Full SSD

[allex89]

Hello All,

 

I would like to make my current system fully SSD based 

I would buy within the month 2 SSD 1x 1TB for storage and 1x 500Gb as OS drive (SATA based not M.2)

 

Mainly I was looking mainly on the 850Evo (5YW) or SanDisk Extreme PRO (10YW)

 

Any opinions?

[Oshino Shinobu]

850 EVOs are definitely a good choice. 

[mrgooglegeek]

850 evo will be better

[DioOmicida]

Everyone's going to tell you to get the Evo.

[done12many2]

Evo, but I am definitely a little biased!

[allex89]

2 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

Evo, but I am definitely a little biased!

Why?

 

[dizmo]

Why not just get a 2TB EVO instead of 2 1TB?

 

Nevermind. I read that wrong.

[allex89]

1x 500gb 1x 1TB

[ImmyCakes]

Evo

[done12many2]

Just now, allex89 said:

Why?

 

I have a lot of them.  The computer I'm on has 5 Samsung SSDs and 2 Intel SSDs.  I prefer my Samsung drives.  I have Evo SSDs in other computers as well and they just work great.

[allex89]

9 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

I have a lot of them.  The computer I'm on has 5 Samsung SSDs and 2 Intel SSDs.  I prefer my Samsung drives.  I have Evo SSDs in other computers as well and they just work great.

Evo Vs Pro can you see any deference in real life?

 

[done12many2]

1 minute ago, allex89 said:

Evo Vs Pro can you see any deference in real life?

 

 

It depends on what you're doing.  When it comes to booting Windows, they are all pretty close, but the 950 Pro is a bit faster.  

 

I have four 850 Evos in a RAID 0 and when I transfer large video files to and from my 950 Pro and 850 Evo RAID, the Evos are definitely the weakest link and substantially slower even though there are 4 working together.  

 

If you are moving large files to and from a drive that can keep up, the 950 Pro is unbelievable.  Sustained reads of 2.5 GB/s and writes of 1.5 GB/s are easy as long as you keep some air circulating around the drive.  They do tend to get a little warm and throttle if you don't.

 

If you are editing video or similar workloads, the 950 Pro is a beast.  If not, save your money and go with the Evos as they are great drives too.

[Lurick]

Are these going to be SATA, M.2, NVME, PCIe drives? What board/processor do you have and are there any free PCIe slots? I think the 850 evo only comes in 2.5 SATA but just wanted to ask.

[allex89]

2 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

 

It depends on what you're doing.  When it comes to booting Windows, they are all pretty close, but the 950 Pro is a bit faster.  

 

I have four 850 Evos in a RAID 0 and when I transfer large video files to and from my 950 Pro and 850 Evo RAID, the Evos are definitely the weakest link and substantially slower even though there are 4 working together.  

 

If you are moving large files to and from a drive that can keep up, the 950 Pro is unbelievable.  Sustained reads of 2.5 GB/s and writes of 1.5 GB/s are easy as long as you keep some air circulating around the drive.  They do tend to get a little warm and throttle if you don't.

 

If you are editing video or similar workloads, the 950 Pro is a beast.  If not, save your money and go with the Evos as they are great drives too.

I don't have M.2 Slots so the 950 is out. Mainly I do some video editing, programming and gameing

[allex89]

1 minute ago, Lurick said:

Are these going to be SATA, M.2, NVME, PCIe drives? What board/processor do you have and are there any free PCIe slots? I think the 850 evo only comes in 2.5 SATA but just wanted to ask.

sata

[done12many2]

Just now, Lurick said:

Are these going to be SATA, M.2, NVME, PCIe drives? What board/processor do you have and are there any free PCIe slots? I think the 850 evo only comes in 2.5 SATA but just wanted to ask.

 

The 850 Evo comes in M.2 SATA (not PCIe) as well.  I have one in my 4790k build and it performs about the same as the Evo 2.5 SATA versions.

[done12many2]

2 minutes ago, allex89 said:

I don't have M.2 Slots so the 950 is out. Mainly I do some video editing, programming and gameing

 

You'll be fine with the Evo drives.

[done12many2]

1 minute ago, done12many2 said:

 

The 850 Evo comes in M.2 SATA (not PCIe) as well.  I have one in my 4790k build and it performs about the same as the Evo 2.5 SATA versions.

I learned this the hard way and by accident.  I originally bought the 850 Evo M.2 SATA for my x99 build as a second M.2 drive, but at the time I didn't know there was a difference between M.2 SATA and M.2 PCIe.  Complete rookie move!!!  Anyways, my x99 board was not compatible with M.2 SATA so I looked for a way to use it.  As luck would have it my z97 board supports M.2 SATA and the rest is history.  

 

I got it for $17 on eBay!  When it arrived it was dead, but I expected that for $17 and was already familiar with Samsung's warranty.  They will warranty their Pro and Evo drives for 5 years.  If you don't have a purchase receipt, they go by the date of manufacture.  They sent me a prepaid shipping label through email on a Monday and I had a brand new drive back by that Friday.  Total investment with warranty...  $17 for a brand new drive.  I got lucky on that one.  

[allex89]

1 minute ago, done12many2 said:

I learned this the hard way and by accident.  I originally bought the 850 Evo M.2 SATA for my x99 build as a second M.2 drive, but at the time I didn't know there was a difference between M.2 SATA and M.2 PCIe.  Complete rookie move!!!  Anyways, my x99 board was not compatible with M.2 SATA so I looked for a way to use it.  As luck would have it my z97 board supports M.2 SATA and the rest is history.  

 

I got it for $17 on eBay!  When it arrived it was dead, but I expected that for $17 and was already familiar with Samsung's warranty.  They will warranty their Pro and Evo drives for 5 years.  If you don't have a purchase receipt, they go by the date of manufacture.  They sent me a prepaid shipping label through email on a Monday and I had a brand new drive back by that Friday.  Total investment with warranty...  $17 for a brand new drive.  I got lucky on that one.  

I will by from Amazon. I personally have good experience with them

[done12many2]

2 minutes ago, allex89 said:

I will by from Amazon. I personally have good experience with them

 

Amazon is great and where I do a great deal of shopping.  I also like buying things I know I can get warrantied if they are at unbelievable prices.  I don't luck out all the time, but it happens enough to keep doing it.

[Captain_WD]

23 hours ago, allex89 said:

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Hey there

 

Good decision as this would both make your system much more responsive and perform better in general and rid you off some moving parts, some vibration problems and heat sources. 

 

One advice from me: I would use the larger SSD for the OS drive and partition it in two parts for two reasons:

- Larger drives generally perform better and tend to have a longer lifespan (write cycles) and a longer warranty.

 

- Some applications need to be installed on your OS partition and their projects and files may take up quite a lot of space. 

 

Feel free to ask if you happen to have any questions! 

 

Captain_WD.

[Dark]

I went with the 512GB 950Pro for OS (faster overall)

 

1TB 840 for games

1TB 840 for software

1TB 840 for user directory

1.92TB liteon enterprise for local backup

 

Everything gets crashplan backed up to a local R730xd and offsite to a mini-itx box with a single 5TB HDD.

 

Also, there is a sale right now on the ADATA 960GB SSD for $189.99 (newegg/ebay).

[allex89]

On 04/05/2016 at 6:57 PM, Dark said:

I went with the 512GB 950Pro for OS (faster overall)

 

1TB 840 for games

1TB 840 for software

1TB 840 for user directory

1.92TB liteon enterprise for local backup

 

Everything gets crashplan backed up to a local R730xd and offsite to a mini-itx box with a single 5TB HDD.

 

Also, there is a sale right now on the ADATA 960GB SSD for $189.99 (newegg/ebay).

850 evo is probably the best sata based SSD

[allex89]

On 04/05/2016 at 2:53 PM, Captain_WD said:

Hey there

 

Good decision as this would both make your system much more responsive and perform better in general and rid you off some moving parts, some vibration problems and heat sources. 

 

One advice from me: I would use the larger SSD for the OS drive and partition it in two parts for two reasons:

- Larger drives generally perform better and tend to have a longer lifespan (write cycles) and a longer warranty.

 

- Some applications need to be installed on your OS partition and their projects and files may take up quite a lot of space. 

 

Feel free to ask if you happen to have any questions! 

 

Captain_WD.

I will just put the steam directory on the 1TB ssd  and keep the 500GB ssd for OS 

[scottyseng]

Ah, I own the Sandisk Extreme Pro (and Extreme 2) and they've been solid for me. That being said, I would push you towards the 850 Evo. It's just a small bit slower than the Extreme Pro, but you really won't notice (like 10MB/s lower in sequential reads and writes). I've done four builds with the evos and they're really quick. Nothing compares to the Evo's bang for the buck.

 

I just went Sandisk because I wanted to be different. haha. That and Sandisk kind of earned my respect by making some of the hardest to kill memory cards ever for my camera.