"Officially SATA Express (SATAe from now on) is part of the SATA 3.2 standard. ... As a result SATAe is fully compatible with all existing SATA drives and cables and the only real difference is that the same connector (although not the same SATA cable) can be used with PCIe SSDs"
Even if he using an entry level ryzen processor and just 4GB RAM, the difference in responsiveness of the PC will be night and day with SSD. Even pentium class processors fly with SSD for most day to day applications.
8GB DDR4 Corsair 3200 mhz is being used in this PC. But still the speed in opening of games like GTA 5 is very slow. So wanted to add a SSD....
Like, which components are you talking about....
ryzen 3 3200g
You can also consider Crucial P1 500GB if you are on a budget. I have a 1TB one and it is good.
Second that, I have same in 1TB, try to get it in amazon sale, might get good discount. I bought it for 7,649rs.
Have you posted your SSD for sale on this forum, else pls share its details, price and warranty?
No I haven't posted any NVME on sale. You should ask for a screenshot of crystaldiskinfo before buying. Refer the link that I have given. 500GB cost 4174/-. You can have it for cheaper if there are card discounts. Warranty is 5 years
Get the P1 only if you absolutely need a SSD as it uses QLC NAND and doesn't have much DRAM to speak of. In fact, it runs slower than HDDs for large writes or when the drive occupancy is very high. It is better than a SATA SSD but at the bottom of the NVMe pile.
Does P1 run at lower speed than WD BLUE SN550 500Gb or Kingston A2000, if yes, which other out of these two should be bought?
WD and Kingston are faster, but in day to day tasks, you will not feel any difference. Even when loading huge games, the difference is in 1-2 seconds. In my opinion, save money and go for the cheaper drive. Crucial P1 is 500 Rs. cheaper than WD blue
WD one uses 96 layer TLC NAND which is 3 bits stored per cell or 8 states compared to P1 which is QLC and thus has 4 bits or 16 charge states per cell. The short story is QLC uses a lot more writes to access data at a slower rate since it needs to differentiate between 16 values per cell instead of 8.
Your comment is misleading. Crucial P1 read write is about 1600 MB/s. Western Digital Green SSD is 450 MB/s and Western Digital blue HDD is 100-150 MB/s. As you can see, QLC NAND is 3 times faster than an SSD which is 4 times faster than a hard disk. Agreed that Crucial P1 is about 600 MB/s slower in reads than a WD blue SN550, but still, it is a fry cry from made to replace HDD and just like an SSD
Unfortunately, your post is extremely uninformed. You are trying to compare some different metrics, otherwise QLC does not compare favourably with TLC in any way. The P1 lags behind the SN550 in every test as you can see below, even though the SN550 itself is an entry-level TLC drive. On top of that it only has an endurance of 100 TBW compared to 300 TBW for the SN550 (500 GB variant).
www.tomshardware.com
