Is 960 Evo 500GB worth it over 850 EVO 500GB? [description of situation in thread]

[xsimplyjosh]

Currently have a 830 evo 250GB ssd paired with a 2TB hdd wd blue caviar in my system

 

im starting to run the limits in space capacity of my ssd with about 30-40gb left, mainly installed programs, OS onto it and frequently accessed files [Photos 12mpixel in 14bit raw format ard 30mb each but i remove them after completion]

 

what i normally do: gaming, photo and video editing, browsing, a bit of simulation for my engineering projects

 

having said that the eye catching thing was the 960 evo 500gb which connects directly to the mobo socket w/o any form of cables, which gives it its very extreme R/W speeds over sata

 

my only question is will it be sorta worth it for my uses above?.. or should i just spring for an 850 evo 500gb and save a few.

 

initial setup [if it matters]:

intel i7 7700k

strix z270H mobo

RM750x PSU

1080ti strix oc

16GB 3GHz ram duo chnl

830 evo 250GB ssd

2TB HDD WD Blue Caviar

[rn8686]

If you edit alot of video at high resolution, it may be, but otherwise just for light editing and general use a Sata drive is fine. 

[Guest]

can't tell if one item is worth it over another one without knowing its price

[xsimplyjosh]

2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

can't tell if one item is worth it over another one without knowing its price

960 evo 500GB is around 300-330aud.

850 Evo 500GB is around 220-240aud.

price is somewhat similar in terms of ratio between differing countries [with aud getting the high end of the stick]

[Jurrunio]

960 evo is not worth buying over the 850 evo. The thing with NVMe drive is that they are over-hyped. Normal usage just cant push SATA to its bandwidth limit, which results in next to no difference in performance between the two other than in benchmarks.

[AntonDVries]

You should go with the 850, 960 is overkill. Especially with the things you're going to do

[Guest]

Considering your problem is space and not speed, I'd go w/ the 850.

SATA is still plenty fast.

 

They make M.2 850s that operate over SATA. Not sure if they're the same price as their 2.5 brethren, but if they are (or close enough) go for that. Just make sure the ones on your board support SATA. Not all of them do for some reason.

 

I've saturated NVMe (960s) on a bunch of occasions, and it's nice to have the headroom when I need it, but if you're not constantly coming up on deadlines, save the cash.

[LienusLateTips]

If you edit a lot of video at 4K or 8K, probably

Otherwise no

[Seanzky]

What others are saying is right. I personally own both but only got the 960 EVO 500GB because it's on sale at Micro Center, which I doubt is in Australia. At $189 and my 850 EVO 500GB running out of room, I figured I'd try it. In terms of performance, you have to be doing heavy duty read/write to get your money's worth.