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Samsung 980 PRO PCle 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD - 250GB $126.65, 500gb $208.25, 1TB $318.75 Delivered @ Samsung EPP/Education Store

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Stumbled on this NVME on the EPP site. Seems to be cheapest at the moment and even better if you can get your 1TB up to $350 and get the $50 sign up to get it down to $300

Form Factor : M.2 (2280)

Read : Up to 6,400 MB/s

Write : Up to 2,700 MB/s

Interface: NVMe 1.3c, PCIe Gen 4.0 x4

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  • +2

    Seems to be cheapest at the moment and even better if you can get the $50 sign up although 250gb might be a bit small for some.

    Minimum spend is $350 for the voucher

    • ah, didnt know that. Only ever used the voucher on things over that amount.

      I guess its still the cheapest but only by couple dollars. Can be removed

  • +3

    Those gains would wanna be noticeable to pay this much more then all the 2tb deals etc lately.

    • If the previous gen. (970) is any indication, I'm sure there will be noticeable difference…

      • First hand experience?

        Imo the jump to nvme over sata is noticeable, having had a high end nvme but I assume it's not amazingly noticeable for average user? Happy to be corrected.

      • -1

        In what tasks?

        These NVMe drives are nice, but deliver very little in terms of real world experience to very few scenarios.
        At best they might shave literally 2 seconds off load times in some games.

        Getting more of you game collection onto a much larger SSD will be a lot more beneficial than this tiny useless thing.

  • +4

    I have a Sabrent 4.0 and the 970 Evo 3.0 - and its a massive improvement for multimedia design - huge project sizes, textures and graphics.

    If I load up a game - no difference. If I boot up desktop - no difference.

    if you don't work on large scale productivity projects - its equivalent to burning money.

    • You're not wrong, however eventually DirectStorage (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directstorage-is-comi…) will utilize PCIe 4.0 and have a hopefully significant impact on asset loading in games.

      • This is exactly why I wanna get one! Waiting for directstorage

        • While you're waiting everyone else is getting immediate benefits from sensibly priced 2TB SSD's

          • @virtual81: I mean yea fair point but like if I'm building a pc, shouldn't I grab the gen 4 ssd? Coz like directstorage is probs gonna be here in less than a year

            • +1

              @Lance Miranda: Completely pointless.
              It will be here in a year…. in theory.
              Then how long until implemented, and how much of a real world befit in practice.

              Gen 4 SSD's aren't a whole lot faster than Gen 3 in practice.
              ~ 3.8GB/sec vs 6GB/s might seem like a big gap, but neither of those speeds are being leveraged at all currently.
              Currently a SATA SSD matches NVMe drives within 2 seconds on game load tests.
              That's a stat everyone loves to argue against and hate, but it's been proven time and again.
              That clearly means as far as game loading goes Gen 3 SSD's still have a massive amount of untapped potential.

              Me personally? I'd rather a larger Gen 3 drive that still has the massive potential at a lower cost than a Gen 4 drive.

              In other words, good Gen 3 drives are already massively under utilized for game loading, direct storage will unleash that.
              So put the money toward getting a drive you can put more games/apps on.

    • Thank you for your comment, this was really helpful!

  • +1

    FYI all sizes are currently back in stock at Samsung EPP. I just grabbed a 1TB drive

    • +1

      will edit title for the rest. Guess if you can get your order up to $350 you can get the $50 off with 1TB

      • 1Tb drives OOS already….didn't take long

  • its back on stock

  • 250, 500, IN STOCK
    1tb OOS as of now

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