Need to buy NVME SSD

That's actually good enough. How much is your budget?

6-7k

Go for either Samsung SSD 980 500GB or 970 Evo 500GB. Both perform more or less the same and come with top notch quality. Not much difference between Evo and Evo plus and SSD 980.

I am also thinking to buy NVMe drive but confused between 1TB and 500GB. How is the performance of 500GB after it is filled 50% or more? At what stage, the performance starts to take a hit?

TheSloth said:

I am also thinking to buy NVMe drive but confused between 1TB and 500GB. How is the performance of 500GB after it is filled 50% or more? At what stage, the performance starts to take a hit?

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I think 500GB is enough if you don't plan to use it as a backup drive.
For games & processing NVMe is excellent

TheSloth said:

I am also thinking to buy NVMe drive but confused between 1TB and 500GB. How is the performance of 500GB after it is filled 50% or more? At what stage, the performance starts to take a hit?

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If you have money to get a 1TB drive, do not even think of 500GB. 1TB drives will come with a larger SLC cache that helps a lot in data transfer.

1TB SSD 980 (non-evo non-pro) has far larger SLC cache (160GB) compared to 42GB of the same on 970 evo plus. Unless you are sending data higher than this SLC cache in one shot, 980 will perform really well (though it does not have DRAM onboard). The performance will degrade once the amount of free space is so low that the drive cannot use SLC cache effectively. Otherwise, for normal usage, you will not even notice any difference.

You might also want to check out Crucial P1 1TB. Currently priced 8.9k without discounts on Amazon:


I've been using the same from past 2 years and works amazing. It might be inferior when compared to 970 EVO, but the performance difference is actually negligible in real world scenarios.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Bought Samsung EVO Plus 500GB from Amazon