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nvme?
They're not NVME
I was saying if tonyjzx was referring to NVME
@ONEMariachi: bet you after 5 years the warranty runs out and it will break like most things do but should already have upgraded by then
@Poor Ass: Yeah I tend to upgrade my PC every 5 years, so meh haha. There's a good chance we'll really see big upgrades to gaming with NVME, now that consoles are pushing that tech though. Give it 18 months and we'll get some major benefits beyond simply load times.
Any deals on 1TB or larger m2/nvme drives? Need one as a secondary storage drive for my laptop
Don't assume NVME just because there's an M.2 slot.
If you're looking at NVME I think just pick one that's the size you want and fits inside the budget you have.
None of them are 'slow'. You only need the fastest one when it comes to d*** measure contests with your mates and you want to have the fasted sequential read speed. Which is a metric that means almost nothing in the real world.
*pulls out measuring tape
*gets disappointed
I know the difference between nvme and m2 and compatibility etc.
I'm really after any reputable brand for reliability since it's just going to be used as a secondary drive for games.
The Crucial MX500 M2 1TB has been $140 in the past and would like to find something similar.https://www.umart.com.au/Silicon-Power-1TB-NVMe-PCIe-Gen3x4-…
that's probably cheapest and reputable atm
keep in mind MVMe's went up 15% in price since last week
@Poor Ass: $177 in December. I hope they go back down again in a few months, I was hoping the 2TB Silicon Power would drop in price later this year.
@FabMan: for now they'll only go up because it's fancy pants of hard drives… in a few years they'll drop like all technology
@Poor Ass: Would you recommend that as the OS + Steam Library drive? I haven't really looked into M.2 drives.
@[Deactivated]: Yeah I personally have the 512GB this one https://www.umart.com.au/Silicon-Power-512GB-NVMe-PCIe-Gen3x… that I got for $106 2 weeks ago but they just increased the price!!!
Issue was I had to use a makeshift m2 screw, happens to be M2 size haha to screw it down…
Boots in 10-15 seconds on windows 10 and yes I got Steam too.
I'm running an old computer i3-8100, 2x8GB DDR 2400Mhz so probably boot much faster for you
@Poor Ass: Wow, this pricing is pretty rough. I paid about $140 after cashback ($174 before) for the same drive with a Pioneer label back in November with the Shopback 20% Amazon cashback. That was an exceptional deal of course, but even not considering cashback a $30-40 increase is pretty hefty. 1TB Drives like the Lexar NM610 were $130, Crucial P1 $140. Now $170 is the best for a P1 at MSY.
@Poor Ass: Yeah, my point was more that they've all gone up and none of them are a deal right now. Now you're stuck with a P1 at the same price point the SP A80 was a few months ago. Just not a good time to be looking for one.
Right now that is true for the vast majority of people. The next-gen consoles are going to use NVME drives, so games will hopefully be designed to take advantage of the increased data transfer rates, so in a couple of years, NVME over SSD might be an important choice for gamers. Not right now though. An example is Star Citizen with the large constant streaming of data.
NVME over SSD might be an important choice for gamers. Not right now though
I'll take 100% faster loading times now thanks.
@Diji1: It doesn't work like that though, at some point, the storage data transfer rates have little to no impact on loading times. This can be a limitation to the engine processing the data or the CPU and RAM utilisation. Game engines are designed around being used on HDDs, not SSDs, when the both the new PlayStation and XBox have NVME SSDs, you'll see games being developed around extremely short loading times and streaming data constantly from the storage medium to CPU, GPU or RAM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AYextvB9l4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3AMz-xZ2VM
AFAIK, Star Citizen is built for SSDs in general, not NVMe. Keep in mind there are other developments at work to reduce draw calls and increase caching of assets at the engine and hardware level.
I'd suggest by the time anyone has outgrown the speed of a SATA SSD, we'll be dealing with cheaper far higher endurance storage, both PCIE and DIMM based.
@jasswolf: Maybe you are right. The new consoles with NVME as standaed may change things, but that is a few years off as developers will need to come to understand how to best utilise the new standardise tech.
@FabMan: Yeah the biggest changes I can see happening is consoles dealing more and more with larger texture sets, and open world games being less restrictive in moving from area to area.
On consoles, primitive shaders will help further with that, and that's a benefit that will be coming to PCs from April thanks to a DX12 update.
It's unlikely they'll rely on those drives to do heavy caching due to the endurance concerns.
@jasswolf: I agree they won't do much caching on it, liek you mentioned, endurance would be an issue. I imagine many developers will do away with the majority of loading screens and stream more content on the fly as your perspective moves around the environment. So I imagine the environment will able to change more rapidly in future games as the data moves in and out quicker.
So portal games with extreme transistions through environments, or that Star Citizen of moving from a galaxy view to the bolts on the floor of a planet in one go will be common.
SSD storage under 500GB are often slower than larger storage because they cannot run storage in RAID like configuration internally.
500GB for RAID lol why would you bother
This is 500mb/s model not 2000 3000 or 4000.
Is it just me or NAND Prices are going up, before xmas you could pickup a 240GB SSD for $36 on special, now the cheapest seems to be $48
I agree, prices are rising and I want answers D:
It’s because the exchange rate of AUD is getting worse/weaker so the price of all imported stuff going up
Does it come with the connectors that allow easy installation on a desktop that’s a few years old?
I am using 2.5 inch size ssd at the moment.
Unlikely, also being a SATA SSD it will perform similarly to your current 2.5" ssd
Thanks for the advice I will hold off for now.
What's with these comments thinking NVME will make a difference for their consumer use? I highly doubt there's a huge percentage of people here utilizing well over 100K IOPS. But I guess it's an ego measuring contest with how semi-affordable NVME is.
Ebay code will not work for me, bummer
sata m2 so less useful to very modern hardware