870 EVO

Respectfully, in the real world he may only see 1-2% of a performance loss with the gpu with PCIE3. For storage SATA SSDs are arguably more than fast enough for the vast majority of games to where there is pretty much no difference between a NVME or SATA and more than fast enough for anything else o

Yo ya me estoy pasando a SSD cuando puedo. Hasta un SATA, que ya es tecnología vieja comparada con NVMe, son mucho más rápidos. Sí, los discos duros pegan tirones en casi todo, a menos que sea mundial de viejo el software. Si podés, comprate un SSD SATA que sea TLC (no QLC, que esos son lentos) onda

I think the 870 Evo is 2.5" sata drive, tops at abt 550MB/s. But still fucking expensive than an nvme of the same capacity. 😖

Ext4 is faster. Maybe, maybe not, as usual "it depends". There are those who specifically seek out ZFS for its performance advantages in certain workloads and hardware configurations that Ext4 just cannot do. https://www.saturnme.com/zfs-vs-ext4-a-comprehensive-comparison/ This is not a fair compari

Yes, for sure! I daily drive a unibody 2012 13” dual core i5. I have upgraded it to 16GB RAM, 500GB Samsung 870 EVO SSD, and a new battery. Updated to Ventura via OCLP and runs SHOCKINGLY well. Like seriously, it’s still damn fast and good at multitasking with relatively heavy stuff.

Thanks so much for replying. I prefer the performance of SSD too. But the price of SSDs has exploded recently. For example, on Amazon In February 2026, the Samsung 870 EVO 1TB SSD price fluctuated between $103.99 and $179.99. The current price is $449.99. The Seagate 1 TB surveillance rated HDD can

Before giving up on those cards, you should consider re-pasting the heatsinks. I still have a 1080ti chugging away that needed re-pasting a few years back. As far as the Threadripper bottlenecking, you could just get the card an see what happens. Usually, once everything is shoved to your GPU there

Not trying to be that guy, but this post aged like milk. Microcenter is currently selling only one SATA SSD model: https://www.microcenter.com/product/709397/samsung-870-evo-8tb-ssd-tlc-v-nand-sata-iii-6gb-s-25-internal-solid-state-drive 8TB $4139.995-7 days to ship. These use the same components as

maybe a drive issue? I'm on a samsung 870 evo (external) and my game loads SUPER fast

I’m running a 1st gen i7-875K overclocked to 4Ghz, 16GB Kingston Fury DDR3 1600MHz CL10, EVGA GTX 980 TI SC, Samsung 870 Evo SSD and I get 7.6. Not too concerned as it’s plenty fast and runs every game from that era on max settings. In your case, maybe try overclocking to get that additional .1 you’