Samsung 960 PRO M.2 1TB NVMe SSD review
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stevevnicks
anticupidon
stevevnicks
what confuse me I don't really know much or anything about how all the stuff really works so when I see big numbers and fastest I though that would translate in to real world gains for gaming as well, if i don't know it wont make any difference to my gaming experience and decide to go for it, then it would mean I would need to upgrade my motherboard as well then after spend another large sum of money (to me at least) and get no benefits for what I mainly use my PC for then I would of felt deceived.
not that I could blame anyone but myself although if you didn't know this 4k thing which I didn't then I would of wasted my money, well not totally because im sure my system performance would improve ? but not what/reason I bought it for, again for me this 4k thingy is the most important from a gamers point of view, thanks to this forum I have now learned this, which in turn saved me a lot of hassle, cash and disappointment.
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
stevevnicks
anticupidon
First of all, i thank you Hilbert for all you efforts and your dedication to this forum and your time.
I should formulated better my question.My fault was assuming that Plextor P8Me uses Nvme 1.0.
Sorry for the mistake, i know that you don't want to baby-feed us with tech info, you have already enough on your head.
Thank you.
stevevnicks
anticupidon
mohiuddin
@DrunkenDonkey ,
Thanks for your post.
yes 4k random reads are the main thing to look for, for us. All these years , i didnt realize. :P
DrunkenDonkey
stevevnicks
DrunkenDonkey
Happy to help 🙂
I actually found it the hard way - got a blazing fast ssd (thankfully, the company I work in purchased it, not me) and to my surprise it was no faster than my crappy old crucial. So I started researching on why and quickly found what is going on. You can find it in samsung's own whitepapers
Or to quote:
In that regard, I find highly disturbing that most of the SSD reviews actually either don't present such 4kRR/QD1 info or present mixed one (i.e. average of QD1/4/8/32) which gives you absolutely nothing or mix reads with writes as random transfers - again an useless mess.
HH - would love someone with access to lot of SSDs (*cough* you *cough*) to give a clear consumer grade comparison of the main ones in typical desktop/gaming (QD=1, 4k RR) scenario. I know some are faring better (not by far mind you, but still better) than others, so it will be great to have a nice base.
Also, if you feel like it you can include other "usage scenarios" too - movie processing type (QD3, sequentals play big role, write speed too), "database server" - (QD32, random read, random write), "file server" - (QD4-8, sequental reads), i.e. so instead of having a massive number of benchmarks which the average user simply looks as "I like this number, whatever that means", to have some definitive practical guide.
stereoman
Just bought myself an Intel 600p 512gb dirt cheap and while it can't compete with the sammy with serious workloads for gaming I think it should be fine, atm I have 2 games installed on my Samsung 850 pro raid setup but space has become a big issue and unfortunately I ran out of sata ports so an NVMe drive was the best solution and Intel had the cheapest drive,
glad I read this thread before making my purchase, saved myself from wasting money for speed that I won't need.
mohiuddin
DrunkenDonkey
jura11
DrunkenDonkey
I do own mx100, tho given to my sister to use now, I agree, they are great, but don't have hard evidence to compare against. MX300 are bad man, they got improved for benches while their real world performance is horrible compared to previous. Unless it was something that firmware update fixed along the line, they were pretty rough and making you think what was crucial thinking.
I remember back in the days when anand was doing his own ssd testing and got big argument with ocz who did exactly the same - made some ssd look better in benchmarks (namely higher sequental read and stuff) but worse in real usage. Eventually ocz cracked and released firmware update that fixed it. Now crucial doing the same, but there is no more someone with high profile to voice against, and I guess most customer buy by the bigger number so there's that 🙁
mohiuddin
Thanks guys. Really appreciate it. But Evo prices are going upwards on amazon. I have plan on buying an ssd (yeah never used an ssd yet!!!!) later, when they would get much more cheaper. May be 860evo? With 48layer 3d nand, I can expect the price to go down even more?? Say 90-100$ for 500+GB ssd 😛
rsouzadk
Awesome performance.
sykozis
Hey Boss, found this on page 9, last paragraph...