The price for this has dropped even more than the deal the other day. It is now $181.09 from Amazon, but with 5% cashback from Cashrewards you get it for $172! I already ordered one at the slightly higher price and will use mine for Steam/Origin/Battle.net/Epic games installs.
CamelCamelCamel.
Yeah, my first NVME was also pretty disappointing…
In every day tasks and games, even boot times my Samsung 960 PRO doesn't seem noticeably faster than my previous EVO Sata
but if I had a 2nd Nvme it would at least make moving stuff around unbelievably fast…
I expected it to be like Spinning disk > sata ssd sort of change, but it's not.
oh, sorry ESO was on my 8TB Mirror, so it was on spinning disks… thought it would make it much faster, didnt really notice it though..
opps meant to say 960 pro… so yeah, will be interesting to copy from NVMe to NVMe, (and for that matter compare the difference transferring to a SATA disk, or even a decent spinning disk set.)
So you expected a game on your HDD to run faster because you installed an NVMe drive?
@Tacooo: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…. HAHAHAHAH… HAHAHAHA…
Do i really need to mention that i copied it across to the new NVMe/PCIe drive? would have thought that goes without saying!
@Tacooo: would anyone truly believe adding a storage device to there system and not actually putting anything on it speed up general system performance?
I regularly hit above 1gb/s between my two 950 pro's
(responding to menvert)
1Gb/s or 1GB/s? Big difference buddy and without reference the stats are useless.
ok buddy.
125MB versus 1000MB. Huge difference mate. Only a factor of 8.
He obviously means 1 gigabyte per second. 1 gigabit between those drives and you would probably send it back.
Or he has a faulty drive and/or controller. There's a reason they have different casing, to differentiate between the different units.
I actually hit above 2gb today copying something, according to the windows copying modal.
@paralleltwin: Burst speeds would definitely be around there. Even on my Seagate Ironwolf 10TB I get burst speeds of up to 550mb/s. Looking at getting a M.2 NVMe drive soon. Be great for encoding (especially 4K) and transferring Movie / TV files constantly. Other than encoding and transferring small to medium files I haven't seen too much difference in real world applications compared to SSD.
Is thus nvme or sata?
NVMe
Dammit.
LOL, old Mobo that supports M2, but not NVMe/PCIe?
@wisc: Its for a Toshiba laptop/tablet. It takes a SATA M.2 drive and no other internal option. It only came with 256GB which is a bit too small for what I want to do with it. I've been waiting patiently for a 1TB M.2 SATA under $200 (or 2TB under $400) for what seems like forever.
They're all NVMe. You mean PCIe or SATA.
@Tacooo: M2 is the form factor. You've then got PCIe (otherwise known as NVMe) or Sata which is the connection and determines speed/throughput
Great price, question is do I need this o.O
I opened a drawer the other day and found a brand new SSD that I don't remember ordering!
Hahaha…yep that happens.
Just installed mine, I've now got a Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB as my OS drive and this 660P 1TB as a data drive. 20gb folder copy took around 15 seconds. Maxed out at 1.5GBps write which is the 660P bottlenecking, as the 970 Evo Plus achieves around 2.6GBps read and 2.4GBps write. The 660P is still almost 3x as fast as SATA SSD's.
Extremely good value for the price. A lot of people complain about QLC, yes it technically has a smaller lifespan and other technical bottlenecks. But for regular users (installing games, storing data/files for irregular access), it would almost be impossible to hit these limits. From what I've read on the 660P, you'd have to hit hundreds of gigabytes of continuous data writes before seeing significant drops in performance.
Intel has done a good job with the SLC cache on this drive and they've squeezed as much as possible out of the QLC tech used, but it should be noted that if you fill this drive up and the SLC cache has to be reduced due to limited available space, the performance will also struggle significantly.
Back up to $292.72 :(
Newegg have the 660p 1tb for $179.30 with free shipping now
installed mine last night, I was hoping this drive would make ESO much faster for load speeds, its didn't make it that noticeably different unfortunately..
doubt that would be related to the drive speed though.
Need to run some file copy tests on it i rekon… as the copy seemed quite slow. (not sure if that was my 2x8TB raid 1, but i thought that could hit at least 300MB/s - where i was only hitting about 150 during the copy.)