NVMe front-end SSD

[garfield]

Hello:

Starting from the basis that it has nothing to do, the issue is more about whether in normal use for a PC in design and some game like Fortnite, it would be better to go for NVMe with a capacity of 250MB, or go for an SSD of 500MB and save about 20€, and on top of that, I gain double the space.
That being said, I have tried both, never with an NVMe like Samsung G970, but a Crucial 2280 of 256 and an 840 Pro of the same capacity. I have read several tests, and in all of them it says that the increase in performance is not noticeable compared to an SSD, but empirically, it tells me that it should be noticeable.
so SSD or NVMe

[kynes]

I'll tell you about my experience. I went from a Samsung 840 Evo 256GB SATA to a 960 Evo 512GB NVMe. There's a big difference in synthetic tests, but I barely notice an improvement in normal day-to-day use.

[garfield]

That is the huge doubt that assails me. In synthetics it seems like it is milk, but then in daily use, you won't even notice it.
Let's see if anyone else has noticed it.

[Namiga]

I have a friend who works in audiovisual and uses machines with Samsung NVME in RAID 0... he says the difference is only noticeable with really big files... and that in day-to-day use you don't notice anything

[garfield]

Well, in the end I got a 970 evo and a SA1000 from Kinston for two computers, to test them on two PCs, one for work and another for home. I bought them because an SSD V300 from a PC at work broke, the one that is in charge of preparing the files for printing, which are usually large. Imagine that 5 days a week. It's a matter of very beastly read/write operations on the disk, similar to video editing.
I use Corel and Illustrator on both, to see if the improvement is noticeable. I will test them on two identical computers, so we will see if it really makes a difference, or if the SSD is still sufficient for everything. I think the m.2 are interesting for mATX computers, so as not to take up space in a small case.
We will see next week how it goes. We will keep you posted.

[garfield]

Finally I have been able to get my hands on the Kingston. Today I installed Windows and the design programs. As I have not touched the other SSD, I am going to see what tests I can run on it, to see if there is any improvement. All on a Ryzen 2700x. Let's see if I have time this week.
But the question is:
What test can I run on these drives to see real performance?

Regards

[kynes]

@garfield said in Nvme frentre SSD:

Finally I was able to get my hands on the kingston. Today I installed windows and the design programs. Since I haven't touched the other ssd, I'm going to see what tests I can run on it, to see if there's any improvement. All on a ryzen 2700x. I wonder if I'll have time this week.
But the question is:
What test can I run on these drives to see real performance?
Regards

I think the biggest difference you'll notice would be when opening programs like photoshop or similar ones, which have to access a large number of different files of moderate to large size.

If you work with content creation programs like autocad, 3dmax or similar, when opening very large files, I can't think of many applications where you have to read or write gigabytes of data in a few seconds. Maybe a 7zip to generate an uncompressed file (to avoid micro limitations) from a large directory with a large number of different files.