On 2 December 2017 at 20:50, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
I just don't want people to think in general NVMe SSDs with a $25 adapter is never the best option for desktop PCs.
Mikhail has chosen to buy a 256GB SATA interfaced SSD for ~$100.
For ~$150 he could have bought a 256GB NVMe (PM961) interfaced SSD and an adapter. That pair would be 3x or more the speed of a SATA SSD.
For him, the $50 was too much. For others it may not be.
Checked things. All prices in GBP as I buy the stuff off Amazon.co.uk even though I am in Ireland. I got the 250Gb SATA3 SSD for 62 GBP. That was the Cyber Monday sale and it is 80 GBP now. There is a 80GBP NVMe SSD but it has speeds similar to the one I bought (in the 500Mb/s range). An NVMe SSD with circa 1.5 Gb/s costs 112 GBP, and the controller costs 23 GBP. So the difference (between non-sale prices) is 112+23-80=55GBP, slightly above your threshold but it might just be taxes. Not sure what may have been on sale for NVMe. Yes, too big for me, and yes, perhaps not too big for someone else. -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org