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Posted 10 April 2018
Samsung 250GB 960 Evo M.2 SSD with Farcry 5 free - £108.95 @ Ebuyer
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Hi Guys, Here's one of the best ssd's on the market with the added bonus of a copy of Far cry 5. I've bought stuff like this from ebuyer before and often it takes them a few weeks to send you the game but they will eventually.
I can't comment on how good Far cry 5 is but it retails for £50 so it's a good deal.
I can't comment on how good Far cry 5 is but it retails for £50 so it's a good deal.
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sorted byYou don't understand what this is, do you?
what are you even on about.
In theory and on paper it seems a no brainer but in reality its a different story, check out this youtube video comparing NVME 960 EVO vs a regular crucial SATA SSD on load times: Samsung 960 Pro vs SATA SSD - game loading times tested
There is a fraction of a second difference not exactly worth the 2x price premium. Content creators dealing with 4k resolution footage in applications for Adobe Premiere is where that speed advantage is really taken advantage of, not in game load times scenarios.
Yeah, a 60GB game install wouldn't benefit at all from being on a drive that is 6 times faster.
very true, this is aimed at people on a smaller budget you use this as a boot drive and buy a £40 1tb hard drive to save on cash
I've just told you why it's not wasted for me. I can literally do tens of thousands of more queries per second.
With all due respect, you're not making any sense.
Makes sense then doesn't it.
Mate, you're just talking nonsense, please stop.
I've got an Evo 960 and a Polaris 981 - they both are capable of loading games significantly faster than my SATA SSD. Sure, some games have fixed delays in the load screens that you can't skip, so it might take you just the same time to get to the menu. But those that don't will fly through the loading. Elite Dangerous took ages to load on SATA, especially the shaders part. On Evo 960 it just loads at a blink. Counterstrike GO is no quicker at all, even loading from RAM drive (I tried) but Rainbow Six Siege loads probably 30 seconds quicker from Windows desktop to playing. It's a remarkable difference, same for Star Wars Battlefront. NVMe is worth is for GTA V alone.
I do not think you know at all about the advantages. Very little on a 250gb. No advantage at all on anything else related software ,window and games. It is all about sequential read/write and on a 250gb would be wasted. With same money better to buy a good 500gb. I got all my self but I am rich, the poorer will waste money and therefore is not suggested as a must have (edited)
My database queries say you're wrong. Nvme isn't "all about sequential read/write" - latency is just as important, and in many cases, more important. NVMe drives excel at this.
Uplay I think
what advantage you get??? none. Do you know something, I suggest you to download a ram disk drive and set up as a proper diskram obviously hoping that you got plenty ram otherwise try with a game that does not go over the max amount of the disk size. Install your favourite game on the diskram and see what benefits you get. None I think and despite the fact that ram is faster than lightspeed and 20 times faster than this product. Even a normal HHD would be fast for loading a game once is cached. Also you can test the disk ram with as ssd software or something else , it will tell you about the speeds and then you can compare with anything else.
Timing procedure for a game would be the same with anything you use with a difference of few seconds only but also even with an hhd will be the same once is cached. Also you use a slow SSD that came out 10 years ago or you use the latest, loading time to the desktop will be the same, obviously with a discrepancy of few second (edited)
Yes and no, it depends on the games. I use a FTB Minecraft build that uses 16 GB's of ram and it helps greatly with load times, I find the same with Civ 6 as well when loading custom massive maps that eat 6GB's of video card memory. Its all horses for course as you say though.
I even found World of Warcraft with a heavy mod set loads faster, mind you the install files for the game are now at 50GB's plus.
ID.OT, we are not at school and do not swear or I report you. Do not F............ read next time. I hope there are enough puntuactions here, sorry for forgetting that in my previous post. (edited)
More benefit for software than OS really, games take longer to load than Windows these days.
Anyway slightly cheaper at CCL £107.96 cclonline.com/pro…81/
Thanks
For all others, might be worth waiting a bit as WD is about to enter the market with NVMe drives that are close in performance and cost. I smell a possible price war coming, I think black Friday this year might see some good prices now that Samsung have some reasonable sized company for competition. Its expected that production on memory and flash will have increased by this point in the year so we will hopefully see some correction on prices from factory down. Fingers crossed by then Intel will have fixed Spectre and Meltdown issues at silicon level.
Actually it is about random accrss speeds
how boring!!!
Do Amazon sell this with the game?
yes but if it was a 10tb drive then it is convenient but for 250gb what you would need all of that speed for??it is completely wasted, I could understand if it was slightly more expensive than a normal ssd. That was mainly my point.
Saying so it is funny that people would rather saving a couple of pound to buy as an example a very slow U1 usb drive instead of an U3 which in reality makes the U3 a super bargain for the write speed advantage (edited)
like what, surely does not make sense at double the price of an ssd. you and me can afford it but it is not for everyone because in reality does not make sense on a 250gb and in most of the cases. It might make sense in your case but not in the 99% of cases. People is very confused here, they thing they go faster in the desktop or they can load a game faster which in not true at all. you not following the posts here and what I am talking about (edited)
No problem
I bought the 960, as my m.2 space was free.
I installed yesterday. The difference is noticeable. The 960 was £50 more than the 860 at the time, and to me it's worth it.
It's a question of priority. I do loads of things with my pc, it includes gaming. If I didn't have a 1080 graphic card already, I would have kept my money to upgrade the graphic card instead, considering how expensive they've become.
I'm glad I'm lucky enough to not have to choose.
Im sure it would give it a significant speed bump.
Looking to pay around £40 for it.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I don't think people take the time to posts properly.
there isn't a huge difference in boot times but you will have a big difference in games plus there's the advantage of having no cables in yout rig.
Only few second differents(25s vs 29s in a test i saw). Unless you edit 4K video or something, for majority of user/gamer, i would recommend getting a bigger capacity sata SSD drive instead,
you can see the test here