Help in picking an SSD

[HadesLV]

I am intending very soon to buy a new SSD to use as my boot drive. I am basically looking for the fastest SSD in the 240-256gb range that goes for anything between 120-180 euros. You can check www.1a.lv to see my local pricing. Right now I am leaning towards the CORSAIR FORCE SERIES MP500 240GB, but if someone can recommend something else, please do. Thank you in advance!

[Skiiwee29]

The best would be the Samsung 850 evo. 

 

http://www.1a.lv/datoru_komponentes_tikla_produkti/atmina_hdd_ssd/cietie_diski_ssd/samsung_ssd_850_evo_250gb_sata_iii_mz75e250beu

 

You can actually get the 500gb version that falls into your price point

 

http://www.1a.lv/datoru_komponentes_tikla_produkti/atmina_hdd_ssd/cietie_diski_ssd/samsung_ssd_850_evo_500gb_sata_iii_mz75e500beu

[HadesLV]

10 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

The best would be the Samsung 850 evo. 

 

http://www.1a.lv/datoru_komponentes_tikla_produkti/atmina_hdd_ssd/cietie_diski_ssd/samsung_ssd_850_evo_250gb_sata_iii_mz75e250beu

 

You can actually get the 500gb version that falls into your price point

 

http://www.1a.lv/datoru_komponentes_tikla_produkti/atmina_hdd_ssd/cietie_diski_ssd/samsung_ssd_850_evo_500gb_sata_iii_mz75e500beu

Hmm those are SATA drives, though. Would I not see a big difference in performance between those and PCIe/NVME drives?

[Skiiwee29]

2 minutes ago, HadesLV said:

Hmm those are SATA drives, though. Would I not see a big difference in performance between those and PCIe/NVME drives?

you never specified form factor....

[Skiiwee29]

for boot times, most of the slowness comes from the BIOS loading up.. not from the drive with an SSD. The real benefit with an NVME SSD over Sata will be with programs that are loaded on it

 

[BlueCrazii]

Just get one from a good brand "Intel,kinston,corsair,samsung" 

 

That suits your needs

[HadesLV]

18 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

you never specified form factor....

Yeah, my bad I thought it was clear from the 'fastest' but I realize that was too ambigous. And yeah I meant performance with programs obviously I am not getting an ssd just to load windows. Sorry for not being clear about things.

 

[Skiiwee29]

This is one of the fastest NVMe drives out there

 

http://www.1a.lv/datoru_komponentes_tikla_produkti/atmina_hdd_ssd/cietie_diski_ssd/patriot_hellfire_240gb_m2_sataiii_ph240gpm280ssdr

 

I have this one personally for my games but its outside your budget price set.

 

http://www.1a.lv/datoru_komponentes_tikla_produkti/atmina_hdd_ssd/cietie_diski_ssd/intel_ssd_600p_series_512gb

[Maxinfamily]

2 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

This is one of the fastest NVMe drives out there

 

http://www.1a.lv/datoru_komponentes_tikla_produkti/atmina_hdd_ssd/cietie_diski_ssd/patriot_hellfire_240gb_m2_sataiii_ph240gpm280ssdr

 

I have this one personally for my games but its outside your budget price set.

 

http://www.1a.lv/datoru_komponentes_tikla_produkti/atmina_hdd_ssd/cietie_diski_ssd/intel_ssd_600p_series_512gb

Is there a real and meaningful difference between a fast sata drive and a nvme/m.2 drive? In terms of loading times in games and programs.

[Skiiwee29]

9 minutes ago, Maxinfamily said:

Is there a real and meaningful difference between a fast sata drive and a nvme/m.2 drive? In terms of loading times in games and programs.

For program load times yes, Sata is saturated at 550ish Mbps bandwidth where as NVMe is much much faster. Some of the older m.2 drives are actually just Sata, so they do the same as a traditional connection. Now this does not take into consideration any program that will need to reach out to the internet for connectivity or anything like that. This will only affect programs 100% internal to the machine/drive itself. 

 

Drive	IOPS (4kB R/W)	Max Sequential Read / Write Rate
Spinning disk	~100	~ 200 MB/Sec
SATA SSD	99,000 Read 18,000 Write	520 MB/Sec Read 475 MB/Sec Write
NVMe SSD	430,000 Read   50,000 Write	2600 MB/Sec Read 1000 MB/sec write

 Table 1: IOPS and max throughput yield enormous improvements.

[Maxinfamily]

15 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

For program load times yes, Sata is saturated at 550ish Mbps bandwidth where as NVMe is much much faster. Some of the older m.2 drives are actually just Sata, so they do the same as a traditional connection. Now this does not take into consideration any program that will need to reach out to the internet for connectivity or anything like that. This will only affect programs 100% internal to the machine/drive itself. 

 

Drive	IOPS (4kB R/W)	Max Sequential Read / Write Rate
Spinning disk	~100	~ 200 MB/Sec
SATA SSD	99,000 Read 18,000 Write	520 MB/Sec Read 475 MB/Sec Write
NVMe SSD	430,000 Read   50,000 Write	2600 MB/Sec Read 1000 MB/sec write

 Table 1: IOPS and max throughput yield enormous improvements.

Thanks!

[JoostinOnline]

There is very little real world performance difference between SATA and NVMe.  Unless you're working with huge files (not Windows or programs), what matters is how fast it reads tiny files.  There is usually about a 30% increase in 4k read speeds for double the price.

 

So save yourself some money and get a SATA one.