Sata vs m.2 longevity

[Zzzzz69]

Hey guys, which one would last longer? Specifically talking about the Samsung 860 Evo sata and the 860 Evo m.2? Thank you in advance

 

Edit: Used for gaming only, mostly triple a games and os will also be stored. 

[Sakkura]

Longevity would be identical, there's no difference between the drives except for a different shape of the connector and the SSD itself.

[Lordclouds]

7 minutes ago, Zzzzz69 said:

Hey guys, which one would last longer? Specifically talking about the Samsung 860 Evo sata and the 860 Evo m.2? Thank you in advance

 

Edit: Used for gaming only, mostly triple a games and os will also be stored. 

They are both fine you shouldn't worry about it since they are built to last. If you had an hhd then you can deal with a SSD life span

[mariushm]

In theory the sata model would have a longer life because there's more space and the circuit board can be made bigger, the chips can be further apart so the heat from the controller would not radiate so much and heat up the flash memory chips.

In real world, whatever benefit would be extremely small and may not even be there, as the manufacturer could use the same circuit board layout for both models or could even simply include a M.2 drive inside the sata ssd case and use a sata to m.2 adapter if they wanted to.

M.2 connector contains both sata and pci-e contacts so that would be possible.

[Tabs]

As others have said, the longevity in terms of bytes written should be almost identical between the two, if they have the same type/capacity of NAND onboard.

 

It's worth remembering however that sata interface drives are limited by the interface at about 600MB/s maximum, but m.2 can reach (and sometimes exceed) 3GB/s. Even though they may be able to handle the same amount of total writes, you may find that the m.2 drive has a lower lifespan simply because you can write a lot more data to it faster.

 

For the same amount of writes over the same timeframe, you should notice no difference between the two. Check the manufacturers write endurance to be able to compare different drives.

[Zzzzz69]

Thank you everyone for replying. I thought that the sata ssd disk would be more vulnerable to longevity because of it actually spinning to much. But now I know, thank you very much. Highly appreciated!

[Tabs]

2 minutes ago, Zzzzz69 said:

Thank you everyone for replying. I thought that the sata ssd disk would be more vulnerable to longevity because of it actually spinning to much. But now I know, thank you very much. Highly appreciated!

 

There aren't any moving parts in a regular Sata SSD; it's just a different size/shape and is hooked up using standard SATA cables instead of being directly plugged into the motherboard like a memory module or GPU would.

 

Are you thinking about "solid state hard drives", which are just hard disks with a small solid state cache? Those I would stay away from, since they don't offer any real performance improvement compared to a standard hard drive, but it has more potential modes of failure. If the cache fails in one of those, but the disk part itself is fine, you still risk losing all your data.

[Sakkura]

1 hour ago, Tabs said:

As others have said, the longevity in terms of bytes written should be almost identical between the two, if they have the same type/capacity of NAND onboard.

 

It's worth remembering however that sata interface drives are limited by the interface at about 600MB/s maximum, but m.2 can reach (and sometimes exceed) 3GB/s. Even though they may be able to handle the same amount of total writes, you may find that the m.2 drive has a lower lifespan simply because you can write a lot more data to it faster.

 

For the same amount of writes over the same timeframe, you should notice no difference between the two. Check the manufacturers write endurance to be able to compare different drives.

M.2 SATA reaches exactly the same speeds as regular SATA. There is literally no speed difference, it is the same interface, only the shape of the connector is different.

[Zzzzz69]

8 hours ago, Tabs said:

 

There aren't any moving parts in a regular Sata SSD; it's just a different size/shape and is hooked up using standard SATA cables instead of being directly plugged into the motherboard like a memory module or GPU would.

 

Are you thinking about "solid state hard drives", which are just hard disks with a small solid state cache? Those I would stay away from, since they don't offer any real performance improvement compared to a standard hard drive, but it has more potential modes of failure. If the cache fails in one of those, but the disk part itself is fine, you still risk losing all your data.

Yes I thought that they have some kind of disk inside xd