[SOLVED] SSD worth swapping for another?

[kouga]

I just purchased a secondary SSD for my Alienware R4 laptop. It has slot for both so I can keep them both. I am just wondering if the OS would be worth moving to the new SSD drive? I ran a benchmark on both and it looks like it should be faster. But I am not sure if its worth?

OLD SSD, Currently has the OS in it: Toshiba XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB
NEW SSD: Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 2TB

Also, does the slot affect the speed at all? Should I swap them from one to the other once the file transfer is done? Or does not matter? I assume it does not.

Benchmark report:
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/47921179
(Not sure why it didnt use the dedicated video card)

 

[USAFRet]

User facing performance difference between those drives is zero.

The 970, of course, is much much larger.

It does not appear there is any difference between the two slots.

 

[kouga]

Hmmm even for gaming? o.o Benchmark shows 409mb/s average, in one vs 1,426.

 

[Bob.B]

I just purchased a secondary SSD for my Alienware R4 laptop. It has slot for both so I can keep them both. I am just wondering if the OS would be worth moving to the new SSD drive? I ran a benchmark on both and it looks like it should be faster. But I am not sure if its worth?

OLD SSD, Currently has the OS in it: Toshiba XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB
NEW SSD: Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 2TB

Also, does the slot affect the speed at all? Should I swap them from one to the other once the file transfer is done? Or does not matter? I assume it does not.

Benchmark report:
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/47921179
(Not sure why it didnt use the dedicated video card)

Couple of things.
You have so much background stuff running that the UBM numbers are going to be wonky.

You are comparing the numbers from a full ssd against a empty ssd.

The fix......clean off 20GB from the OS disk.
Reboot and wait a few mins then run UBM with the browser closed.

 

[sizzling]

Hmmm even for gaming? o.o Benchmark shows 409mb/s average, in one vs 1,426.

There is virtual no difference for games between a good SATA drive and a top end pcie 4.0 drive. There are many comparisons on YouTube for Windows boot times and game loading.

 

[USAFRet]

Hmmm even for gaming? o.o Benchmark shows 409mb/s average, in one vs 1,426.

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

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

 

[kouga]

Thanks everyone! I think I will leave it as is.