SAMSUNG 990 PRO SSD NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen4, M.2 2280 Internal Solid State Hard Drive

[Eagler]

Amazon has great prices on these now...

https://a.co/d/9t2BLxu

Eagler

[Getback]

Now you tell me! It was the concept of the SSD that really motivated me to build a new computer (No cables to manage).

[AKIron]

If you're building new you wanna go with Gen 5, at least for the system disk. Can be twice as fast as the fastest Gen 4.

[AKIron]

And it looks like Gen 6 will be twice as fast as Gen 5. For almost 45 years I've tried to keep up with technology. Sometimes on the bleeding edge, sometimes not. A lot more not these days. I remember the days, before qemm or himem, when anything over 640k in the IBM clones wasn't good for much more than a ram drive. Back then programs were small enough to be moved to and run from a ram drive. With non-volatile memory getting faster and faster it may seem like we're using ram drives once again.

[Bizman]

If you're building new you wanna go with Gen 5, at least for the system disk. Can be twice as fast as the fastest Gen 4.
--And it looks like Gen 6 will be twice as fast as Gen 5

Can you tell the difference in everyday use? Or only in tests?

Rather, should you pay more if the difference is like between crazy fast and lightning fast?

Back in the day when hard drives started to supersede floppies, they had to slow down the animation that showed the saving progress. People just couldn't believe that the file that would have taken half a minute to be saved on a floppy was written on the HDD in a second.

[AKIron]

We just built my brother a new machine using a Crucial T705 and yes, I could tell the difference.

Of course there were other factors, faster DRAM, faster CPU, maybe faster chipset on MB.

[Spikes]

I'm sure for the average user there will be next to zero discernable difference between these generations of SSDs. Certainly not a justification for double the cost.

[AKIron]

Obviously without a dramatic change in technology we approach diminishing returns. You can't know the difference between a fast gen 4 and fast gen 5 NVME without seeing it firsthand or at least know the numbers like boot time, app start time, pauses due to disk access etc....

When something that takes 60 seconds to start is reduced to 30 seconds you notice.

[Bizman]

When something that takes 60 seconds to start is reduced to 30 seconds you notice.

Tru dat.

[Eagler]

If you're building new you wanna go with Gen 5, at least for the system disk. Can be twice as fast as the fastest Gen 4.

Thanks for this information..didn't realize the difference between gen 4 and 5..

Had to upgrade the Samsung gen 4 1 tb ssd in my desktop so I grabbed a gen 5 2tb to replace it..stats show twice the read and write speeds..

Samsung SSD 9100 PRO 2TB, PCIe 5.0x4 M.2 2280, Seq. Read Speeds Up to 14,800MB/s, Best for AI Computing, Gaming, and Heavy Duty Workstation

Thanks ✌🏻

Eagler

[Meatwad]

Is that noticeable on boot times or game loading, or just seen through file transfers within the computer

[Bizman]

Depends on what you'd consider as noticeable. I've got a SATA SSD as my boot drive and it also runs one Steam related game. My system boots up in about 30 seconds, fast enough for me to start it during a phone call for being able to walk a customer through some procedure step by step, being able to see the same view.

Said game is a slow loader for all my friends. On a HDD the actual game had often started before I could see anything, on this SSD I can hear other players running in the waiting area for a few seconds before getting there myself but I'll still have plenty of time to see the map and discuss the strategy before the actual game launches.

So although there may be a noticeable difference in boot or game loading times, we're talking about mere seconds. I'm old and slow so there's no need for me to snip those seconds off. Your mileage may vary.

[Eagler]

Is that noticeable on boot times or game loading, or just seen through file transfers within the computer

Imagine it would be both..

I grabbed the faster drive so I could call it an "upgrade" lol

Cloning was simple with an app called the Samsung Magician..free from their site

https://semiconductor.samsung.com/us/consumer-storage/magician/

Eagler