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2 diffrent m.2 SSD-s

apelsinimahl

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So i am building pc and i want a good SSD but pretty cheap for my pc and i found these 2:
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so the first one costs like only 10euro more but it has so much faster reading speed and reading speed is most important for me. Is it worth to buy the 10 euro expensiver?
 
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The Kingston drive is NVMe, the SiliconPower drive is SATA3.

If the motherboard you're looking at supports NVMe/PCIe M.2 drives, then yes, the 10EUR investment probably makes sense.

Is it "worth it" though? Really depends on your use-case. For an average user, the improved boot/load/save times are not going to be overly noticeable (might save a second or two here or there)....... Outside of benchmarks, they'll "feel" pretty much the same.
Kingston maybe the better buy since it is I think a better brand, but I could be wrong.
The thing is though, you generally won't find any difference between them in normal computing terms, because I went from a standard to a pro and there is no difference for the tasks I do.
 
The Kingston drive is NVMe, the SiliconPower drive is SATA3.

If the motherboard you're looking at supports NVMe/PCIe M.2 drives, then yes, the 10EUR investment probably makes sense.

Is it "worth it" though? Really depends on your use-case. For an average user, the improved boot/load/save times are not going to be overly noticeable (might save a second or two here or there)....... Outside of benchmarks, they'll "feel" pretty much the same.
 
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