Yet another SSD Question. Amazon have the 256GB Intel 600P for ~£88, provided you're willing to wait a couple of weeks for it... ...but is it worth it? I know it's not the cream of the NVMe crop, but given some of the equivalently sized SATA SSDs are around the same price now, I wonder if it's worth grabbing one... or would i bet better served pushing the boat out for a Samsung 960. TL-DR - A 256GB Intel 600P for £88, bargain or bollocks...
Nothing wrong with it IMO. Writes are a bit crumby but reads are excellent.] I've got a feeling SSDs are coming back down in price. I saw a 480gb Tosh thing the other day for £110. I paid £130 before the hike for the same drive pretty much.
The 600P is great and bad at the same time, if you can get it for the price of a M.2 Sata speed drive its great, any more than that and its not worth it.
This. It's no slower than a decent Sata SSD, but at the same time it's not really any faster in real-world use. If you can get it cheap, do it. But personally I would save a little more and get a Sammy 960 and reap the actual benefits of nVME.
I'll be honest, I have an NVMe SSD and a SATA 2.5" SSD (500GB 960 EVO and 500GB 850 EVO) and I can't tell the difference between them in real world use. It may depend on your specific use case, but for me they are basically indistinguishable.
I have the 600p and can't find anything wrong with it, read about slow write speeds but can't say I've noticed
Same setup as me (except I have a 250GB 960), and you're right - absolutely no noticeable difference... Nothing like the transition from mechanical to solid drive! For me it was a convenience thing, it's 2 less cables, and 1 less wallet sized thing to find a home for. If future Windows/Steam/Chrome updates start to actually make use of all the extra bandwidth, I'm ready.
So I went for this as part of a bigger PC upgrade, and it still has yet to be dispatched. This is the last time I preorder anything through Amazon. Still, it'll be a nice deal if it arrives in the next couple of months. I need to cling to this thought!
Resurrecting the thread to let people know it's listed for just over £80 at the moment! Seems like a cracking deal. My delivery estimate is now 1-11 August, but hard to know if they'll fulfil on new orders.
