In reply to a post by Ancient_Mariner:

I will be going for Samsung. Decision now is on size and QVO or EVO.

Worth checking that the one you go for has onboard ram/cache otherwise there can be some scenarios where they are not much better (slower?) than a mechanical drive.

Still faster than any mechanical drive as there is no 'seek' time. Throughput of data transferred will mostly depend on the interface, the older PCs will have SATA2 so max out at 300 Mbps if you are lucky. Newer PCs (Intel Ivy Bridge onwards) should have SATA3 (500 Mbps) which most modern SSDs should easily meet.

Both the disks in question can max out a SATA 3 interface. There’s a review of the QVO here: https://uk.pcmag.com/ssd/127593/samsung-ssd-870-qvo with a slew of benchmarks. In some cases the QVO actually outperforms the standard EVO (which is certainly not a slouch).

Excellent! I have a couple of EVOs (2.5" SATA 3) that I have been very pleased with.

I’ve got a NVMe EVO in my PC and a couple of USB C external Samsung drives for my Mac Mini. All excellent drives and all blazingly fast. The externals are about twice the speed of a SATA 3 drive.

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

I’ve got a NVMe EVO in my PC and a couple of USB C external Samsung drives for my Mac Mini. All excellent drives and all blazingly fast. The externals are about twice the speed of a SATA 3 drive.

My old PC had USB-C that was only USB 3.0 so about the speed of SATA 3, but the newer machines have USB 3.1Gen2x2 or USB4 support and these are stunning fast. Confusing all being the same connector. I think your M1 Mac Mini is USB4 & Thunderbolt, the same as my Surface ?

In reply to a post by jchamier:

I think your M1 Mac Mini is USB4 & Thunderbolt, the same as my Surface ?

It's not an M1, it's the last of the Intel Minis (got a good deal on a refurbished one from Apple with an i7 and 32GB of RAM). It's got 4 Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports and a couple of USB 3.0 ones.

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

It's not an M1, it's the last of the Intel Minis (got a good deal on a refurbished one from Apple with an i7 and 32GB of RAM). It's got 4 Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports and a couple of USB 3.0 ones.

Nice!

Thanks for the heads up on Samsung SSDs.
I ordered a 1TB 870 EVO and a Win10 Pro 64-bit DVD from NovaTech yesterday and they arrived this morning via DPD (who are excellent around here).

Just need to decide the best way to handle the lack of a Win10 driver for my OKI C5200n printer and find a free day to rebuild my Win7 pc with the new OS and Samsung EVO SSD.

Cheers!

In reply to a post by Ancient_Mariner:

Thanks for the heads up on Samsung SSDs.
I ordered a 1TB 870 EVO and a Win10 Pro 64-bit DVD from NovaTech yesterday and they arrived this morning via DPD (who are excellent around here).

Just need to decide the best way to handle the lack of a Win10 driver for my OKI C5200n printer and find a free day to rebuild my Win7 pc with the new OS and Samsung EVO SSD.

Cheers!

2004-ish vintage. Well done on sweating that asset, if so, nearly 20-years.