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Samsung isn't "that far" ahead of the competition. They've been behind. PCIe gen4 drives have been out for most if not of all 2020. The 980 Pro is faster than t

Samsung isn't "that far" ahead of the competition. They've been behind. PCIe gen4 drives have been out for most if not of all 2020. The 980 Pro is faster than the competition but the others will have drives this fast out soon too.

leetcrew 6y ago
any particular reason why you say that? I haven't looked into the gen4 drives, but looking at the anandtech storage bench, their gen3 drives are enjoying a comfortable lead over the competition. the 970 evo plus matches or exceeds the transfer rate of its competitors in most tests, and has significantly better performance consistency when the drive gets full. the only problem is that the additional performance is not always worth the additional price per GB.
- throwaway8941 6y ago
  >the additional performance is not always worth the additional price per GB There are factors besides performance. Samsung is not known for particularly high quality firmware (the 830 Evo performance fuck-up, multiple queued TRIM bugs, etc.), but after reading a disproportionate amount of horror stories of silent data corruption and data loss for most of their competition, I'd rather spend the extra bucks.
  - leetcrew 6y ago
    what I mean is, the typical consumer will probably never notice the performance difference between a 970 evo plus (or even 970 pro) versus any other middle-of-the-pack nvme drive. I personally went with the evo plus because I expect the drive to spend its life mostly full and I'm using it to compile c++ projects from. the extra $50 was worth the most consistent performance to me. as for reliability, this is hard to judge from anecdotes on the internet. you really need access to something like the backblaze data to start drawing conclusions. I had an oem samsung drive die in my xps 13 a week after the one year warranty expired. I have a WD hard drive that's still going strong after eight years. unless you have a lot of data, I think it's best to just back everything up, accept that you're rolling the dice, and hit a $/perf point that's acceptable to you.
- driverdan 6y ago
  I say that because this is their first gen4 drive and other manufacturers have had gen4 drives out for many months.

leetcrew 6y ago

any particular reason why you say that? I haven't looked into the gen4 drives, but looking at the anandtech storage bench, their gen3 drives are enjoying a comfortable lead over the competition. the 970 evo plus matches or exceeds the transfer rate of its competitors in most tests, and has significantly better performance consistency when the drive gets full. the only problem is that the additional performance is not always worth the additional price per GB.

throwaway8941 6y ago
>the additional performance is not always worth the additional price per GB There are factors besides performance. Samsung is not known for particularly high quality firmware (the 830 Evo performance fuck-up, multiple queued TRIM bugs, etc.), but after reading a disproportionate amount of horror stories of silent data corruption and data loss for most of their competition, I'd rather spend the extra bucks.
- leetcrew 6y ago
  what I mean is, the typical consumer will probably never notice the performance difference between a 970 evo plus (or even 970 pro) versus any other middle-of-the-pack nvme drive. I personally went with the evo plus because I expect the drive to spend its life mostly full and I'm using it to compile c++ projects from. the extra $50 was worth the most consistent performance to me. as for reliability, this is hard to judge from anecdotes on the internet. you really need access to something like the backblaze data to start drawing conclusions. I had an oem samsung drive die in my xps 13 a week after the one year warranty expired. I have a WD hard drive that's still going strong after eight years. unless you have a lot of data, I think it's best to just back everything up, accept that you're rolling the dice, and hit a $/perf point that's acceptable to you.
driverdan 6y ago
I say that because this is their first gen4 drive and other manufacturers have had gen4 drives out for many months.