Worth going from SATA to NVME?

[lu4414]

Hi everyone, what's up?

 

So I have a 2018 Nitro 5 (I5 8300h, 1050) which I am not planning to replace anytime soon, it shipped with an 1TB HDD and I immediately added a SATA 240GB M.2 WD Green (DRAM less)  SSD. It's working okay but I can't have all my data on it.

 

My question would be: Will I notice a difference in day to day performance upgrading to a Adata P5 (DRAM&NVME)? Or will only be a matter of the numbers in sintetic loads? The P5 is a suggestion, I saw some good prices on it, but I am open to other suggestions too

 

I use my computer for light gaming, coding and some office tasks.

[Carbonado]

1 minute ago, lu4414 said:

Hi everyone, what's up?

 

So I have a 2018 Nitro 5 (I5 8300h, 1050) which I am not planning to replace anytime soon, it shipped with an 1TB HDD and I immediately added a SATA 240GB M.2 WD Green (DRAM less)  SSD. It's working okay but I can't have all my data on it.

 

My question would be: Will I notice a difference in day to day performance upgrading to a Adata P5 (DRAM&NVME)? Or will only be a matter of the numbers in sintetic loads?

 

I use my computer for light gaming, coding and some office tasks.

Maybe you will boot faster, and have better loading times for games by like, seconds at max. So yeah, it's upto you, if you want to be into the game and boot into windows faster, then get an nvme ssd (with dram cache mind you) and boot off it.

[HwanaAlpaca]

1 minute ago, lu4414 said:

Hi everyone, what's up?

 

So I have a 2018 Nitro 5 (I5 8300h, 1050) which I am not planning to replace anytime soon, it shipped with an 1TB HDD and I immediately added a SATA 240GB M.2 WD Green (DRAM less)  SSD. It's working okay but I can't have all my data on it.

 

My question would be: Will I notice a difference in day to day performance upgrading to a Adata P5 (DRAM&NVME)? Or will only be a matter of the numbers in sintetic loads? The P5 is a suggestion, I saw some good prices on it, but I am open to other suggestions too

 

I use my computer for light gaming, coding and some office tasks.

yes really, plus microsoft is adding direct storage and its NVMe only

also samsung have really good SSDs like samsung 970 evo and 980 pro

[BondiBlue]

If you were upgrading from a higher end SATA SSD (like a Crucial MX500 or Samsung 860/870 EVO) then it wouldn't be worth it, but you've got a lower end drive. I'd go ahead and get a nice NVMe drive. 

[SorryBella]

19 minutes ago, lu4414 said:

My question would be: Will I notice a difference in day to day performance upgrading to a Adata P5 (DRAM&NVME)?

To boot to windows? No, the only difference youll see is around 300ms so unless youre on Fallout's Jet, then you wont notice it.

 

 

[Dedayog]

The only reason I would get a new drive is to ADD storage.  If you can, boot off the SATA and then use a larger drive (doesn't matter if it's SATA or NVMe) for storage.  Then you'll be snappy all around.

 

Like you said, you need space.

 

Speeds won't be noticeable.  

[Chris Pratt]

You won't notice the difference between SATA and NVMe in what you do now, for the most part. However, once DirectStorage starts making its way into games, you'll definitely benefit from NVMe in those games. Regardless, there's very little point in going for SATA. It's not any cheaper, so if you have available M.2 slots, just get NVMe. There's zero reason not to.

[lu4414]

Thanks for everyone who replied! It's interesting to see, I was expecting more controversy around the DRAM Vs DRAMless. I will be on the lookout at Black Friday for deals on SSDs then

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