Question Which of these two SSDs should I get ?

[kennethrjones.cs]

1) $269 WD_BLACK 4TB SN7100 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive - Gen4 PCIe, M.2 2280, Up to 7,000 MB/s

2) $479 WD_BLACK 4TB SN8100 NVMe SSD Internal Solid-State Drive - Gen 5 PCIe 5.0x4, M.2 2280, Up to 14,900 MB/s

Between those two, I am wondering which one you would get. I was thinking about getting the first one, but I'm wondering if I'll regret it. The second one is clearly a lot faster, but I've never used one of these before and I know that sometimes in every day/normal use the differences in some things aren't really that noticeable. Like when I upgrade RAM from 6000 to 7200, it was a lot faster but barely noticeable during normal use.

I noticed on the second one the write speed appears to be almost the same as the read 14,000, and on the first one the write speed is only 6900.

 

[USAFRet]

For what use?
On what motherboard?


Yes, the SN8100 benchmark numbers are 'faster" than the SN7100.
In daily use, unlikely you would actually notice.


BUT......
It looks like you will forever regret not getting the faster one.

 

[kennethrjones.cs]

This is my motherboard

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DDZNZF76

It's mainly for gaming. If it's not something I'll really notice much, I'll just go with the cheaper one.

 

[USAFRet]

This is my motherboard

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DDZNZF76

It's mainly for gaming. If it's not something I'll really notice much, I'll just go with the cheaper one.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YoRKQy-UO4

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKLA7w9eeA

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ9LyNXpsOo

 

[CountMike]

Not worth 200 bucks difference but if you have extra money, why not. In real life you are not going to get those speeds, not even close. OS will throw a big wrench in wheel spokes. Specially when writing as that depends on too many factors none of them tied to disk itself.

 

[Bob.B]

1) $269 WD_BLACK 4TB SN7100 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive - Gen4 PCIe, M.2 2280, Up to 7,000 MB/s

2) $479 WD_BLACK 4TB SN8100 NVMe SSD Internal Solid-State Drive - Gen 5 PCIe 5.0x4, M.2 2280, Up to 14,900 MB/s

Between those two, I am wondering which one you would get. I was thinking about getting the first one, but I'm wondering if I'll regret it. The second one is clearly a lot faster, but I've never used one of these before and I know that sometimes in every day/normal use the differences in some things aren't really that noticeable. Like when I upgrade RAM from 6000 to 7200, it was a lot faster but barely noticeable during normal use.

I noticed on the second one the write speed appears to be almost the same as the read 14,000, and on the first one the write speed is only 6900.

If benchmarks are important to you spend the extra bucks otherwise go with the gen4.