960 Pro or Evo?

[shermantanker]

My current 256gb 940 Pro keeps getting backed up on me, and I'm at the point where I need to do a storage upgrade. I have a fancy new Asus X99 board and figured I would go for a M.2 NVME drive, but I can't figure out it was worth it for me to stick with a Pro series or downgrade to an EVO drive. I will be getting either a 512gb Pro or a 500GB/1TB Evo and will pair it with a new HDD for bulk data. I am pro user and use my system for some gaming and media creation in the form of modeling/rendering for local architects, and will be getting into some light Adobe Premier work related to that.

[bgibbz]

You wont notice any performance increase or reliability in the pro drives for a standard workload. The Evo should work fine, and be cheaper. 

[SeanAngelo]

3 minutes ago, shermantanker said:

My current 256gb 940 Pro keeps getting backed up on me, and I'm at the point where I need to do a storage upgrade. I have a fancy new Asus X99 board and figured I would go for a M.2 NVME drive, but I can't figure out it was worth it for me to stick with a Pro series or downgrade to an EVO drive. I will be getting either a 512gb Pro or a 500GB/1TB Evo and will pair it with a new HDD for bulk data. I am a prosumer, and do some gaming and freelance media creation in the form of 3d modeling and rendering for local architects. Thanks!

I'd go for the 1TB EVO. You're not gonna be doing intensive read and write tasks anyway so the speeds shouldn't matter that much.

[shermantanker]

9 minutes ago, SeanAngelo said:

I'd go for the 1TB EVO. You're not gonna be doing intensive read and write tasks anyway so the speeds shouldn't matter that much.

How big of a difference is the reliability between the two? I know the numbers have changed a lot since they moved off SATA, but I haven't kept up much.

[Gonio]

Doubt the reliability would be a issue for you in general. But the PRO is more reliable and also has more warranty.

 

For the performance I don't think your mentioned workloads justify the better performance and pricetag over the normal Evo. But if you somehow have big and long transfers from like 5-10 minutes of a single file often, the Pro has significant better steady state performance. But that does not seem to fit your mentioned workloads.

[shermantanker]

20 minutes ago, Gonio said:

Doubt the reliability would be a issue for you in general. But the PRO is more reliable and also has more warranty.

 

For the performance I don't think your mentioned workloads justify the better performance and pricetag over the normal Evo. But if you somehow have big and long transfers from like 5-10 minutes of a single file often, the Pro has significant better steady state performance. But that does not seem to fit your mentioned workloads.

Thanks! Looks like I'll go for the EVO then, and there are a few floating around Ebay for a good chunk cheaper then the $500 amazon wants for the little bugger.