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SATA or NVMe Drive In New Computer

Sep 11, 2018 2:49PM PDT

I'm looking at buying this computer. They offer it with different disk drive options. According to the item's description SATA maxes out at 550 MB/s while the NVMe maxes out at 3,200 MB/s. So is it worth the extra money? I plan on replacing the HDD with an SSD eventually. Does that matter?

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Disk
Sep 11, 2018 9:45PM PDT

Unless your running some very disk intense stuff or like to run benchmarks I doubt you will see a difference.

After the warranty runs out ask yourself if you need a TB of storage space.

If the answer is no then consider a simple one 500GB ssd setup.

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Those are theoretical speeds.
Sep 12, 2018 7:24AM PDT

I've yet to find a drive hit those numbers. Even when it's in a short burst. My answer is you won't see the difference.

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Manufacturer input
Sep 19, 2018 2:17PM PDT

The common consensus on SATA SSDs and NVMe ones is that, for most common uses, unless you're doing heavy video editing and/or regularly moving around massive files, the difference between the two is negligible for the price difference. It helps to think about the speeds this way:

HDD: +++
SATA SSD: ++++++++++
NVMe SSD: +++++++++++

In essence, for most uses, the gap between SATA SSD and NVMe is much, much smaller than the gap between HDD and SATA SSD.