is the samsung 990 pro a good choice?

podkall · April 15

2 minutes ago, Tan3l6 said:

The price difference is not 10-fold though. At maximum 2-fold perhaps, comparing to really low end though.

still you're spending ~20€ more for indistinguishable increase in regular tasks including gaming

porina · April 15

We do get to factors outside performance. I've had suspected data loss scenarios with low end branded SSDs: WD Green and Kingston A400. SMART reported no problems, but if you try to do a surface read it often gets stuck in a similar way to a HD with bad sectors. Thus even if I need to keep pricing low, I'd aim for the mid range.

Also for gaming, as we move to DirectStorage I do feel we are past buying SATA new now. It doesn't really save you cost. I still use some 1TB SATA SSDs in my systems because I bought them a long time ago and they still work, but I don't need to replace them.

The main time you might notice a difference between a low/mid SSD to a high end one is when applying patches. Maybe initial installs. It does feel like it takes much longer on lower IOPS models, but I've never measured it. When used for OS installs, high IOPS also seems to make Windows Update run faster. However most of the time in games, you're loading and the differences there are minor.

Eigenvektor · April 15

5 hours ago, MiszS said:

The same gaming perfomance yeah, the only difference is that the game may load a few seconds slower

From my experience PCIe 3 vs 4 makes virtually zero difference in games. I have both in my system and notice no difference based on where a game is installed.

Load time seems usually not limited by IO, but for example decompression speed on the CPU.