A great upgrade option for old machines and new builds alike.
This makes it an awesome choice for a cheap PC or laptop upgrade, offering a big improvement in access times, sequential speeds and random speeds compared to SATA SSDs which top out at 550MB/s. The Samsung 980, by comparison, is rated for up to 3500MB/s reads in its 1TB configuration, nearly five times faster. The difference in game load times isn’t quite that much, but it’s still a noticeable improvement… and with more DirectStorage games on the horizon that can better take advantage of these higher speeds, ensuring your OS and game storage is on NVMe should pay dividends.
1TB is also a great amount of storage space for your OS, media and games too, so it’s worth considering an upgrade for any machines you may have that can take an NVMe drive but are hobbled with smaller 250GB or 500GB drives.
For more information on the Samsung 980, check out ourSamsung 980 review- just bare in mind that the prices have changed substantially since then! We also have a lovely roundup of thebest gaming SSDswhich might be worth reading through too.
Thanks for joining me and I’ll see you again later tonight with another PC deal!
