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So the Samsung 850 Evo has been around for quite some time now.
And at the moment we're at the dawn of a new SSD era - NVMe to the masses.
Because of this, M.2 NVMe cards are slowly getting more and more affordable, but it's especially noticable that the SATA SSD market is slowing down with very few new products coming out here.
Recently we had the new Samsung 960 Evo & Pro being released, but by doing some research you quickly come to the conclusion that there will probably not be any Samsung 860-series for a while (there are some speculations though that there may be an 850 v2).
This is understandable - why bother releasing new SATA SSD's at the dawn of the new SSD era, the manufacturers are probably more interested in people getting an NVMe SSD instead of a SATA SSD when it's time for an upgrade by various reasons (such as little lifetime left on the device).
This causes a dilemma in my case.
On the one hand I have the very affordable yet maximized (for being a SATA SSD) 850 Evo - but I have the feeling that this device will become obsolete in just a year or two.
However it does its job for gaming and basic media editing with no bottlenecks at the moment... but is it futureproof? How long will it take before it actually becomes a bottleneck, perhaps to a sudden performance jump in newer CPU models and such?
On the other hand we have the 960 Evo - this one will do its job for a long, long time with no bottlenecks for the previously mentioned usage as it's actually slightly overkill for the masses at the moment... but it's kinda expensive for a regular dude like me.
Which one should I get in your opinion? Should I get the affordable 850 Evo, or the futureproof 960 Evo? Does the 960 have an as good or better lifetime as the 850 (I mean if the NVMe SSD's currently have lower lifetime than SATA SSD's then there isn't much futureproofing there is it)?
Samsung 850 Evo 1 TB - $350-$380 in my country
Samsung 960 Evo 1 TB - $510-$550 in my country
There's still a lot of demand on the 850 Evo, to such degree that it's actually hard to get at the moment as it's constantly sold out - this means there's no way it will drop in price.
Also, it need to be 1 TB of SSD storage for me.
You see my build in my sig if it's helpful.
And at the moment we're at the dawn of a new SSD era - NVMe to the masses.
Because of this, M.2 NVMe cards are slowly getting more and more affordable, but it's especially noticable that the SATA SSD market is slowing down with very few new products coming out here.
Recently we had the new Samsung 960 Evo & Pro being released, but by doing some research you quickly come to the conclusion that there will probably not be any Samsung 860-series for a while (there are some speculations though that there may be an 850 v2).
This is understandable - why bother releasing new SATA SSD's at the dawn of the new SSD era, the manufacturers are probably more interested in people getting an NVMe SSD instead of a SATA SSD when it's time for an upgrade by various reasons (such as little lifetime left on the device).
This causes a dilemma in my case.
On the one hand I have the very affordable yet maximized (for being a SATA SSD) 850 Evo - but I have the feeling that this device will become obsolete in just a year or two.
However it does its job for gaming and basic media editing with no bottlenecks at the moment... but is it futureproof? How long will it take before it actually becomes a bottleneck, perhaps to a sudden performance jump in newer CPU models and such?
On the other hand we have the 960 Evo - this one will do its job for a long, long time with no bottlenecks for the previously mentioned usage as it's actually slightly overkill for the masses at the moment... but it's kinda expensive for a regular dude like me.
Which one should I get in your opinion? Should I get the affordable 850 Evo, or the futureproof 960 Evo? Does the 960 have an as good or better lifetime as the 850 (I mean if the NVMe SSD's currently have lower lifetime than SATA SSD's then there isn't much futureproofing there is it)?
Samsung 850 Evo 1 TB - $350-$380 in my country
Samsung 960 Evo 1 TB - $510-$550 in my country
There's still a lot of demand on the 850 Evo, to such degree that it's actually hard to get at the moment as it's constantly sold out - this means there's no way it will drop in price.
Also, it need to be 1 TB of SSD storage for me.
You see my build in my sig if it's helpful.
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