NVME vs SATA SSD

[olesien]

Hello everybody!
So I have recently decided to buy a new 500GB ssd, because my old 128GB ssd is filling up pretty quickly.
While buying, however, I found out that the M.2 are not like twice the price as before.
1x Samsung 960 EVO 500GB costs 1700kr (about 200 dollars)
The M.2 version of this one, with 3000mb read spead and half the write speed, costs about 2400kr (260 dollars)
So I am wondering, is it worth the extra cost?
Thanks,
Linus

[Oshino Shinobu]

Kind of depends on what capacity you could get for the price of the NVMe drive and what you're going to be doing. NVMe excels at sequential read and writes, meaning transferring large files is very fast. For everyday use and random read/writes, there're not much/any better than a regular AHCI SSD so don't offer much in terms of boot and everyday improvements. If large transfers are infrequent, or you're not transferring to a drive that can keep up with the NVMe SSD, there's not too much point in spending more on it. 

 

 

[olesien]

okay, well guess I rarely do bigger file transfers. But I was just thinking that it is more.. like future proof. Is that true?

[Sakkura]

37 minutes ago, olesien said:

1x Samsung 960 EVO 500GB costs 1700kr (about 200 dollars)
The M.2 version of this one, with 3000mb read spead and half the write speed, costs about 2400kr (260 dollars)

What are you talking about, the 960 Evo only exists as M.2. There is no non-M.2 version of this SSD.

[olesien]

Yeah I meant that one

[genexis_x]

The 850 EVO is enough. There's no reason to get NVMe SSD unless you have a lot of money to spend.

[olesien]

Well I surely don't

[Sakkura]

Which kroner are you talking about, by the way? Exchange rate looks like Swedish kroner?

 

Should be possible to get a decent SATA SSD, either in 2.5" or M.2 form, for around 1500 Swedish kroner (SEK). The fast PCIe-based M.2 SSDs, like the Samsung 960 Evo, cost considerably more (over 2000 SEK).

[olesien]

Okay, you check here for the cheapest ones. 
Btw I am talking about SEK