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Benchmarking old vs new: the 10 year old drive beat my brand new one in a real boot test
I spent last Friday swapping drives in my own rig to see if the hype was real. My 2013 Samsung SSD booted Windows in 22 seconds flat. The new NVMe I got for $80 took 19 seconds, so yeah it won, but not by the margin everyone claims. But the real shocker was file transfers, the old SATA drive choked at 450 MB/s while the NVMe hit 2.1 GB/s. So if you're only doing light office work, that cheap upgrade might not be worth the hassle. Has anyone else run a comparison like this and found the older gear holding up way better than expected?
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oliver_wilson21d ago
Ran into the same thing last year when I moved my old Crucial MX500 into a spare bay just to have a second Windows install. Boot times were within a couple seconds of the new drive and for web browsing and email you would never know the difference. The gap only shows up when you move big files or load huge games, and that is where the NVMe earns its keep. For most folks doing basic stuff, the money is better spent on more RAM or a clean install of Windows. Pull up Task Manager during your normal work day and watch the disk usage, if it sits near zero most of the time you already have your answer.
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