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vivster on 04 January 2021
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Bofferbrauer2 said:
vivster said:

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.

Doesn't really matter much for a system drive that's exclusively meant to boot the PC and load Steam and nothing else.

Might consider it next time but now it's too late to change anyway.



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