Question SSD vs sshd as second drive for VM run

[Danger-Lifter]

Hi. Guys. I have rog g501 which has SSD 128 m.2 and sshd 1tb sata 3. I am working as programmer and run virtual box with Linux on my win machine and working mostly in it. Because of main SSD is not large enough I have to run VM on my second drive sshd. And I am willing to improve performance of my work buying SSD. I see two options now
• Buy samsung 860 Evo SSD 512mb and set it as second drive instead of sshd and keep working with VM on it. Which means sssd will be on sata 3 interface.
• buy Samsung 960 Evo SSD nvme and setup it as primary disk instead of current ssd. So I will work with VM on it. This solution a bit more expensive.

So which is better option? Is SSD on SATa 3 will be significantly faster than current sshd to work with VM? Or imrpovement won't be good enough and I should go with replacement main SSD?

Thank you for your help.

 

[Danger-Lifter]

Any help?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Samsung 860 evo is fine choice. Crucial MX500 would be another good option.

Not sure, if NVME drive will give you any significant benefit for VM usage.
More ram probably would give more of performance impact.

 

[McKeu]

Samsung 860 evo is fine choice. Crucial MX500 would be another good option.

Not sure, if NVME drive will give you any significant benefit for VM usage.
More ram probably would give more of performance impact.

I am not so sure about that either. I do not think that the performance difference would be significant. Ram and CPU power / Cores are the most crucial factors for VM performance.
Also changing the virtualization solution might give you a performance increase. Compare using VMWare Workstation Player (it's free) as pure hardware virtualization, for example, to using virtual box which is software/hardware virtualization.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

nvme should be better vm performance if you can afford it. it's all about the IOPs

 

[Danger-Lifter]

Samsung 860 evo is fine choice. Crucial MX500 would be another good option.

Not sure, if NVME drive will give you any significant benefit for VM usage.
More ram probably would give more of performance impact.

Thanks for reply. I have max 16gb Ram. So question is replace main SSD or sshd in my case?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Depends on, how much you're willing to spend. I'd replace SSHD.

 

[jsmithepa]

Strictly budget concern. If I find myself constantly recompiling my project, NVME all the way even if I have to skip a few lunches