SSD vs hardrive?

[Mullens-Servers]

Hey guys this is my first post on this fourms. my pc is a few years old now specs below.

I7-2600

8GB DDR3

GTX 770

2x120GB SSD

are my CrystalDiskMark Results good? can you guys post yours here aswell so i can compare> ?

 

 

 

[StackUnderflow]

Here's mine, it's not great but it's alright. A single lane of PCIe v3 is 1 gigabyte/s. A NVMe SSD takes 4 lanes, so even on sequential read, we still got lots of room to go up.

 

Oh, keep in mind that this is in a VM, so it's not raw disk performance since there's virtio drivers and the (non-bare metal, linux KVM based) hypervisor layer.

 

[Mullens-Servers]

2 minutes ago, StackUnderflow said:

Here's mine, it's not great but it's alright. A single lane of PCIe v3 is 1 gigabyte/s. A NVMe SSD takes 4 lanes, so even on sequential read, we still got lots of room to go up.

 

Oh, keep in mind that this is in a VM, so it's not raw disk performance since there's virtio drivers and the hypervisor layer.

 

Nice how much does one of these NVMe SSD's set you back? My Rigs quite old now and im getting my tax back in a few weeks time for abit of a upgrade

[StackUnderflow]

3 minutes ago, Mullens-Servers said:

Nice how much does one of these NVMe SSD's set you back? My Rigs quite old now and im getting my tax back in a few weeks time for abit of a upgrade

The rig the SSDs are in are also in a older Sandy bridge system. I got a PCIe 16x to 4x4x4x4x NVMe adapter (not all mobos support these) drives in that. I got WD disks because plex gold gave me 20% off, so $160 for 500GB. If you really want to go fast (although there's no reason to), get the Intel Optane P900D, which is $500 for 500GB.

 

But I wouldn't upgrade from what you already got unless you're running out of space. Unless you're virtualizing alot of machines with alot of IOPS or doing things live that needs to saturate a 10Gb connection, there's very little benefit to go for a modern NVMe SSD.

[Mullens-Servers]

3 minutes ago, StackUnderflow said:

The rig the SSDs are in are also in a older Sandy bridge system. I got a PCIe 16x to 4x4x4x4x NVMe adapter (not all mobos support these) drives in that. I got WD disks because plex gold gave me 20% off, so $160 for 500GB. If you really want to go fast (although there's no reason to), get the Intel Optane P900D, which is $500 for 500GB.

 

But I wouldn't upgrade from what you already got unless you're running out of space. Unless you're virtualizing alot of machines with alot of IOPS or doing things live that needs to saturate a 10Gb connection, there's very little benefit to go for a modern NVMe SSD.

Would something like this be worth it? Just for my steam library
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/41389/intel-760p-series-m-2-nvme-ssd-1tb

[StackUnderflow]

1 minute ago, Mullens-Servers said:

Would something like this be worth it? Just for my steam library
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/41389/intel-760p-series-m-2-nvme-ssd-1tb

There are so many cheaper drives on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=1+tb+nvme+ssd

 

I'd probably settle for a 2.5in SATA3 SSD which is half the price, but if you're loaded, go for it.

[SZ1357]

15 hours ago, Mullens-Servers said:

Would something like this be worth it? Just for my steam library
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/41389/intel-760p-series-m-2-nvme-ssd-1tb

I mean for what you’re doing it’s really not needed, even a typical Samsung or crucial sata 3 ssd would serve you well at half the price. But if you want the best of the best, then I’m not stopping you