Great price on this NVMe. Free shipping too. Watch the PayPal fees if that's how you prefer to pay. Good deal if you are not an Ebay Plus member for the previous Samsung deal (https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/570002). First deal posted for me.
Western Digital Black SN750 NVMe M.2 SSD 1TB $209 + Free Shipping @ Shopping Express
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thats not ideal
Were you writing a lot of data to the SSD?
Damn it's so tempting, should I wait for further price reduction though, everyone is saying they will get cheaper
I want to buy the Samsung 980 pro to pair with my 3700x and rtx 3080, but it’s still too expensive now, you guys think the amazon prime day or Black Friday will do some discount on this new SSD?
there's no benefit in faster SSD for gaming right, I thought it was mainly for video editing and other similar task
Spinning hdd's should be relegated only to Network storage and should be nowhere near a modern PC
I meant like a Kingston A2000 vs WD SN750 vs Samsung 980 Pro, don't think you'll notice much difference in game
@ln28909: Yep, there is no difference for in-game performance. Even a SATA ssd will be indistinguishable from a top tier NVMe in basically all games.
It takes a pretty specialised workload to pick up any practical difference between an A2000 and a 980 Pro, and gaming is definitely not one of them.@jp1011: For now…
Once game developers start optimising their titles for next-gen consoles, all of which have 5GB/s+ PCIe 4.0 NVMe drives in them, SSD performance for games on PC will also start to become more and more important. If you're looking to buy a drive that's going to set you up for the next 3-5 years, and your mobo (+ wallet) supports it, I think higher speed PCIe SSDs (especially PCIe 4.0 ones) are a good investment, even for "gamers".
@joshau: Yea that’s what I thought, consider the next gen intel will also likely to support PCIE 4.0 and getting the 980 pro just feel a bit more future proof…I think the 980 pro will be the speed king for at least another two years…
@ozvictor: No doubt its a great drive, and if you can afford it and want it there's no reason not to.
My only consideration would be if the extra $200 or so (1TB 980pro vs A2000) is preventing you from upgrading other components? For example you would see a far greater improvement in gaming with a 10600K or Zen 3 CPU over the 3700x, than by upgrading the SSD.
Edit: Never mind, thought you were building from the ground up and didn't already have the 3700x.@jp1011: I was considering between the 970 evo plus (cheapest price currently on eBay is $203) and 980 pro $350, I will go for the 980 pro for around $150 more because I don’t want to upgrade ssd in the next 3-5 years so I think the $150 is worth for me. but I will wait another week as next week is amazon prime day, will see if they will have any discount. Really hope the 980 pro will go down to $300 then will be great value, it outperform all the PCIE gen 4 SSD with 7gb speed. Thanks for your advise!
@jp1011: I think this is such an understated point. Any future benefit you derive from a faster NVMe in the future will be negated by the benefit of that sum being put into a better graphics card (or possibly CPU or RAM).
Of course, it wouldn't apply to @ozvictor, one of the rare few in oz with an rtx 3080… ;)
for now its not necessary to have a gen4 or the super fast NVME SSD (gaming wise) but nvme style ssd would be great for boot drive and a normal SATA ssd is fine for your games library (Spinning drives i would stay away from to be honest), but in the future it will likely be important (to what extent we don't know), for instance the RTX 3xxx series have RTX IO, Which allows GPU to directly access SSD and bypass memory, same as consoles. So i would say the next gen games will utilise this on PC gaming as well.
I wouldn't get anything less than a fast NVMe now for gaming, the Xbox and PS5 have sort of set the standard and future games will sort of "expect" 1000MB+ read speeds stc
do you put a thermal pad on ssd?
Kingston A2000 is around $150. Which is better?
The SN750 Black and A2000 are in two different tiers. Objectively, the SN750 is significantly better, however subjectively better depends on what you're use case is.
The A2000 slows down when transferring huge files (~120GB+) in one go. Unless that is your usage, there's gonna be no perceivable difference between the two drives.
Should note also that people had been reporting BSOD issues with the A2000 specifically, but I believe its mostly fixed now and was related to using RGB software (Aura Sync, Gigabyte Fusion etc.) which can just be uninstalled.
i have been using this one for 2 months now and the health status is showing 99% on disk sentinel!