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vivster said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Yea but since the SSD prices are gonna continue to go down due to the over supply and the Dark Hero has 2 Nvme slots. Wouldn't it be better to buy only the 1TB ssd for now and then get a second 1-2TB one on sale sometime this year? Hell the WD SN850s already went on a slight discount a few times.

I won't ever need more than 1TB. And if I'm gonna need more in a few years I'll just replace the 1TB drive. Wouldn't want to deal with 2 different drives for storage anyway.

The smaller drives tend to be slower than their bigger versions though, the smaller the drive the bigger the slowdown. And the price difference is too low to justify taking the smaller version imo.

I mean, you took 2 980 Pro for your build, 1 250GB and 1 1TB version. Just compare their read/write speeds and their prices in relation to their capacity. Once the SLC cache has reached capacity the drive will be just as fast as an SATA SSD (500MB/s advertised), even more so if the drive is starting to fill up and needing to delete and rewrite more and more chunks of old data.

If you really want a smaller drive for the OS, then at least take the 500GB version, which is much more resistant to slowdowns compared to the 250GB variant (1100 MB/s on the TLC Chips after the SLC cache is at full capacity, and that SLC has basically the same speed as in the 1TB variant) for only 40€ more.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 03 January 2021