Ssd Pci vs sata for typical consumer loads

[krumme]

Will you subjectively notice a difference from eg a 1TB samsung 860evo sata vs 970evo pci?

20% Office. 75% Gaming. 5% Light video work.

 

[BSim500]

Will you subjectively notice a difference from eg a 1TB samsung 860evo sata vs 970evo pci?

20% Office. 75% Gaming. 5% Light video work.

Possibly in video work (writing massive video files). Probably not in office / most games:-
https://techreport.com/review/33950/samsung-860-evo-1-tb-ssd-reviewed/5

 

[UsandThem]

Not really, but they've dropped so much in price, you can pick up a nice 500GB drive like the WD Black or 970 EVO on sale for $140ish.

Things like installing Windows (and its updates), virus scans, programs installs, loading my music library are very quick. Most games will load a little quicker as well, but it's not like a SSD vs. HDD in that regard. But like BSim500 mentioned, the biggest performance gain are people whose work involves reading and writing large files.

Here's a little quick and dirty comparison on what to expect with gaming load times:

 

[fluffmonster]

PCI makes sleep seamless, if you let your box do that.

 

[DooKey]

I agree with @UsandThem. The price difference isn't so large and you should buy a 970 over the 860 just for the video work you do. JMHO.

 

[cfenton]

The only difference I notice between my 960 Evo and my MX300 is when I'm doing large file transfers to very fast external storage. If I were buying new, I'd get the NVME drive, but I don't think it's worth it to upgrade from the same capacity SATA drive.

 

[krumme]

Thanx guys

 

[Ratman6161]

Will you subjectively notice a difference from eg a 1TB samsung 860evo sata vs 970evo pci?

20% Office. 75% Gaming. 5% Light video work.

No. You will not notice a significant difference. I went from an 850 EVO to a 960 EVO and in general usage you only notice the difference in benchmarks.

 

[aigomorla]

Depends totally on what your gaming.
This has been shown a lot...
If the game has load screens, then yes you will notice a few seconds, in the load times thanks to the much faster reads.

But you have to remember a couple of seconds is significant, when were dealing with mostly milisecond in that area.

So if the game is map loading heavy, or you get that game balance loading, where it holds you in a cage while everyone else loads, and its important for you to troll other players during this time, then a NVMe is considerably faster in gaming.

If your playing a RPG like Witcher or Skyrim and you use map travel a lot, then again, its significant in gaming.
If your playing DOTA, then no you probably wont miss it.

 

[ajc9988]

I will be contrary to others here. Unless you have large sequential file transfers, the cost of a 1tb sata3 ssd being roughly the cost of an NVMe drive of half that storage size, I would go with the larger size over smaller, yet faster at sequential workloads. Most consumer workloads are not sequential. So unless you care for the 5%light editing, I would go with an MX500 or 860 Evo.

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[jkauff]

One use case where the speed increase is notable is when you're reading from an NVMe drive and writing to another SSD. I see this in MakeMKV, when Blu-ray source files are on the fast drive. I can create an MKV file of the main movie on my old Samsung 840 Pro in less than 30 seconds.

 

[OTG]

Will you subjectively notice a difference from eg a 1TB samsung 860evo sata vs 970evo pci?

20% Office. 75% Gaming. 5% Light video work.

I recently added a 1-tb Intel 660p for my games.

My OS is staying on the 500 Gb850 Evo.

The only difference I’ve noticed is that Doom loads faster than it used to. There’s no ‘hitch’, just smooth 0-100% loaded.
It’s nice, but the improvement is pretty small.