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The thing to remember is that most people's workloads do not tend to improve much from a slow but decent SSD to a fast SSD. Workloads just aren't often large a
by gameswithgo 6y ago
The thing to remember is that most people's workloads do not tend to improve much from a slow but decent SSD to a fast SSD. Workloads just aren't often large and sequential enough. You can find lots of benchmarks of actual things on youtube/google, and things like boot times, game/app load times etc barely change.
For people who do need fast, large sequential operations, I'm sure it is amazing though.
- loeg 6y agoThere's still a nice jump from SATA SSD to NVMe SSD (doesn't have to be top of the line NVMe).
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoDepends. Many cheap NVMe drives that ship with budget laptops are actually slower than good SATA SSDs like Samsung 850. The high speed bus interface is useless if your flash and controller are garbage to the point where NVMe is sometimes no indication of a laptop's storage performance and just a marketing name.
- loeg 6y agoThis thread is discussing only "decent" and better SSDs. Yes, I'm sure you can find absolute garbage with an NVMe interface.
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoEven "decent" brands make garbage NVMe drives for the budget segment to which most consumers are oblivious because they assume NVMe > SATA.
- loeg 6y agoTo clarify: For the purposes of my earlier comment, "decent" applies to individual models; not a brand's entire product line.
- jdashg 6y agoFor many users it's not qualitatively faster, as most workloads (booting, web browsing, even most video game load times) are small-to-medium random reads dominated by processing overhead. Image/video editing, bulk file transfer, and threaded IO are the key benefits of NVME.
- kasabali 6y ago> Workloads just aren't often large and sequential enough Another important thing to mention is that even on sequential write workloads where NVMe shines they actually have limited benefit. Because after the SLC cache fills up seqential speed drops like a hot potato. So if you're copying a smallish large-file which won't fill the cache then it'll be few seconds faster than a SATA drive. Or you'll be copying a large large-file, which'll fill the cache and drop to NAND speeds so it'll still end up being few seconds faster than a SATA drive.