Difference of SSD PCIe & SSD Sata?

[Amenadiel]

I'm planning to get a 1TB SSD bit I'm curious what's the difference between SSD PCIe  & SSD Sata? 
Are their speed just the same or the ssd pcie is faster or better performance? or there's no difference at all?

Just wanted to know the difference before buying one. Thanks!  

[MrMarriarty]

PCIe will be a faster better interface with the SSD but unless you need that its just a total waste of money it also uses a PCI Lane

[TheGlenlivet]

Agreed.  If you are only using this as a boot drive to store games and files on then the SATA SSD is perfectly capable.

The only way you would see the benefit of PCI storage is if you are moving LARGE SINGLE files around.  Like Disk images or movie files, and even then, the difference in speed may not be worth the very substantial price increase.

[johnjohns111]

24 minutes ago, Amenadiel said:

I'm planning to get a 1TB SSD bit I'm curious what's the difference between SSD PCIe  & SSD Sata? 
Are their speed just the same or the ssd pcie is faster or better performance? or there's no difference at all?

Just wanted to know the difference before buying one. Thanks!  

If you’re on a budget, go with SATA. As it was mentioned PCI is for huge files mostly. 

[JoostinOnline]

PCIe has a much higher bandwidth than SATA. However, that bandwidth may not be used. Think of pouring  a cup of water into a pipe that's 1 foot wide vs one that's 1 yard wide. The water won't go through any faster. That would be a small file. If you poured 50 gallons of water (a large file) through both pipes, the water will go through the big pipe much faster. 

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[adithyay328]

For a 1 TB SSD, pcie SSDs are much more expensive than SATA drives; at a lower capacity, the extra cost is minimal, so it would be stupid to go with the SATA drive. But, in this case, there's a significant difference. PCIe drives, like everyone else has said, is great for large file transfers. Video editing, for example, would be really fast with a PCIe SSD. However, for gaming, since the files transferred are minute, a PCIe SSD will only decrease load times, but not much. 

[pyrojoe34]

I would go with SATA due to the price. PCIe is much faster but unless you're using it for regularly for large file transfers for programs which cache a ton of data to the disk, you will likely not notice any difference outside of benchmarks. I upgraded my SATA 850 Pro to a NVME 960 Evo (not because I needed the speed but because I wanted a larger OS drive and figured the $20 difference for the size I got to be worth it since I can always pop it into a laptop in the future), and although the benchmarks are like 6x faster, I noticed no difference in game boot times, OS boot times, or any other use. Even in Premiere Pro (using the NVME drive for OS/program install/cache, SATA SSD for preview/render files, and HDD for media files) I noticed almost no difference compared to when I was using the SATA SSD (to be fair it was never a bottleneck anyway and the bitrate of the videos I work with is well within the capabilities of even a HDD).

[Amenadiel]

Thanks a lot everyone! Guess i'll just go with the SATA SSD