%41 off, 2tb Crucial PCI 4.0, (up to)5000mb reads

[Bender Blues]

This Crucial 2tb is a whopping %41 off today!

 

Reads and writes decent over the 980 EVO? 

Should I snatch this up for a primary ssd?

 

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Plus-PCIe-NAND-5000MB/dp/B0B25ML2FH/

 

[UnknownWalls]

Why not?

[Bender Blues]

4 minutes ago, UnknownWallsTwitch said:

Why not?

It was a toss up with the 980 pro. I see that 980 has 7gb read speeds.

 

Is there a noticeable difference in load times with a 2gb p/s difference? I think it would be noticeable, not sure. 

[Shimejii]

4 minutes ago, Bender Blues said:

It was a toss up with the 980 pro. I see that 980 has 7gb read speeds.

 

Is there a noticeable difference in load times with a 2gb p/s difference? I think it would be noticeable, not sure. 

You probably wont even notice it from a Sata SSD for pretty much most things. Unless you do a lot of large transfers and such.

 

OS May be a bit more snappy after a few years on it but even then thats circumstantial at best. 

 

Direct Storage still has yet to show anything decent, 1 game in 3 years.

[Dedayog]

39 minutes ago, Bender Blues said:

It was a toss up with the 980 pro. I see that 980 has 7gb read speeds.

 

Is there a noticeable difference in load times with a 2gb p/s difference? I think it would be noticeable, not sure. 

There is no difference.  Unless you understand why you would need a PRO drive.

 

 

Youtube search SATA vs NVMe drives, explains @Shimejii comment above.

 

Nice drive though, decent price for 2TB.

[Alejoforero]

Its a QLC dramless drive. The price is decent but honestly everything is coming down, so I would say its just the new equilibrium price.

[NobleGamer]

Prices of most SSDs have been declining since end of last year - So "sales" across most brands is no surprise.

 

It doesn't seem like a bad drive performance wise, though you could do better for around the same price.

 

I agree with all other comments that you aren't likely to notice a difference between a new drive and your current one - Assuming you don't do stuff that requires many random reads/writes (code compiling?) or creating/moving large files all the time (saving videos/streams?).

 

I trust PCPP's OS agnostic testing, which shows that the WD SN570 and SN770 outperform it, especially on sequential writes: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/4KRYcf,rr8bt6,yGZ9TW/https://pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/mKBG3C,4KRYcf,rr8bt6,yGZ9TW/

 

Here's a full list of 2 GB SSDs in your price range: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/benchmarks/?benchmark=rand50#D=1&A=2000000000000,2048000000000&X=0,12000