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SAMSUNG 980 SSD 500GB PCle 3.0x4, NVMe M.2 2280 - $44.99 Amazon

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Jan 27, 2023 4:21 PM
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NattefrostJan 27, 2023 4:21 PM
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Is this better than 970 Evo plus
Jan 27, 2023 5:15 PM
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omarjqJan 27, 2023 5:15 PM
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No..from what I know the 970 Evo plus is a better drive.
Jan 27, 2023 6:41 PM
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musicmanleyJan 27, 2023 6:41 PM
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Quote from Nattefrost View quoted comment :
Is this better than 970 Evo plus
It is a later generation but I believe it lacks dram whereas the 970 Evo Plus has dram which should give overall better (more consistent) performance.
Jan 27, 2023 8:33 PM
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violianJan 27, 2023 8:33 PM
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I bought the 1TB version for $94 on Newegg back in Aug-2021. So I presume the 500GB version would've been roughly $50 ~2 years ago during a sale. With much faster NvME's today for roughly the same price (e.g. Crucial P3 Plus 500GB that is only $40) as this, why wouldn't you buy the Crucial? Maybe my set-up is wrong, but I have Microsoft Flight Simulator and Forza Horizon 5 on this "980", and games just takes forever to load up to the main menu (when firing up the game). I've been eyeing the P3 Plus for the past month because I'm curious if the 5000MB/s read speed would reduce the load times.
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Jan 27, 2023 8:51 PM
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AnonymousOctopusJan 27, 2023 8:51 PM
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Quote from violian View quoted comment :
I bought the 1TB version for $94 on Newegg back in Aug-2021. So I presume the 500GB version would've been roughly $50 ~2 years ago during a sale. With much faster NvME's today for roughly the same price (e.g. Crucial P3 Plus 500GB that is only $40) as this, why wouldn't you buy the Crucial? Maybe my set-up is wrong, but I have Microsoft Flight Simulator and Forza Horizon 5 on this "980", and games just takes forever to load up to the main menu (when firing up the game). I've been eyeing the P3 Plus for the past month because I'm curious if the 5000MB/s read speed would reduce the load times.
I've only seen a few major reviewers with extensive game loading benchmarks, but they generally show most decent NVMe SSDs load games fairly similarly: https://www.techpowerup.com/revie...tb/13.html

Btw, have you compared game load times on your Samsung 980 to any others? I bought two WD SN 570s that are supposed to be very similar but were cheaper when I searched. They've been fantastic for my laptop and desktop. For bootup, gaming, software dev, low temps etc. For game loads, it wasn't that much faster than my DRAM SATA SSDs though, as expected.
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Jan 27, 2023 8:54 PM
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RedFlagDeelsJan 27, 2023 8:54 PM
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can we cut this into 2230 ssd for steamdeck?
Jan 27, 2023 11:08 PM
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FairTeam939Jan 27, 2023 11:08 PM
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Quote from musicmanley View quoted comment :
It is a later generation but I believe it lacks dram whereas the 970 Evo Plus has dram which should give overall better (more consistent) performance.
this looks to be a good price for Samsung, but looking at some of the questions posed, one reviewer on Amazon Customer questions & answers didn't seem to recommend this for a pc with 8 gigs of ram...

As another user mentioned in his review, without the cache (DRAM cache, 1GB in the 1TB ssd), the 980 firmware cleverly makes use of system memory - which is _fast_ these days.

However - in a machine with 8 GB, or even 16 GB at times - depending upon what programs you're using, you may find the 980 suffering on multi-file operations if it can't secure about a GB of system memory. I would still pick the 980 all day long as a data drive, but might hesitate if I didn't have sufficient system memory (I've 32GB and could spare the GB). In an 8GB system I would probably think twice about the 980. Well, in an 8GB system I would be buying memory first, ;-)[/COLOR]

anyone have issues using this for a C drive with 8 gigs of ram? thanks.
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Jan 28, 2023 12:52 AM
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NowItsTimeJan 28, 2023 12:52 AM
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Quote from RedFlagDeels View quoted comment :
can we cut this into 2230 ssd for steamdeck?
Just buy a 2230 off eBay for $40. Tons of em . Kioxia makes a good one I,use for mine
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