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The Samsung 990 Evo Plus 1TB deal is back if anyone is in the market for an SSD
Description:
GROUNDBREAKING READ/WRITE SPEEDS: The 990 EVO Plus features the latest NAND memory, boosting sequential read/write speeds up to 7,250/6,300MB/s*. Ideal for huge file transfers and finishing tasks faster than ever.
LARGE STORAGE CAPACITY: Harness the full power of your drive with Intelligent TurboWrite2.0's enhanced large-file performance—now available in a 4TB capacity.
EXCEPTIONAL THERMAL CONTROL: Keep your cool as you work—or play—without worrying about overheating or battery life. The efficiency-boosting nickel-coated controller allows the 990 EVO Plus to utilize less power while achieving similar performance.
OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE: Optimized to support the latest technology for SSDs—990 EVO Plus is compatible with PCIe 4.0 x4 and PCIe 5.0 x2. This means you get more bandwidth and higher data processing and performance.
NEVER MISS AN UPDATE: Your 990 EVO Plus SSD performs like new with the always up-to-date Magician Software. Stay up to speed with the latest firmware updates, extra encryption, and continual monitoring of your drive health–it works like a charm.
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What does that mean to us mortals?
Nothing. In 99% of the cases it doesn't matter. NVMe drives are good for reading lots of small files very fast.
With a drive without DRAM, sequential reads drop after some time. But in real life, no one needs to read one single file that fast.
Loading a PDF, video game, pictures, etc...you won't notice. The difference is fractions of a second. Even for games which may take 30 seconds to load you *might* see a second difference.
Its a useless, antiquated metric for most, and you would be better served judging a drive by TBW warranty.
It also means that for a large part of the slickdeals community, they jump on DRAM vs DRAM-less like a dog in heat. Even though the technology has changed and for the wild majority of people it makes no difference, they still remember Gen 2 SSDs and think "I know everything is faster now, but the technology must not have changed."
As a hybrid shooter (photographer and videographer) who has taken as many as 10,000 photos and a few hours of video in a day, it *might* make a difference when I am moving hundreds of gigs of files between working to archival drives. Except I am not a bellend (or at least not in this case) and instead of staring at my files transferring, I do something else. I might scroll a reel, go watch a movie, or basically anything other than watching the progress of the file transfer because its pretty stupid.
Loading a PDF, video game, pictures, etc...you won't notice. The difference is fractions of a second. Even for games which may take 30 seconds to load you *might* see a second difference.
Its a useless, antiquated metric for most, and you would be better served judging a drive by TBW warranty.
It also means that for a large part of the slickdeals community, they jump on DRAM vs DRAM-less like a dog in heat. Even though the technology has changed and for the wild majority of people it makes no difference, they still remember Gen 2 SSDs and think "I know everything is faster now, but the technology must not have changed."
As a hybrid shooter (photographer and videographer) who has taken as many as 10,000 photos and a few hours of video in a day, it *might* make a difference when I am moving hundreds of gigs of files between working to archival drives. Except I am not a bellend (or at least not in this case) and instead of staring at my files transferring, I do something else. I might scroll a reel, go watch a movie, or basically anything other than watching the progress of the file transfer because its pretty stupid.
Limitations with his methodology is he used two different drive brands and so who knows how much if the minor time differences are from components / controller vs dram / dram-less.
Also, its 3d Generation kit. Even low end NVME drives now adays would CRUSH those speeds. But you run into all kinds of super nerdy stuff. What version is your motherboard? Are the PCIe lanes already saturated? Is the source or the destination the bottle neck? Blah blah blah. Basically, things are all fast enough that if you don't know enough to be able to match everything, you'll still be happy. But I would also rather a paper-cut on my taint over trusting my data to an Orico drive. For me (as someone who probably taxes their systems a bit more than you), resiliency is the concern far more than the speed.
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Loading a PDF, video game, pictures, etc...you won't notice. The difference is fractions of a second. Even for games which may take 30 seconds to load you *might* see a second difference.
Its a useless, antiquated metric for most, and you would be better served judging a drive by TBW warranty.
It also means that for a large part of the slickdeals community, they jump on DRAM vs DRAM-less like a dog in heat. Even though the technology has changed and for the wild majority of people it makes no difference, they still remember Gen 2 SSDs and think "I know everything is faster now, but the technology must not have changed."
As a hybrid shooter (photographer and videographer) who has taken as many as 10,000 photos and a few hours of video in a day, it *might* make a difference when I am moving hundreds of gigs of files between working to archival drives. Except I am not a bellend (or at least not in this case) and instead of staring at my files transferring, I do something else. I might scroll a reel, go watch a movie, or basically anything other than watching the progress of the file transfer because its pretty stupid.
Great information, and thank you for being so intentional about teaching others.
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