Not sure where anybody thinks
Not sarcasm at all, but do people really buy Samsung EVO Sata drives? They cost as much as a decent nvme.
No, they really don't in a lot of cases.
For example.
A 1TB Samsung 860 EVO currently runs about 109.99. A current 1TB Samsung 970 EVO runs about 140 bucks. So, that's a 30 dollar difference.
30 bucks might mean the difference between getting a a crappy PSU or a decent one. 30 bucks could be the difference between a bottom tier motherboard and a middle tier motherboard with much better quality and features.
Moving on, a 2TB 860 EVO currently runs about 200 bucks. A 2TB 970 EVO Plus, which is the least expensive Samsung NVME 2TB M.2 drive, runs about 320 bucks. That's a 120 dollar difference.
A 1TB Crucial MX500 runs 90 bucks. A 1TB Crucial P2 also runs about 90 bucks, but, it's random performance is pretty terrible when compared to the Samsung 970 EVO Plus and isn't actually much better than the MX500 SATA drive. Still yet, I'd agree that AT THIS TIME, the P2 would be the better choice as the primary OS drive for systems that can support it. Those prices might be significantly different before long, when the prices of these drives go up due to what they are saying will be controller shortages.
Moving on again, the 2TB MX500 is 180 bucks. The 2TB P2 is 225 bucks. A 45 dollar difference. Again, that might well be better spent towards some other hardware when the fact is that the random performance, which is where most OS drives "live" the majority of the time, isn't terribly different and I think anybody who is willing to pay an extra 45 bucks to shave two seconds off their boot time is living in a different world than most of us are.
Let's look at WD.
The WD Blue 1TB SATA SSD is 90 bucks. The SN550 1TB is 105 bucks, and that drive doesn't even begin to compare with the two drives listed above in either sequential or random performance, but is only a 15 dollar difference, so not a lot, but not parity either.
At 2 TB, the WD Blue is 220 dollars. The SN750, their closest NVME M.2 2TB drive in cost, is 275 dollars. A pretty substantial 55.00 difference.
At 1TB or less, SOME argument could be made, in some cases, for NVME being the better purchase because there is cost parity, but not in all cases, and absolutely not at higher capacities. And these days, let's face it, 1TB is getting to be the minimum you'd generally be willing to look at for a new system unless you were absolutely scrapping the bottom of the budget to fit your drive in. A really skinny system can surely get by with a 500GB or maybe even a 250GB if you don't plan to install much on the OS drive and will have your game files all on a secondary drive, as well as most personal file storage.
I'm not arguing that M.2 NVME drives aren't preferred, in a lot of cases, but not in every case and not if you have to sacrifice someplace else in the budget where it might be important enough to not want to HAVE to sacrifice something.
And the bottom line is, in comparison after comparison, that for 75% or more of what most people do on their systems, INCLUDING gaming, going with most current PCIe M.2 drives over SATA M.2 or standard SATA just really doesn't give you a tremendous advantage or gain. You really have to cherry pick some particularly specific circumstances for that happen and then it's almost entirely going to be in terms of those rare sequential operations that can really benefit from PCIe speeds.
This certainly applies to this comment, as well, because I CAN certainly see somebody going with a SATA drive if it means not having to sacrifice someplace else as I outlined above, or if it's a system that won't support M.2 NVME for a bootable OS drive, as you DID mention, and I agree with.
Can't imagine anyone intentionally using SATA as a primary OS/application drive in lieu of NVME M.2 for new systems....
However, in truth you get a pass because apparently you are in at least somewhat agreement based on this:
I agree, the prices should be noticeably less than NVME, however...)
cant go nvme as no more free m.2 ports, and notebook only has sata, the price of the 2, 1 TB 970 evos + add on m.2 card for my main system was more then the 2 860 evo drives would of been, and for just storage, really no need for nvme drives.
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