Stumbled on this NVME on the EPP site. Seems to be cheapest at the moment and even better if you can get your 1TB up to $350 and get the $50 sign up to get it down to $300
Form Factor : M.2 (2280)
Read : Up to 6,400 MB/s
Write : Up to 2,700 MB/s
Interface: NVMe 1.3c, PCIe Gen 4.0 x4
ah, didnt know that. Only ever used the voucher on things over that amount.
I guess its still the cheapest but only by couple dollars. Can be removed
Those gains would wanna be noticeable to pay this much more then all the 2tb deals etc lately.
If the previous gen. (970) is any indication, I'm sure there will be noticeable difference…
First hand experience?
Imo the jump to nvme over sata is noticeable, having had a high end nvme but I assume it's not amazingly noticeable for average user? Happy to be corrected.
In what tasks?
These NVMe drives are nice, but deliver very little in terms of real world experience to very few scenarios.
At best they might shave literally 2 seconds off load times in some games.
Getting more of you game collection onto a much larger SSD will be a lot more beneficial than this tiny useless thing.
I have a Sabrent 4.0 and the 970 Evo 3.0 - and its a massive improvement for multimedia design - huge project sizes, textures and graphics.
If I load up a game - no difference. If I boot up desktop - no difference.
if you don't work on large scale productivity projects - its equivalent to burning money.
You're not wrong, however eventually DirectStorage (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directstorage-is-comi…) will utilize PCIe 4.0 and have a hopefully significant impact on asset loading in games.
This is exactly why I wanna get one! Waiting for directstorage
While you're waiting everyone else is getting immediate benefits from sensibly priced 2TB SSD's
@virtual81: I mean yea fair point but like if I'm building a pc, shouldn't I grab the gen 4 ssd? Coz like directstorage is probs gonna be here in less than a year
@Lance Miranda: Completely pointless.
It will be here in a year…. in theory.
Then how long until implemented, and how much of a real world befit in practice.
Gen 4 SSD's aren't a whole lot faster than Gen 3 in practice.
~ 3.8GB/sec vs 6GB/s might seem like a big gap, but neither of those speeds are being leveraged at all currently.
Currently a SATA SSD matches NVMe drives within 2 seconds on game load tests.
That's a stat everyone loves to argue against and hate, but it's been proven time and again.
That clearly means as far as game loading goes Gen 3 SSD's still have a massive amount of untapped potential.
Me personally? I'd rather a larger Gen 3 drive that still has the massive potential at a lower cost than a Gen 4 drive.
In other words, good Gen 3 drives are already massively under utilized for game loading, direct storage will unleash that.
So put the money toward getting a drive you can put more games/apps on.
Thank you for your comment, this was really helpful!
FYI all sizes are currently back in stock at Samsung EPP. I just grabbed a 1TB drive
will edit title for the rest. Guess if you can get your order up to $350 you can get the $50 off with 1TB
1Tb drives OOS already….didn't take long
its back on stock
250, 500, IN STOCK
1tb OOS as of now
Minimum spend is $350 for the voucher