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Hi Everyone,

Firstly, Merry Christmas,

And also, Im building a new rig and was wondering if there is any benefit in paying the fairly big price for the Samsung 960 Pro or the slightly cheaper 960 EVO SSDs.

I'll thinking about using it as a boot drive so that will be an advantage but other then that, will the typical modelling/rendering type workflow benefit from these incredible read/write speeds or is it just a luxury if you've got the cash to spend.

Is anyone using these SSDs and can vouch for their amazing performance and the effect it has on your day to day work, how it remove grey hairs and creates a mediation zen like state etc or otherwise,,id love tho hear your opinions.

I dont do any animation at this stage, mainly just building fancy models in Rhino and rendering them in Octane, possible finishing in photoshop.

Cheers

Tim

960s for c:\ is becoming kinda popular, and you only need to look to reviews to see that folks love them, for how quick Windows boots and apps launch etc. I personally would never use c:\ drive as a job drive, so its speed would not help me with 3D assets etc. I haven't bought a m.2 yet, but I am completely running on SSDs for over a year now. I never feel like I am waiting on stuff with my 840s/850s, so I am not even sure I need one myself. Its nice to have the m.2 slot in mobo though. I believe they (m.2) take up four PCI-E lanes, so keep that in mind. If you have three or four GPUs, this might affect your 16x, 8x, 4x situation.

I don't think it will matter, seems that the bottleneck is Octane processing (compiling) the models for use in the render, and NOT the reading speed. I'm using SSDs here and Octane barely touches the reading speed... not even close to 20%... Seems to me that it's a better idea to invest in a CPU (6700K or 7700K) and then watercool it, if you want to see real gains in loading speed.