To help filter down the noise, follow this
flowchart, use this
comparison sheet and check prices and availability from
pcpricetracker I will not recommend buying SSDs from Amazon as they stock comingled inventory.
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Thats a great deal of info, so thanks
@subheader2226 , But the Relative experience from my end stands tall, coz the discussion is about, P3 Plus and 970 EVO, does their performance match with qlc and tlc in the hardwares, In theory, TLC is better than QLC, the discussion pointed out the drawbacks of QLC ssds tend to go down in the speed,
but in REALITY, for a 1 TB NVMe/SSD drive, i keep 31 GB ASIDE at the last partition for
overprovisioning, that is more than enough for the DRIVE to
take care of the competitive speed as spoken in theory as a DRAWBACK, Over provisioning comes to the fore as a solution, P3 Plus in particular, Onboard DRAM cache only makes a huge difference in SATA drives. The P3 Plus and many other NVMe drives use Host Memory Buffer tech to use a small bit of system RAM as DRAM cache. The difference is completely negligible - the drive controller and NAND are the main performance differentiators once you involve HMB tech.
Having said that, as i have referred to the flowchart posted by
@subheader2226 , it clearly states DRAM-less is not anymore an issue and is negligible with the speed of the systems these days, its just 100 milli seconds thats a fraction of second, Also, u will lose only 1-2 Seconds or few milliseconds for booting time in comparison, is not much of a difference, once booted, Gaming is abreeze and smooth.. so having used 970 EVO PLUS in Gen 3 mode and P3 PLUS in gen 4 mode, i found P3 PLUS is the winner against 970 EVO, its the limitation factor for 970 evo, but 3 years Back 970 evo plus was the greatest NVMe on the planet coz 980 pro had some firmware issues losing customer credits , but for 980 pro being GEN 4 can beat marginally P3 PLUS, thats my inference...
On price comparison i bought 980 pro 1TB and 970 evo plus 1TB together on a festival sales time,
for the combined same price i bought a 4TB P3 PLUS, i
gained additional 2TB of NVMe SSD and 80% Gen 4 speed as it hits almost 5GB sequential write speed, its a big gain for me..., and i have left 100GB out of 4TB for
Overprovisioning,
that creates the magic as a solution/trick to give competitive speed with High-end NVMes, in the
flowchart, i will rate P3 PLUS between MID-RANGE and HIGH-RANGE NVMes, its misplaced at entry-level there,
that's purely my experience to share in TE SOCIETY...
Disclaimer: Lately in security field, OverProvisioning Technology has brought a vulnerability issue to the shore... Performance difference will only be visible when drives are almost 90% full or when doing intensive read write tasks at the same time for long duration. I already got P3 4TB for 15k in sale & P3 & P3 plus have same hardware with the only difference being the connector which is pcie 3.0 in P3 & pcie 4.0 in P3 Plus.
Thanks for info, to learn that P3 and P3 PLUS are the same except their interface hardwares.... good tip BRO!!