Subj : Re: NVMe versus SATA in desktops?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : fusion
Date : Tue Jul 11 2023 07:33 pm

On 11 Jul 2023, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...
 
 pF> The one question I was hoping to get was some real world comparison of
 pF> SATA versus NVMe in desktops. I'd like to get a system that has NVMe
 pF> since it seems like everything's going that way and I'd hate it if I
 pF> ended up being limited by SATA in a couple of years. Does anyone have

SATA SSDs might as well be spinning drives compared to NVMe. 100% the only reason you would buy SATA SSDs is because you've used (both) the NVMe slot(s) on your mobo.

i bought an NVMe along with my first ryzen 7 in 2017 and that one is /still/ faster than the SSDs they sell today because of that giant SATA bottleneck.

this is only going to get worse for SATA because as of now the future plan is a NVMe->GPU direct pipeline, and 10gbit networking is already 2x what a sata ssd can keep up with.. hell 2.5gbit might even be pushing it if your drive is pretty full.

i sound a bit like a zealot but it really is awesome. and significantly cheaper than when i first got into it.

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