>2016
>he STILL doesn't have an NVMe SSD
what are you, poor?
There's literally no point. If I wanted uber fast storage I'd just buy more RAM and create a RAM disc with write speeds of 10-40GB/s
I got 1 256gb
Nigger sell me 1 for $10
>>54976463
I'm just waiting for Samsung's 48-layer nand.
>>54976491
>calling ssd's "hard drive"
>not knowing that ssd's have a life expectancy of 10 to 20 years
also, unlike hdd's, incase an ssd dies it won't lose any data but become read only instead, giving you enough time to backup the shit you haven't backed up yet. hhd's just lose everything when they die.
>>54976482
I have a 250GB 950 Pro M.2 NVMe drive cause I was building a new rig and my motherboard has an M.2 Slot that supports 4x PCIe 3.0 bandwidth, even if I wont use it. It's nice to have.
But yeah, my RAMDisk is much faster.
>>54976463
This is how you tell yourself that your life is improving? You spend money you make on new technology? I'm not poor, I have a lot of money and save a lot more by not constantly investing in technology.
>>54976491
What's your opinion on pissphone? There seem to be mixed conflicting reports whether he did in fact piss on his iPhone.
>>54976515
>10 to 20 years
More like 187 years.
>>54976491
>840 evo still going strong on its fourth year
???
>>54976463
Yes, I'm poor.
>>54976463
Yes, I'm poor.
>>54976555
No you're not. If you can at least afford a $100 Android phone and have a home to sleep in then you're not poor.
>>54976595
I can't afford a 100$ phone (#lifeofastudent)
>>54976516
How large of a ram disk are you using? What do you actually put on it? Im considering getting 64gb of ram with my next build and making a 48gb ram disk. But I'm not really sure wtf I would do with it.
>>54976641
Well that benchmark was done using an empty 8GB RAMDisk of DDR4 3200MHz CAS 16
I normally just have a 4GB RAMDisk for browser cache and temporary internet files.
RAMDisk wouldnt help much with my actual work which is encoding.
>>54976463
You do know you're on g, right?
>>54976463
NVMe drives are a waste of PCIe lanes. Nobody needs to access their porn movies at 900MB/s.
>>54976696
Could it be used as an alternative to ssd caching then? Also, what would be a good capacity ratio for ssd caching?
>tfw now want ram disk cached ssd just because.
>>54977510
> waste of PCIe lanes
What else are you going to use them for?
>>54977546
Muh vidya cards
>>54976463
Unless you're using it in a server it's a waste of money. Desktops hardly see queue depths past 1.
>>54976641
If you're good with Linux you could chain load windows into it.
I sort of want to get one just because it uses no cables. I'll wait until I can get 500gb to 1tb for less than $200 though.
>>54977556
>wants to keep PCIe lanes free for gaming
>doesn't realize games benefit a lot from faster read speeds and that most modern motherboards/processors can handle a GPU and an m.2 drive
>>54977586
An i7 has 20 pcie Lane. It can actually handle 2 gpus and an m.2 drive. Also anything running on lga 2011 has at least 40 pcie lanes. I don't know how people think 4 lanes is going to hurt them.
>>54976542
anon thats 18,7
>>54977667
>Also anything running on lga 2011 has at least 40 pcie lanes
I have a 5820k it has 28PCI-e 3.0 lanes provided by the CPU and another 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes provided by the X99 chipset itself.
That's more than enough for 2 GPUs and an M.2 SSD. And still leaving a bit to spare for other potential PCIe devices.
Yes, yes I am
>>54977546
I dunno, SATA or RAID cards maybe? Either way, M.2 is fucking stupid, if I needed a drive that fast I'd get a RAM disk, not Samsung's retardedly hot 950 pro.
>>54977688
Look again
>>54976463
Yes.
>>54977819
>M.2 is fucking stupid
Storage is already being bottlenecked by SATA. If you want to get all of your money's worth out of an SSD, m.2 is the future. Just because Samsung put out a really hot SSD doesn't make the connector it uses DOA.
>>54977848
Not to mention the 950 pro only overheats in large workloads which I would be willing to wager $50 you'll never see in your day to day use.
>>54977928
If you actually use the damn thing as a M.2 drive, it WILL overheat, if you use it like you would a SATA drive it'll be fine though.
>>54978153
LOL no one on here is going to be able to fully use the 950 pro, there are probably a few dozen of the several thousand visitors to g who would actually see a real significant difference. For everyone else it's just a luxury and you might see a couple seconds saved here or there when doing the occasional large file transfer or similar.
Which again is why I said almost no one on here would ever see it overheat anyway.
Btw I own one
>>54976463
My Z77 board doesn't support NVMe. Also I don't see any reason ro change my 850 Pros.
I'm going to buy 2 1080Tis instead of wasting money on a new platform which only gets me 6 cores.
>Not wasting even more for overpriced 40-lane or Octacore
My 2 Mbit connection cant download faster than my Ivy i7 converts it. I cant make use of more conversion speed.
>>54977824
>>54977688
Hurr there's two rows
>>54976463
I refuse to buy some shitty m.2 stick that will thermally throttle in seconds under heavy load, and not enough u.2 mobos are out yet.
>>54977696
Really? I thought it had 40.. The 3820 does. But maybe it's not all pcie 3. But yeah, 28 is still plenty. Can't wait to get my e5-2667 system built though.
>>54978994
Oh yeah it's only pcie 2. Probably a bandwidth limitation in the scaling. Or they sacrificed pcie lanes for memory bandwidth instead. Dunno, most people will never utilize all of it anyways.
>>54978994
They had to give SOME reason to buy the 5930k. So the 5930k has 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes and the 5820k has 28. Besides that they're the same silicon.
>>54976463
SSD's are memes, i dont fall for memes.
10,000 RPM master race here
If I have to use a PCIe adapter can I make it my boot drive?
>>54979082
There is always that as well. Can't rightly justify double the price for 2 more cores
>>54976463
I have 2 in raid0 but I'm away from home. Will post crystal diskmark later
