Upgrading from 840 EVO 120GB

[Avi Bis]

I have a i5 4670k with Corsair H100i system with AsRock z87 Extreme4, 32 GB GSkill Ares F3-2400C11D 8x4, Asus 970 GTX, Samsung 840 EVO 120 GB as primary windows boot, Transcend SSD370 128 GB secondary, and 2 TB WD green as backup.

I am thinking of upgrading my primary windows disk. My options are the following -

1. Samsung 860 EVO 500GB

2. Samsung 850 Pro 256GB

3. Samsung 960 EVO 250GB PCIe NVMe on a Jeyi PCIe NVMe card (http://)

I know that a Z87M Extreme4 can boot from PCIe adapter based 960 EVO (http://), hoping mine would too.

Which one should I go for for maximum real world performance gain? I don't do video editing, just gaming.

 

[TechyInAZ]

the 860 EVO for sure.

I upgraded from a 840 Pro to a 960 EVO and besides some specific file transfers and benchmarks, i cannot feel any difference at all in boot times for OS and games when I upgraded.

So go for more storage capacity.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Performance increase from upgrading 840 evo to 860 evo would be insignificant. (BTW - make sure your 840 evo has latest firmware).
Do the upgrade only, if more storage space is necessary on your OS drive.

Crucial MX300 / MX500 also would be good upgrade option (for more storage space).

 

[Avi Bis]

the 860 EVO for sure.

I upgraded from a 840 Pro to a 960 EVO and besides some specific file transfers and benchmarks, i cannot feel any difference at all in boot times for OS and games when I upgraded.

So go for more storage capacity.

840 Pro is faster than 840 EVO, may be that's why you didn't see any performance boost when you got 960 EVO. I don't really need more than ~250 GB. I am looking for a performance increase.

 

[Avi Bis]

Performance increase from upgrading 840 evo to 860 evo would be insignificant. (BTW - make sure your 840 evo has latest firmware).
Do the upgrade only, if more storage space is necessary on your OS drive.

Crucial MX300 / MX500 also would be good upgrade option (for more storage space).

What about 960? It's an NVMe drive, no sata limitation.

 

[SkyNetRising]

What about 960? It's an NVMe drive, no sata limitation.

IMHO - not worth it.
Only difference you'll ever see from such upgrade is faster boot times and better benchmark numbers.
Zero perceivable, real world difference.

 

[TechyInAZ]

the 860 EVO for sure.

I upgraded from a 840 Pro to a 960 EVO and besides some specific file transfers and benchmarks, i cannot feel any difference at all in boot times for OS and games when I upgraded.

So go for more storage capacity.

840 Pro is faster than 840 EVO, may be that's why you didn't see any performance boost when you got 960 EVO. I don't really need more than ~250 GB. I am looking for a performance increase.

No it's not. I have several computers with different kinds of SSD's, they all are just as fast as each other.

The reason why there isn't a noticeable increase in performance is because the hard drive/SSD is no longer the bottleneck, rather the CPU and OS are the bottleneck.

Only grab the NVME variant if you want to transfer files at super high speeds.