Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Drive: 500GB

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11-23-2020 at 05:51 PM #46

Is 970 EVO Plus better than EVO? Thought I remember reading EVO was better without the plus moniker?

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11-23-2020 at 05:53 PM #47

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I said it in a different post. Linus Tech Tips did a real world blind test with like 3 people with similar systems where the difference was SSD SATA vs PCI-E vs NVME and all three picked SATA as fastest or something. Either way, conclusion was it was hair splitting no matter what and if it wasn't a side by side, it would have been impossible to tell the difference without comparing benchmarks.

Yeah. I didn't see a difference except when processing video files. When it can focus on a single monstrous file, it's quicker.

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11-23-2020 at 05:59 PM #48

same price everywhere

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11-23-2020 at 06:02 PM #49

Get gen4 980 pro for Windows boot drive.

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11-23-2020 at 06:15 PM #50

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I bought 250gb in 2013 for $200. What is your point? Tech depreciates.

Yea these have come down in price a lot! Wow.

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11-23-2020 at 06:21 PM #51

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Anyone know if this will potentially work in a PS5?

This is a PCI-E 3.0 drive, not fast enough for the PS5, which requires a PCI-E 4.0 drive capable of ~7 GB/sec read speed as far as I know

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11-23-2020 at 06:26 PM #52

For anyone interested, LTT test https://youtube.com/watch?v=4DKLA7w9eeA.

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11-23-2020 at 06:29 PM #53

links are all broken?

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11-23-2020 at 06:32 PM #54

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Anyone know if this will potentially work in a PS5?

probably not since its not a pcie gen 4 drive

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11-23-2020 at 06:34 PM #55

I'm thinking of cancelling my Hynix P31 gold, how much better is this for $10 more, 1tb?

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11-23-2020 at 06:49 PM #56

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I'm thinking of cancelling my Hynix P31 gold, how much better is this for $10 more, 1tb?

The hynix is better. The evo plus is about the same as the hynix.

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11-23-2020 at 06:51 PM #57

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Is 970 EVO Plus better than EVO? Thought I remember reading EVO was better without the plus moniker?

Evo plus is better. Not sure why anyone is buying this. The evo plus is the same price through Samsung with cash back...

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11-23-2020 at 06:57 PM #58

One of the best reliable M.2 NVMe but 500gb is hardly anything if you plan to install few games or planning to toy with any videos/photos.

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11-23-2020 at 06:59 PM #59

I thought about getting the Samsung 2tb NVMe for my desktop, but then I remembered that my motherboard has PCIE 2.0 slots, so I went with the Samsung 2tb SSD.

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11-23-2020 at 07:04 PM #60

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In for 2x 500GB for Synology DS920+ cache

Likely more than you need but for this price might as well. Here is the PSA: be sure to set them to READ only. Do some research before you set them to READ+WRITE because there are lot's of discussions of disasters with consumer NVME drives being able to write.

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