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SATA 3.2 or nvme for an SSD?
Everybody seems to be getting excited about the nvme interface SSDs on M2 connectors. And everybody says they're so much faster than SATA 3 which is limited to 6Gbps. But it isn't. SATA 3.2 came out years ago and it's 16Gb/s. So is there any point in buying an M2 shaped SSD? I can't find any sensible comparisons online anywhere.
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SATA 3.2 or nvme for an SSD?
In article , Jimmy Wilkinson Knife
wrote: Everybody seems to be getting excited about the nvme interface SSDs on M2 connectors. And everybody says they're so much faster than SATA 3 which is limited to 6Gbps. they are *much* faster, around 5x that speed, sometimes more. sata is a bottleneck. But it isn't. SATA 3.2 came out years ago and it's 16Gb/s. good luck finding a logic board *and* a drive that uses it. So is there any point in buying an M2 shaped SSD? I can't find any sensible comparisons online anywhere. yes, and there are plenty of comparisons. |
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SATA 3.2 or nvme for an SSD?
On Tue, 15 May 2018 21:14:59 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote: Everybody seems to be getting excited about the nvme interface SSDs on M2 connectors. And everybody says they're so much faster than SATA 3 which is limited to 6Gbps. But it isn't. SATA 3.2 came out years ago and it's 16Gb/s. So is there any point in buying an M2 shaped SSD? I can't find any sensible comparisons online anywhere. I know you're mostly asking about a performance comparison, but one of the things I like about m.2 is its smaller form factor. My newest laptop has dual 2.5" drive bays, but Bay 0 can take two m.2 drives, so I have a 256GB NVMe and a 500GB NVMe drive in Bay 0 and a 1TB regular SSD in Bay 1. |
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SATA 3.2 or nvme for an SSD?
On Tue, 15 May 2018 21:49:24 +0100, Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2018 21:14:59 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote: Everybody seems to be getting excited about the nvme interface SSDs on M2 connectors. And everybody says they're so much faster than SATA 3 which is limited to 6Gbps. But it isn't. SATA 3.2 came out years ago and it's 16Gb/s. So is there any point in buying an M2 shaped SSD? I can't find any sensible comparisons online anywhere. I know you're mostly asking about a performance comparison, but one of the things I like about m.2 is its smaller form factor. My newest laptop has dual 2.5" drive bays, but Bay 0 can take two m.2 drives, so I have a 256GB NVMe and a 500GB NVMe drive in Bay 0 and a 1TB regular SSD in Bay 1. Just desktops I was considering, so size isn't a problem. -- "The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire." |
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SATA 3.2 or nvme for an SSD?
On Tue, 15 May 2018 21:14:59 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote: Everybody seems to be getting excited about the nvme interface SSDs on M2 connectors. m.2 is a HUGE amount faster, and is the future. Don't know WHERE you heard that Sata 3.2 is 16 MBPS, but that's simply bull****. And m.2 on PCIE x4 is WAY faster than SATA of any kind. |
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SATA 3.2 or nvme for an SSD?
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wrote: Everybody seems to be getting excited about the nvme interface SSDs on M2 connectors. m.2 is a HUGE amount faster, and is the future. until something better is created. Don't know WHERE you heard that Sata 3.2 is 16 MBPS, but that's simply bull****. it's a 'promise'. except it's too little, too late. https://www.bit-tech.net/news/tech/storage/sata-32/1/ SATA-IO, the industry group behind the Serial ATA standard, has formally released the SATA 3.2 specification with the promise of boosting transfer rates as high as 16Gb/s in future devices. And m.2 on PCIE x4 is WAY faster than SATA of any kind. yep. technology moves forward. |
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SATA 3.2 or nvme for an SSD?
On Tue, 15 May 2018 21:52:15 +0100, wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2018 21:14:59 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote: Everybody seems to be getting excited about the nvme interface SSDs on M2 connectors. m.2 is a HUGE amount faster, and is the future. Don't know WHERE you heard that Sata 3.2 is 16 MBPS, but that's simply bull****. Wikipedia. Bit-tech.net Techreport.com Anywhere really. And m.2 on PCIE x4 is WAY faster than SATA of any kind. It's 32GBits/s, so only twice as fast as SATA 3.2 And I don't think SSDs internally go faster than 16 yet anyway. -- "The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire." |
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SATA 3.2 or nvme for an SSD?
In article , Jimmy Wilkinson Knife
wrote: And m.2 on PCIE x4 is WAY faster than SATA of any kind. It's 32GBits/s, sometimes more. so only twice as fast as SATA 3.2 which only exists on paper. And I don't think SSDs internally go faster than 16 yet anyway. they do. |
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SATA 3.2 or nvme for an SSD?
On Tue, 15 May 2018 22:05:11 +0100, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2018 21:52:15 +0100, wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2018 21:14:59 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote: Everybody seems to be getting excited about the nvme interface SSDs on M2 connectors. m.2 is a HUGE amount faster, and is the future. Don't know WHERE you heard that Sata 3.2 is 16 MBPS, but that's simply bull****. Wikipedia. Bit-tech.net Techreport.com Anywhere really. And m.2 on PCIE x4 is WAY faster than SATA of any kind. It's 32GBits/s, so only twice as fast as SATA 3.2 And I don't think SSDs internally go faster than 16 yet anyway. Just looked up a Samsung 960 Pro SSD, which is a lot faster. Crucial don't seem to do nvme, and I've always used Crucial for reliability after having 50% of OCZ drives fail. But there's no reason they can't use SATA 3.2 for fast SSDs. -- The world record for a talking bird is 1728 words by a budgerigar named Puck, having the same vocabulary as an estate agent. |
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SATA 3.2 or nvme for an SSD?
On Tue, 15 May 2018 23:18:13 +0100, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2018 22:05:11 +0100, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2018 21:52:15 +0100, wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2018 21:14:59 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote: Everybody seems to be getting excited about the nvme interface SSDs on M2 connectors. m.2 is a HUGE amount faster, and is the future. Don't know WHERE you heard that Sata 3.2 is 16 MBPS, but that's simply bull****. Wikipedia. Bit-tech.net Techreport.com Anywhere really. And m.2 on PCIE x4 is WAY faster than SATA of any kind. It's 32GBits/s, so only twice as fast as SATA 3.2 And I don't think SSDs internally go faster than 16 yet anyway. Just looked up a Samsung 960 Pro SSD, which is a lot faster. Crucial don't seem to do nvme, and I've always used Crucial for reliability after having 50% of OCZ drives fail. But there's no reason they can't use SATA 3.2 for fast SSDs. Blisteringly expensive aswell as blisteringly fast though. 500GB Samsung nvme SSD is £250, the Crucial SATA3 SSD is only £100. I think I'd rather have more SSD capacity (instead of hard disk) than spend that money speeding up the already fast SSD. -- Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them. |
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SATA 3.2 or nvme for an SSD?
In article , Jimmy Wilkinson Knife
wrote: Just looked up a Samsung 960 Pro SSD, which is a lot faster. Crucial don't seem to do nvme, micron, their parent company, does: https://www.micron.com/products/soli...terfaces/nvme- ssds#/ and I've always used Crucial for reliability after having 50% of OCZ drives fail. But there's no reason they can't use SATA 3.2 for fast SSDs. other than there's zero market for it, you mean? |
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SATA 3.2 or nvme for an SSD?
On 5/15/2018 6:18 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
Just looked up a Samsung 960 Pro SSD, which is a lot faster. Crucial don't seem to do nvme, and I've always used Crucial for reliability after having 50% of OCZ drives fail. But there's no reason they can't use SATA 3.2 for fast SSDs. On M.2 attachments, you can have either SATA or NVMe drives. Slightly different keyings, but they both fit in the same slot though. One is called a B-key (SATA) and the other is an M-key (NVMe). An M.2 B-key has the same speed as a SATA SSD, and in fact it uses the SATA protocol too. The M.2 M-key uses the newer NVMe protocol, which allows it to operate twice as fast as a SATA or B-key drive. So many mfg's even if they are using an M.2 interface, they are probably using the SATA software interface, so it's not going to be any better than a SATA SSD. Samsung makes some of the best M-key/NVMe drives, which really show off their value proposition over standard SATA drives which are bottlenecked by the SATA interface. Yousuf Khan |
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SATA 3.2 or nvme for an SSD?
On Mon, 28 May 2018 00:26:46 +0100, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 5/15/2018 6:18 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Just looked up a Samsung 960 Pro SSD, which is a lot faster. Crucial don't seem to do nvme, and I've always used Crucial for reliability after having 50% of OCZ drives fail. But there's no reason they can't use SATA 3.2 for fast SSDs. On M.2 attachments, you can have either SATA or NVMe drives. Slightly different keyings, but they both fit in the same slot though. One is called a B-key (SATA) and the other is an M-key (NVMe). An M.2 B-key has the same speed as a SATA SSD, and in fact it uses the SATA protocol too. The M.2 M-key uses the newer NVMe protocol, which allows it to operate twice as fast as a SATA or B-key drive. So many mfg's even if they are using an M.2 interface, they are probably using the SATA software interface, so it's not going to be any better than a SATA SSD. Samsung makes some of the best M-key/NVMe drives, which really show off their value proposition over standard SATA drives which are bottlenecked by the SATA interface. But the SATA is NOT bottlenecked if they'd just use SATA 3.2 (emphasis on the .2). And nvme drives are damn expensive. -- "TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 Degrees." "Centre, we are at 35,000 feet. How much noise can we make up here?" "Sir, have you ever heard the noise a 747 makes when it hits a 727?" |
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SATA 3.2 or nvme for an SSD?
Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
Everybody seems to be getting excited about the nvme interface SSDs on M2 connectors. And everybody says they're so much faster than SATA 3 which is limited to 6Gbps. But it isn't. SATA 3.2 came out years ago and it's 16Gb/s. So is there any point in buying an M2 shaped SSD? I can't find any sensible comparisons online anywhere. I can give you a simple metric for comparison. NVMe uses four lanes. SATA uses one lane (for the regular flavor). All of these technologies borrow ideas from one another. As the rates go skyward, the ideas transfer from one standard to another. But it's the lane count that decides which one ultimately has the highest rate. For example, PCIe Rev.4 is coming out soon, which could, potentially, make an NVMe double in speed. There's a Samsung NVMe that does around 2.5GB/sec. And the reason it stops there, is PCI Express has a buffer dependency, and the chipset doesn't use big enough buffers. The wiring supports ~4GB/sec, the buffers, not so much. What even comes close, as a competitor ? AFAIK, NVMe is winning right now. If a storage tech comes along that used 8 lanes to connect to the motherboard, then it will be the next winner. ******* How fast does my software go ? 1) Naively written program written by home user: 300MB/sec 2) HxD hex editor, when searching for a string: 600MB/sec 2) 7ZIP CRC32 right-click checker: 1500MB/sec What this means is, there's really no consumer that I know of, that uses the 2500MB/sec the Samsung gives. Regular SATA covers "regular" programs, the ones that aren't particularly optimized for any purpose. So while the fanbois love their NVMe and "let me RAID0 that for you", there aren't a lot of other bits in the computer that put the speed to good usage. Even an Areca RAID controller, probably delivers around 2GB/sec. So RAIDing hard drives isn't the answer. Connecting only four SATA III SSDs would saturate the engine. And anything faster than that, is probably too expensive to own :-) There's all sorts of tech out there... that has absolutely no presence on the web at all. Black technology belonging to three letter government agencies. I got a view of such a piece of gear at a storage conference (it wasn't particularly classified, and was more of a stage prop kind of thing), and even if I don't know what's current, I know they have better stuff than we do :-) Perhaps doing some research on CERN and their Internet 2 storage schemes, would give some idea what more bleeding edge stuff looks like. Summary: Do the lane count, decide who is the (eventual) winner Paul |
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SATA 3.2 or nvme for an SSD?
In article , Paul
wrote: What even comes close, as a competitor ? AFAIK, NVMe is winning right now. has won. sata 3.2, aka sata express, is stillborn. If a storage tech comes along that used 8 lanes to connect to the motherboard, then it will be the next winner. https://www.anandtech.com/show/10125...ie-x16-ssd-cap able-of-10gbs At the Open Compute Project Summit this week in San Jose, Seagate will show off a pair of upcoming enterprise NVMe SSDs with impressive throughput specifications. The drives will have PCIe x16 and x8 interfaces and provide maximum throughput of 10GB/s and 6.7GB/s respectively. Seagate has provided few details so far, but it's safe to say those numbers are peak sequential read speeds. |
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