intel 600p or samsung 850 evo for window and games??

[shooter2749]

title say it all and i also want to pair it with optane when it come out

[Zando_]

Don't know much about the Intel... But the 850 EVO drives are some of the most highly reviewed and recommended drives. From what everyone says, they appear to be the best all rounders.

[ARikozuM]

Don't use Optane if you're getting an SSD. I would go with the 600p for boot only. Open-world games will benefit from SSDs the most.

[Light-Yagami]

As a user of 850pro and 850evo (both 512gb) I can say I recommend the 850PRO more. Better response.

[shooter2749]

5 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Don't use Optane if you're getting an SSD. I would go with the 600p for boot only. Open-world games will benefit from SSDs the most.

im only going to have one ssd (500 gb ) for booot and games

[ARikozuM]

Just now, shooter2749 said:

im only going to have one ssd (500 gb ) for booot and games

Go with the 600p. Are you getting an HDD?

[shooter2749]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Go with the 600p. Are you getting an HDD?

no, only using 300gb of my hdd right now so 500 gb is eough for me

[Skiiwee29]

The intel 600p is an NVMe m.2 drive, so it will be significantly faster than the Samsung 850 evo/pro as they are Sata limited. 

[ARikozuM]

6 minutes ago, shooter2749 said:

no, only using 300gb of my hdd right now so 500 gb is eough for me

Go for it. Be aware that the 600p is slow with writes (still faster than most SATA SSDs) due to the SLC cache writing to the MLC/TLC for storage. 

[shooter2749]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Go for it. Be aware that the 600p is slow with writes (still faster than most SATA SSDs) due to the SLC cache writing to the MLC/TLC for storage. 

its better than sata ssd and ive used hdd all my life so im going to feel like unlimited power

[zMeul]

9 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Go for it. Be aware that the 600p is slow with writes (still faster than most SATA SSDs) due to the SLC cache writing to the MLC/TLC for storage. 

you should be careful what you wish for, 600p doesn't have write through and once that cache is filled .... the whole drive slows down to crawl speeds

I'd avoid Intel 600p - there's a good reason it's priced so low; @OP, get the biggest 850 EVO you can afford

 

[pyrojoe34]

I would say go with the 600p. It's cheaper (more GB/$), [usually] faster (NVME compared to the SATA of the 850Pro), and takes less space.

 

It is a hybrid drive (TLC with a 17GB SLC cache) which is where the reviews with inconsistent speeds come from, but even considering that it is faster in most situations than the 850Pro. That is unless you do a lot of tasks where you write tons of data sequentially, in which case the 850Pro would win.

 

As far as Optane is concerned, I can't see the PCIe version making much sense for someone with an NVME SSD (or even a SATA SSD). It seems like it would make much more sense for someone still using a HDD or someone without enough RAM. But then again it's hard to know without more real-world Optane tests. If you're talking about the DIMM version then it might have merit but it's hard to know. Do any of the current chipsets/CPUs even support DIMM Optane?

[jace88au]

I was tempted to start a new thread but realised this one hit the nail on the head.

 

I recently bought an Intel 6000p 1TB (same as the 600p series) to fill my third SSD m.2 SSD slot, and have an existing 250gb Samsung 850 Evo m.2 SSD (along with a 250gb MyDigitalSSD m.2 2242 SSD) in my Alienware 15R3 laptop. I'm debating whether it's worth the effort/hassle to migrate my 850 Evo to the new Intel 6000p as a boot drive in the laptop environment given it's NVMe so should be faster (except when the cache runs out). Thoughts?

 

Reasons against it are;

- lazy (as it'll take a while and my 850 is Bitlocker encrypted)

- have had issues in the past when trying to migrate between SSDs in terms of getting it to boot and then if it does, random Windows file access rights issues

- wondering if it'll actually improve performance

- also wondering if it'll adversely affect battery life as IIRC one review did point out the 600p was grossly power inefficient on idle vs 850 Evo

 

If I don't do it, the 6000p is really just my Steam/Origin drive.

 

(note: I also have a 7200rpm laptop hard drive for my OneDrive/documents/music/movies/etc)