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<blockquote data-quote="Vasudev" data-source="post: 927208" data-attributes="member: 30411">Even then, SSD or NVMe wasn&#039;t viable tech for consumer. I had LGA 775 with HDD maxing out at 120MB/s seq. R/W(4k perf. 0.001MB/s R/W on CDM 1 or 2.x.) and RAM was still faster with 2x 2GB DDR2 800MHz dual channel which peaked at 8GB/s and migrating to DDR3L(Ivybridge) gave me improved memory speeds consuming 1.3V and faster clock freqs.I still feel Optane had better 4k R/W speeds which matters the most. Sure the OS first install and setting up environment is faster on Samsung PM1733 but is it faster at sustained 4k w/o using dynamic turboWrite or something; In other words, pseudo-SLC cache.Besides initial OS install times, speed difference becomes thin or not noticeable on either SATA/NVMe SSDs. Do note NVMe drive take longer time to POST in either AHCI/RAID and makes up for lost time by raw IO speed. I&#039;ve a delay of 5-10sec even with Crucial P1.Nice. My ambients are above 30-45C on avg so every 1C drop will improve 4k speeds.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vasudev, post: 927208, member: 30411"] Even then, SSD or NVMe wasn't viable tech for consumer. I had LGA 775 with HDD maxing out at 120MB/s seq. R/W(4k perf. 0.001MB/s R/W on CDM 1 or 2.x.) and RAM was still faster with 2x 2GB DDR2 800MHz dual channel which peaked at 8GB/s and migrating to DDR3L(Ivybridge) gave me improved memory speeds consuming 1.3V and faster clock freqs. I still feel Optane had better 4k R/W speeds which matters the most. Sure the OS first install and setting up environment is faster on Samsung PM1733 but is it faster at sustained 4k w/o using dynamic turboWrite or something; In other words, pseudo-SLC cache. Besides initial OS install times, speed difference becomes thin or not noticeable on either SATA/NVMe SSDs. Do note NVMe drive take longer time to POST in either AHCI/RAID and makes up for lost time by raw IO speed. I've a delay of 5-10sec even with Crucial P1. Nice. My ambients are above 30-45C on avg so every 1C drop will improve 4k speeds. [/QUOTE]

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