I have a 2012 Lenovo Y480 with a 1TB mechanical hard drive that I'd like to upgrade to a 1TB SSD. I'm looking at getting either the 1TB Samsung 850 EVO (currently about $290) or 1TB Mushkin Reactor (currently about $230).
It looks like the Samsung gets somewhat better performance (for instance, see all the graphs and charts, here and here, where they compare the two drives), but the Mushkin is also quite a bit cheaper, so, my question is: will the difference in performance between the two drives be meaningful/noticeable?
For instance, when it says the Mushkin Reactor scores around 400 seconds for latency during its light workloads service times test while the Samsung 850 EVO scores only 200 seconds, what does this mean in terms of a real world difference between the two drives? What will I notice?
Or are we just talking about tenths of a second in differences, realistically, for how I use my computer? (I tend to keep about 50 browser tabs open in Chrome, which will include several paused and one active 1080p YouTube video, so a lot is cached to the hard drive or at least it seems to kill my mechanical hard drive's performance, I play some games, and probably everything else I do is less intensive).
It looks like the Samsung gets somewhat better performance (for instance, see all the graphs and charts, here and here, where they compare the two drives), but the Mushkin is also quite a bit cheaper, so, my question is: will the difference in performance between the two drives be meaningful/noticeable?
For instance, when it says the Mushkin Reactor scores around 400 seconds for latency during its light workloads service times test while the Samsung 850 EVO scores only 200 seconds, what does this mean in terms of a real world difference between the two drives? What will I notice?
Or are we just talking about tenths of a second in differences, realistically, for how I use my computer? (I tend to keep about 50 browser tabs open in Chrome, which will include several paused and one active 1080p YouTube video, so a lot is cached to the hard drive or at least it seems to kill my mechanical hard drive's performance, I play some games, and probably everything else I do is less intensive).