determining the difference between my system with an old Skull Canyon SSD (quality at the time, but still about 5 years old) and my system with a 970 Evo. As long as you aren't doing huge amounts of file transfers, you won't notice a difference. Premier IIRC uses an SSD to just get lots of small files at random, which any drive will be able to do fine, and the majority of game loading times aren't a whole lot better on SSDs no matter what.

[GhostRoadieBL]

yes but only if you are side by side or have experience with other SSDs or have specific workloads which benefit from faster SSDs

 

This is typically due to the SSD cache and topology (QLC, SLC, MLC) of the chips. 

Cache size will assist in small files moving very very quickly and large folders of small files which get repeated moved (ie photographer editing huge batches of photos and exporting them to the SSD) Games also load slightly faster on drives with a cache but it's in the 1-2 seconds at most. 

Topology also plays a role when the drive starts to fill up and has to start re-arranging files to keep them in good sections of the chips. SLC (single level cells) tend to be in the highest "quality" SSDs for enterprise where any loss of data is unacceptable.

 

day to day if you are playing games, surfing the internet, office tasks etc there is little to no difference. This is also true for NVME vs Sata SSDs. 

day to day for photo editors, video editors, programmers, 3d artists etc yes there will be a noticeable difference in file load times, export times, program "snappiness" which is more true for NVME vs Sata but also quality with Cache and SLC or MLC will also make a lessor but noticeable difference if you have used both good (Samsung Pro, Corsair 400) vs bad (KingDian) ssds