I do like ssd but I am kinda disappointed by the low impact nvme ssd make on normal usage.
By that I mean the common gaming, office jobs and zipping tasks, audio edit and all common tasks we do these days.
I have a raid 0 setup with 4 samsung enterprise 480 Gb ssd doing each 530/410 Mb/s in general.
I do not really have a clue how old they are because they have been used in a enterprise server, but once in a while all drives get replaced in this critical servers.
So they had been wiped and offered to all employees, now I am sad that I did not buy another 20 of them
And guess what they beat the nvme ssd with ease especially with games and large files, theoretical the nvme should run circles around these old ssds but it is not able to.
I have to admit I play many games which are modded and there you see funny enough even bigger gains. Games like sins of a solar rebellion and skyrim se are the most heavy modded ones sporting several gigabytes of mods loading.
I did also a test with my 2 nvme 970 evo 2 Tb in raid o as well and to my surprise these modded games are still loading faster on the old drives.. Why this is so, I have no clue because I expected the opposite.
Now the major thing is these old enterprise ssd cost a fraction of the price of 1 nvme ssd second hand.
While many people talk about that they probably will not last long... well dream on my intel 60 Gb ssd are from 2012 and have been far paste the maximum numbers Intel wrote they can last.
They are still running in my Synology NAS as read/write cache and are super heavy used.
Guess what they are 99,9 % healthy for years now.
So we get so called very fast nvme ssd but in general they are not much faster, but with prices dropping rapidly there is kinda no reason to not buy them for 1 important reason.
They take so darn little space
By that I mean the common gaming, office jobs and zipping tasks, audio edit and all common tasks we do these days.
I have a raid 0 setup with 4 samsung enterprise 480 Gb ssd doing each 530/410 Mb/s in general.
I do not really have a clue how old they are because they have been used in a enterprise server, but once in a while all drives get replaced in this critical servers.
So they had been wiped and offered to all employees, now I am sad that I did not buy another 20 of them
And guess what they beat the nvme ssd with ease especially with games and large files, theoretical the nvme should run circles around these old ssds but it is not able to.
I have to admit I play many games which are modded and there you see funny enough even bigger gains. Games like sins of a solar rebellion and skyrim se are the most heavy modded ones sporting several gigabytes of mods loading.
I did also a test with my 2 nvme 970 evo 2 Tb in raid o as well and to my surprise these modded games are still loading faster on the old drives.. Why this is so, I have no clue because I expected the opposite.
Now the major thing is these old enterprise ssd cost a fraction of the price of 1 nvme ssd second hand.
While many people talk about that they probably will not last long... well dream on my intel 60 Gb ssd are from 2012 and have been far paste the maximum numbers Intel wrote they can last.
They are still running in my Synology NAS as read/write cache and are super heavy used.
Guess what they are 99,9 % healthy for years now
.So we get so called very fast nvme ssd but in general they are not much faster, but with prices dropping rapidly there is kinda no reason to not buy them for 1 important reason.
They take so darn little space
