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turns out the answer is a resounding "No"
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for gaming probably not, but why wouldn't you? the price difference is usually minimal (I bought 1TB NVME for my /home directory for less than a SATA one would have cost me)
That is the critical part. Unless you are out of NVME slots why wouldn't you use them preferentially. Not only the fastest option, but takes up no space, and adds no cabling. NVME is win-win.
The lack of cabling is a major win for the OCD among us. Also nice for doing large builds. Most of the cables in a build are 1990s artifacts even though we put up with them today. Why can't we daisy chain fans and RGB in 2019?
Secondary effect (or maybe tertiary) is that everyone hopping on the NVMe bandwagon will help CPU makers justify why they're offering extra PCIe lanes. Intel's 10-series CPUs basically did exactly that: they enabled support for one more NVMe drive.
That said, I don't really know what I would do if I were planning a substantial build for 2020 that really relied on having the best storage performance. Would I go AMD for PCIe 4 (which was announced back in 2011, ratified in 2017) and get a moderate performance boost? Or would I take a gamble and wait on Intel under the assumption that they'll skip the already antiquated PCIe 4 and instead jump straight to PCI 5 (announced 2017, ratified 2019) for the real performance boost?
The price difference between NVMe and SATA SSDs is so small nowadays, there is no reason to buy SATA any more.
It usually takes a couple years to go from ratification to adoption. I wouldn't expect Gen 5 until 2021, at the earliest.
for gaming probably not, but why wouldn't you? the price difference is usually minimal (I bought 1TB NVME for my /home directory for less than a SATA one would have cost me)
but let me tell you, sure makes booting and every-day stuff feel blazing fast, and running a bunch of virtual machines and not feeling any kind of performance impact is pretty neat
Any real advantage when it comes to boot speeds? Seems like the motherboard BIOS takes the longest. I have the option for a faster boot, but if I ever want to change settings I would need to reset CMOS if I enable that.
It feels faster, could just be my imagination... but since I don't have any SATA drives I disabled all the controllers in the bios so it doesn't even try and auto-detect anything on boot, so maybe shaves a second or two off the bios screen? I am also not really taking full advantage of my nvme drives since my system only has pcie v2
That's not the main point though ... I have 3 SSD's and will be building a new rig on Monday and I didn't know if a NVMe drive would make a difference now that I'll have one M.2 slot available. Turns out I saved $90 buy watching that video. Anyone who now says "it's only $90" can have my paypal or Venmo ID and you can send me $90 ...
He wasn't saying the premium is $90, but rather that he doesn't feel that it's necessary to buy an additional drive because he already has some SATA ssds.In what case is the NVME premium $90?