SSD, coding

[GenericDouchebag]

Greetings,

I currently own a 500GB 850 EVO SSD. I use it mainly for gaming and coding, however, I'd like to know if buying a 960 EVO would be overkill for any of the aforementioned.

[Enderman]

Yes you do not need NVME.

[Electronics Wizardy]

You probably won't notice a difference, or it will be small. Id personally not spend the money.

[GenericDouchebag]

6 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Yes you do not need NVME.

 

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You probably won't notice a difference, or it will be small. Id personally not spend the money.

Forgot to mention that I will soon start developing games and will start using animation/designing tools, as well. Not sure if I'll notice any difference in these. What do you guys think?

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, GenericDouchebag said:

 

Forgot to mention that I will soon start developing games and will start using animation/designing tools, as well. Not sure if I'll notice any difference in these. What do you guys think?

none of those are very disk intensive. Whats the rest of the system?

[Mira Yurizaki]

7 minutes ago, GenericDouchebag said:

Forgot to mention that I will soon start developing games and will start using animation/designing tools, as well. Not sure if I'll notice any difference in these. What do you guys think?

Depends on how much data gets shuffled around

 

However, I would suggest using an HDD for any real testing to make sure the game or whatnot doesn't take forever to load from an HDD for some reason.

[Enderman]

8 minutes ago, GenericDouchebag said:

 

Forgot to mention that I will soon start developing games and will start using animation/designing tools, as well. Not sure if I'll notice any difference in these. What do you guys think?

No, unless you're making a huge triple A game or something like that you won't notice a difference.

[GenericDouchebag]

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

none of those are very disk intensive. Whats the rest of the system?

CPU: Ryzen 7 1700x

GPU: RX 480 (I'll purchase a high end on summer, though)

RAM: Ballistix 3466MHz

HDD: Toshiba E300 3TB

SSD: 850 EVO 500GB

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, GenericDouchebag said:

CPU: Ryzen 7 1700x

GPU: RX 480 (I'll purchase a high end on summer, though)

RAM: Ballistix 3466MHz

HDD: Toshiba E300 3TB

SSD: 850 EVO 500GB

yea that looks fine, I wouldn't worry about nvme.

[kirashi]

2 minutes ago, GenericDouchebag said:

CPU: Ryzen 7 1700x

GPU: RX 480 (I'll purchase a high end on summer, though)

RAM: Ballistix 3466MHz

HDD: Toshiba E300 3TB

SSD: 850 EVO 500GB

Then it's not worth it, especially with the workload you're considering too. Unless you have a reason to need more IOPS, the current SSD you have will work just fine for your use-case. One thing I really wish that reviewers would do more often (LTT does do this most of the time, thankfully) is state whether or not users would see real-world performance benefits from products they review. Just because the benchmarks look impressive on paper doesn't mean users will actually see the benefits if they're not already maxing out their current hardware.

[GenericDouchebag]

18 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Depends on how much data gets shuffled around

 

However, I would suggest using an HDD for any real testing to make sure the game or whatnot doesn't take forever to load from an HDD for some reason.

 

17 minutes ago, Enderman said:

No, unless you're making a huge triple A game or something like that you won't notice a difference.

 

15 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

yea that looks fine, I wouldn't worry about nvme.

oh, ok. Anyway, thank you for your time, you were really helpful; have a good one, cheers!

 

14 minutes ago, kirashi said:

Then it's not worth it, especially with the workload you're considering too. Unless you have a reason to need more IOPS, the current SSD you have will work just fine for your use-case. One thing I really wish that reviewers would do more often (LTT does do this most of the time, thankfully) is state whether or not users would see real-world performance benefits from products they review. Just because the benchmarks look impressive on paper doesn't mean users will actually see the benefits if they're not already maxing out their current hardware.

yeah, I do agree. I noticed that the read/write digits on NVME SSDs were tremendously higher than those of a regular one and was wondering if there was a noticeable difference performance-wise in real-world or if it was just a marketing 'trick'.

[AskTJ]

Hi GenericDouchebag. With your current system specs, the only difference you will see is between a hard drive and solid state drive. Boot times will be quicker and general usage will be more snappier and responsive. In terms of an SSD and NVME, you most likely will not realise a huge difference, (within milliseconds). In terms of coding, I also code, having an NVME drive over an SSD won't matter. It really depends on your core count, thread count and clock speed. The higher, the better. The only parts that will impact your computer is the CPU and RAM, (maybe the GPU for any 3D processing). Your system, as is, is great for android developing, maybe even a bit over kill. But best of luck man ✌

[AskTJ]

13 hours ago, GenericDouchebag said:

 

 

yeah, I do agree. I noticed that the read/write digits on NVME SSDs were tremendously higher than those of a regular one and was wondering if there was a noticeable difference performance-wise in real-world or if it was just a marketing 'trick'.

Yeah. This is actually a marketing trick. They grab the best NVME drive they have, and grab a bunch of numbers. Whichever one was higher goes into the official bench marks. But with those benchmarks, it doesn't guarantee you those speeds. It's a guide of up to speeds. For example. Laptop batteries. They advertise their batteries as 14 hours non stop. When you use it, it might only be 4 hours. It's marketing bro, trying to lure the customers in.

[GenericDouchebag]

On 3/31/2018 at 1:22 PM, tj_420 said:

Hi GenericDouchebag. With your current system specs, the only difference you will see is between a hard drive and solid state drive. Boot times will be quicker and general usage will be more snappier and responsive. In terms of an SSD and NVME, you most likely will not realise a huge difference, (within milliseconds). In terms of coding, I also code, having an NVME drive over an SSD won't matter. It really depends on your core count, thread count and clock speed. The higher, the better. The only parts that will impact your computer is the CPU and RAM, (maybe the GPU for any 3D processing). Your system, as is, is great for android developing, maybe even a bit over kill. But best of luck man ✌

 

On 3/31/2018 at 1:26 PM, tj_420 said:

Yeah. This is actually a marketing trick. They grab the best NVME drive they have, and grab a bunch of numbers. Whichever one was higher goes into the official bench marks. But with those benchmarks, it doesn't guarantee you those speeds. It's a guide of up to speeds. For example. Laptop batteries. They advertise their batteries as 14 hours non stop. When you use it, it might only be 4 hours. It's marketing bro, trying to lure the customers in.

Thanks a lot for the input mate and apologies for the delayed response. Your reply was truly helpful; have a good one!