Worth getting Samsung 960 Evo SSD?

[sonyzz]

So the prices of ssd's come down a little bit and it got me thinking my mobo Asus Maximus 8 hero has m.2 slot is it worth getting Samsung 960 Evo 500gb pcie x4 nvme drive, will i feel any significant difference like boost in speed or else? (current price on amazon: 500gb - 188£/260$, 250gb - 99£/136$) or should i get newer gen sata SSD like Samsung 860 Evo or just good old 850 Evo series, the 500gb model price 109£/150$ and newer 860 Evo 500gb model price 124£/170$ i currently have 850 Evo 250gb for which i paid 70£/96$ back in 2016 april // im looking to that ssd like a dog to a baked sausage LOL but still thinking is it worth it? will it overheat?will i feel the speed of it in real life?

[TheGlenlivet]

1 minute ago, sonyzz said:

So the prices of ssd's come down a little bit and it got me thinking my mobo Asus Maximus 8 hero has m.2 slot is it worth getting Samsung 960 Evo 500gb pcie x4 nvme drive, will i feel any significant difference like boost in speed or else? (current price on amazon: 500gb - 188£/260$, 250gb - 99£/136$) or should i get newer gen sata SSD like Samsung 860 Evo or just good old 850 Evo series, the 500gb model price 109£/150$ and newer 860 Evo 500gb model price 124£/170$ i currently have 850 Evo 250gb for which i paid 70£/96$ back in 2016 april

No.

You won't notice the difference in day to day use.  Only large files moved from drive to drive like videos for editing etc.

The one you have now is plenty fast.

[Mayclore]

10 minutes ago, TheGlenlivet said:

No.

You won't notice the difference in day to day use.  Only large files moved from drive to drive like videos for editing etc.

The one you have now is plenty fast.

This is absolutely correct. The biggest noticeable difference comes from moving to an SSD from a hard drive, not from SATA SSD to NVMe. I'd take the money you'd spend on a 500GB NVMe drive and buy a fat 1 TB SATA SSD instead. That's the path I chose.

[dizmo]

You'll see faster boot times and load times in games. However, it's not much of an improvement. Depending on the game maybe 15 seconds (there's the odd game that's better), and I think boot times are maybe about the same. Only you can really answer if that's worth it or not.

 

I plan to get a small NVME drive for my next build; 250GB (maybe 500GB) as a Windows drive. Then a 1TB (maybe 2TB depending on pricing) SSD for games and such.

[Lenovo1984]

The increase in speed is slight for most uses. I wouldn't get one if all I used it for was my OS and a few programs/games. SATA SSDs are still more than enough (as long as they're good) for most people. 

[sonyzz]

Thanks guys for answers i probably get bigger sata ssd like 850 evo 1tb is still pricy tho