NVMe SSD VS SATA/AHCI SSD

[ZeroPlasm]

Hey guys, recently there has been a lot of these new NVMe SSDs popping up and sure the reviews out there really make these SSDs look like they wreck SATA SSDs in synthetic benchmarks and stuff.

I was wondering, how much difference does an NVMe SSD compare to a regular SATA/AHCI one in the real world.

 

Like... Hibernation resume times, app launch times, file save times etc. I cant seem to find any sort of review on this.

 

 

[ShadowCaptain]

9 minutes ago, ZeroPlasm said:

Like... Hibernation resume times, app launch times, file save times etc. I cant seem to find any sort of review on this.

It does make a difference to all of those

but its not like when going from a HDD to SSD, its just a faster SSD what for MOST tasks people wont notice the speeds, but power users will notice the performance increase definitely 

[mikat]

not enough diffrence to justify the price tag, that's for sure

[Kirky2k15]

3 minutes ago, mikat said:

not enough diffrence to justify the price tag, that's for sure

They aren't that bad unless your looking at the WAY over priced Intel 750, look at Samsung 950 pro or SM951 Much Much cheaper and very similar performance

[Moonzy]

for average user, most of them cant really tell the difference between sata 3 ssd and m.2, pcie, or nvme SSD

 

for people that are accessing those drives often to transfer files, yes

but you must have another drive as fast as the drive you're reading from to even take advantage anyway

[SaladFingers]

35 minutes ago, ZeroPlasm said:

Hey guys, recently there has been a lot of these new NVMe SSDs popping up and sure the reviews out there really make these SSDs look like they wreck SATA SSDs in synthetic benchmarks and stuff.

I was wondering, how much difference does an NVMe SSD compare to a regular SATA/AHCI one in the real world.

 

Like... Hibernation resume times, app launch times, file save times etc. I cant seem to find any sort of review on this.

 

 

 

It does make a difference, though not a big difference. Everyday tasks like that don't stress the disk at 100% for a longer period of time anyway. I mostly feel a considerable difference after Windows boot and start loading everything (yes, I have loads of stuff running at startup). App launch times are so fast already with a regular SSD that I can't notice. If a program took 5 seconds to fully load and now it takes 3, that's hardly something I can notice personally. One other thing that became really fast is restoring a backup to the Nvme drive. I had a problem recently so I recovered from my nightly backup (70gb) and it was done in under 4 minutes, I was shocked. And mind you, I was copying from a slower drive so it could be faster.

[SydneySideSteveSomewheres]

You would notice the boot and app load times more if you owned a machine with NVMe SSD and for example a laptop with a traditional HHD.

 

@ZeroPlasm would you use the hibernation feature if the machine cold boots in 45 seconds though?

[ZeroPlasm]

2 minutes ago, SydneySideSteveSomewheres said:

You would notice the boot and app load times more if you owned a machine with NVMe SSD and for example a laptop with a traditional HHD.

 

@ZeroPlasm would you use the hibernation feature if the machine cold boots in 45 seconds though?

My laptop goes into hibernation after being put to sleep for 3 hours, so its just to save some juice I guess. I want all my programs to still stay as it is whenever I turn it back on

[SaladFingers]

2 minutes ago, ZeroPlasm said:

My laptop goes into hibernation after being put to sleep for 3 hours, so its just to save some juice I guess. I want all my programs to still stay as it is whenever I turn it back on

Better use Fastboot instead of Hibernation on a  laptop

[ZeroPlasm]

Its definitely faster but I lose all my open applications