diffrence between speeds of ssd

Jul 24, 2018
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How big is the diffrence in day to day use between ssd that has write speed of around 800mb/s and read around 1000mb/s and ssd that has read speeds around 500 mb/s and write speeds around 430mb/s ?
 
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To get 1000Mb/s you have to have an NVMe disk. 500Mb/s is a SATA drive. The difference will depend on how fast the rest of the system is and what you are doing with the disks. A Celleron CPU could be in a motherboard that would support an NVMe disk but the difference might be lost in the lower performance CPU. The fastest CPU could be limited because you only bought 4GB RAM.

Real world performance, not a lot for most people. If you are doing video rendering or lots of VMs, then you could see significant performance improvements.

kanewolf

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To get 1000Mb/s you have to have an NVMe disk. 500Mb/s is a SATA drive. The difference will depend on how fast the rest of the system is and what you are doing with the disks. A Celleron CPU could be in a motherboard that would support an NVMe disk but the difference might be lost in the lower performance CPU. The fastest CPU could be limited because you only bought 4GB RAM.

Real world performance, not a lot for most people. If you are doing video rendering or lots of VMs, then you could see significant performance improvements.
 
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TJ Hooker

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To get the max speeds listed in the SSD specs you typically need to be doing large sequential transfers at high queue depths, something which basically never happens during regular desktop use. Other than shaving a few seconds off boot time, or looking good in benchmarks, you won't notice any difference for stuff like gaming, regular desktop use, etc.