Do SSD read & write differences matter in real world situations ?

[Lebogang95]

To give you a bit of context, I have the HP Omen gaming laptop. It contains an Intel Core i5 7th Gen Processor, NVIDIA GTX 1050 4GB Graphics Card and 8GB of RAM. It's not much but it's pretty neat, gets the job done.

The one issue I have with it though is the Windows part of it. For some reason Windows seems to run slow at times which annoys me because like anyone, I like to get things done a bit faster ( I blame Chrome, Bit-defender & Android Studio ). To help with this I'm planning on buying an SSD & 8GB more of RAM which is the maximum supported (16GB).

The RAM is pretty straightforward. The issue I'm having is deciding upon which SSD I have to buy which also has to be an M.2 NVMe SSD. I have three options at this point

Transcend which is more expensive at R1 300 but has read & write speeds of up to 3200MB/s - 1700MB/s respectively.
Mushkin option which costs R949 (Down from R1 500) & has read & write speeds of up to 2470MB/s - 1000MB/s respectively.
Another Transcend option which costs R645 & has read & write speeds of up to 1800MB/s - 1500MB/s respectively.

Obviously I want to spend as little money as possible here so if I go for the cheapest one will I lose out on those higher read & write speeds in real world situations ? If I go for the more expensive options would I be able to notice the difference in performance between the expensive Transcend and cheaper Transcend granted they were side by side.

 

[ArmatageShanks]

If your coming from a mechanical drive the difference you'll experience will be absolutely mind boggling, SSD's are so much faster that you'll be happy with any of those options. I'd say take the Transcend as its nice and cheap and if you feel you want more you can always save up and get something even faster although I doubt you'll feel its to slow anytime soon.

 

[ponder]

Obviously I want to spend as little money as possible here so if I go for the cheapest one will I lose out on those higher read & write speeds in real world situations ? If I go for the more expensive options would I be able to notice the difference in performance between the expensive Transcend and cheaper Transcend granted they were side by side.

No you won't notice the difference so buy whatever fits your pocket. In desktop/gaming use the difference between a sata ssd which is much slower than nvme is not really noticeable either as the difference is like a second or two.

 

[Mr Scratch]

Get the one with the longest warranty.