Recommend me an SSD please.

[IAEInferno]

I would want an SSD that's 1 TB or 500 GB has a long product life as well, doesn't need to be the fastest but I need it to be affordable, long lasting and around 1 TB or 500 GB.

[STRMfrmXMN]

4 minutes ago, IAEInferno said:

I would want an SSD that's 1 TB or 500 GB has a long product life as well, doesn't need to be the fastest but I need it to be affordable, long lasting and around 1 TB or 500 GB.

Always safe to get the Intel or Samsung drives. An 850 EVO should be fine for you.

[Guest]

Price range? 

 

The new Samsung M.2 NVMe PCIe 4x 950 Pro is a nice boot SSD for a main operating system 

[MegaDave91]

I suggest one with a long warranty. All SATA SSDs more or less cap out at ~550MB/s.

[ARikozuM]

Samsung 850 EVO, A-Data SP550, SanDisk X400/Z400, Crucial MX 200/MX300 (stay away from the BX due to poor controller), and if you're looking for M.2: Intel 600p, Samsung 950 EVO (PCIe), Crucial MX300.

[Enderman]

19 minutes ago, IAmLamp said:

Price range? 

 

The new Samsung M.2 NVMe PCIe 4x 950 Pro is a nice boot SSD for a main operating system 

Except the 950 pro is a waste of money for anyone buy content creators/data analysts...

It makes 0 difference to regular programs, OS, games, etc...

[Guest]

On 9/14/2016 at 8:46 PM, Enderman said:

Except the 950 pro is a waste of money for anyone buy content creators/data analysts...

It makes 0 difference to regular programs, OS, games, etc...

That's just flat out not true at all. 

 

It's not a waste of money. It's a smarter decision to buy over an Intel PCIe NVME SSD. And it's cheaper. 

 

Faster boot times as well for people like myself that want to boot into the OS faster. 

[Enderman]

4 minutes ago, IAmLamp said:

That's just flat out not true at all. 

 

It's not a waste of money. It's a smarter decision to buy over an Intel PCIe NVME SSD. And it's cheaper. 

 

Faster boot times as well for people like myself that want to boot into the OS faster. 

It does not make your OS more other programs faster because a regular sata SSD is not a bottleneck.

The only way you notice the faster speed is either file transfers, video editing, data analysis, and stuff like that.

 

So yeah, for most people it is a waste of money because the "faster boot times" are just placebo effect and you do you get any higher performance in games or regular programs.

Go ahead and test it yourself, open some random program like chrome or whatever, watch in task manager how it does not use anywhere near 500MBps transfer speeds.

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

It does not make your OS more other programs faster because a regular sata SSD is not a bottleneck.

The only way you notice the faster speed is either file transfers, video editing, data analysis, and stuff like that.

 

So yeah, for most people it is a waste of money because the "faster boot times" are just placebo effect and you do you get any higher performance in games or regular programs.

Go ahead and test it yourself, open some random program like chrome or whatever, watch in task manager how it does not use anywhere near 500MBps transfer speeds.

It doesn't have to use bandwidth, but the IOPS do help in certain cases especially deep-queue. Gaming? Not so much.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Enderman said:

It does not make your OS more other programs faster because a regular sata SSD is not a bottleneck.

The only way you notice the faster speed is either file transfers, video editing, data analysis, and stuff like that.

 

So yeah, for most people it is a waste of money because the "faster boot times" are just placebo effect and you do you get any higher performance in games or regular programs.

Go ahead and test it yourself, open some random program like chrome or whatever, watch in task manager how it does not use anywhere near 500MBps transfer speeds.

I take it you've seen the reviews where they test it improperly. Most reviews that I first saw were using an M.2 port with maximum speeds lower of what the drive was capable of reaching. 

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

It doesn't have to use bandwidth, but the IOPS do help in certain cases especially deep-queue. Gaming? Not so much.

Still doesn't change boot times or regular programs like people think.

 

 

 

It is obvious that storage is NOT a bottleneck.

2 minutes ago, IAmLamp said:

I take it you've seen the reviews where they test it improperly. Most reviews that I first saw were using an M.2 port with speeds lower of what the drive was capable of reaching. 

No, if that was true then it wouldn't get 2500+ MBps file transfer speeds.

File transfers are the only thing that benefit. (this includes transfers from disk to ram such as in video editing)

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Enderman said:

Still doesn't change boot times or regular programs like people think.

 

 

 

It is obvious that storage is NOT a bottleneck.

No, if that was true then it wouldn't get 2500+ MBps file transfer speeds.

File transfers are the only thing that benefit. (this includes transfers from disk to ram such as in video editing)

According to the graph, it beat the Intel PCIe NVMe SSD for boot time by 5 seconds, so I am right 8]

 

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[ARikozuM]

7 minutes ago, IAmLamp said:

According to the graph, it beat the Intel PCIe NVMe SSD for boot time by 5 seconds, so I am right 8]

 

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I love how it says "bare". Like everyone has zero programs at startup.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

I love how it says "bare". Like everyone has zero programs at startup.

That's actually a good point for real world testing to be more accurate....... Interesting......

[Enderman]

13 minutes ago, IAmLamp said:

According to the graph, it beat the Intel PCIe NVMe SSD for boot time by 5 seconds, so I am right 8]

 

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Yeah, I agree, the intel drives are reliable but their speeds are disappointing.

The 950 pro is much better than the intel 750.

[ARikozuM]

Any speed increase for boot times "bare" is a god-send once you factor in programs like Steam, Uplay, Origin, Anti-virus, etc. or higher programs like AviMark (veterinary software) or Autodesk.