Question NVMe Storage

[Yankee_LT]

Okay, so I have two choices here that I would like to ask you all about. My current PC configuration has a 1TB Operating system drive, the Corsair MP600 Core XT, and a 2TB storage drive of the same. I want to change this to either the MP700 variant (for both drives) or the Samsung 990 Pro. There is the MP700 Pro variant, which is a bit steeper in price. Yes, I understand that there are probably better brands out there, but these are my choices.

Thank you.

 

[USAFRet]

Okay, so I have two choices here that I would like to ask you all about. My current PC configuration has a 1TB Operating system drive, the Corsair MP600 Core XT, and a 2TB storage drive of the same. I want to change this to either the MP700 variant (for both drives) or the Samsung 990 Pro. There is the MP700 Pro variant, which is a bit steeper in price. Yes, I understand that there are probably better brands out there, but these are my choices.

Thank you.

1. Why change?

2. What motherboard do you have?

 

[Yankee_LT]

The motherboard is the MSI X670E. I'm thinking about changing it because of the read/write speed.

 

[USAFRet]

Your motherboared M.2 port is PCIe 5.0 x4.

Your drives are PCIe 4.0 x4.

You will not see any visible performance increase, no matter which one, or both of those, that you change.

 

[Yankee_LT]

Thank you for your advice. I'll give it much thought.

 

[Frag Maniac]

I bought a 4TB NVMe drive over the holidays on sale. It's a Nextorage gen 4 with 7300 Mb/s read and 6900 Mb/s write, and comes with a 5 yr warranty. This is the same drive company out of Japan that Sony was co-owner of when the PS5 came out.

Mind you I looked at offerings from Samsung, Western Digital, and Crucial. This drive cost me barely more than $200, and came with a very good heatsink that is easy to take on and off (many aren't). I didn't end up having to use the heatsink because it runs plenty cool enough with the one on my MB. Nice to have it if I ever need it though.

I have learned the hard way with NVMe drives to buy bigger capacity than you need for future readiness. My Samsung 970 EVO 500 GB drive became a nuisance, having to constantly uninstall games I'd not finished to free up room for new games that came out. Many such drives now are fine quality wise. They use high density chips and often come with 5 yr warranty.

I have not regretted this purchase one bit, it always performs very well. Best to buy them on holiday sales though.

 

[USAFRet]

I have learned the hard way with NVMe drives to buy bigger capacity than you need for future readiness.

It has been that way with all storage devices in the history of ever.

 

[Frag Maniac]

It has been that way with all storage devices in the history of ever.

Of course, but that necessity never was more apparent and fast evolving since games breeched the 100GB file size, which wasn't long ago. Not to mention that if you like to make a partition for the OS as well, the latest versions of Windows are bloated well beyond what it used to be.

 

[USAFRet]

Of course, but that necessity never was more apparent and fast evolving since games breeched the 100GB file size, which wasn't long ago. Not to mention that if you like to make a partition for the OS as well, the latest versions of Windows are bloated well beyond what it used to be.

I'm just saying...this is not specific to NVMe, or even a recent issue.

 

[Frag Maniac]

I'm just saying...this is not specific to NVMe, or even a recent issue.

You more than made your point already. And even though it's not entirely specific to NVMe, those drives are typically the ones used on well built gaming rigs SINCE the games have gone over 100GB. And I definitely disagree that it hasn't been MUCH more prevalent since then as you imply. So please just agree to disagree because I don't want to go round and round with you about it.

My main point was it doesn't make much sense to nit pick over models or brands of NVMe drives, It's more relevant to narrow it down to one of several top contenders and pick one that stands above the rest on price to capacity ratio, and comes with a decent warranty.

Instead you chose to pick out just the part you wanted to nit pick about, and in doing so, made the point I was making with OP secondary. In other words, it's not a peeing contest, its a help request thread!

 

[USAFRet]

You more than made your point already. And even though it's not entirely specific to NVMe, those drives are typically the ones used on well built gaming rigs SINCE the games have gone over 100GB. And I definitely disagree that it hasn't been MUCH more prevalent since then as you imply.

Early-mid 90's, people were bitching about one of the flight sims (Strike Eagle or Falcon 3.0/4.0) taking up 140MB drive space.
This, when a 250MB drive was typical.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Early-mid 90's, people were bitching about one of the flight sims (Strike Eagle or Falcon 3.0/4.0) taking up 140MB drive space.
This, when a 250MB drive was typical.

Yeah, you missed the point entirely AGAIN. Meaning it was hardly common place for games to exceed 100GB back then. More recently, it certainly is. Maybe you should re-read my last post, including what I edited in, because clearly you don't get that I'd rather not turn a help request thread into a peeing contest that does ZERO to help OP!!! You seem to have a habit of doing that.

 

[USAFRet]

Yeah, you missed the point entirely AGAIN. Meaning it was hardly common place for games to exceed 100GB back then. More recently, it certainly is. Maybe you should re-read my last post, including what I edited in, because clearly you don't get that I'd rather not turn a help request thread into a peeing contest that does ZERO to help OP!!! You seem to have a habit of doing that.

Yes, lets end this offtopic sidestep.
Deal?

 

[Ranger_Vet1968]

Well, I finally received my newly commissioned PC. I'll need to put it through its paces and see what's what. So far, it's amazing.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Well, I finally received my newly commissioned PC. I'll need to put it through its paces and see what's what. So far, it's amazing.

Congrats, post some gameplay vids, or at least screenshots if you get the time.