SSD for regular use: Crucial P1 NVME vs Samsung EVO 860 SATA ?

[kenfused]

Hi For a Mac mini M1, Thinking of using an SSD for external storage for all files.
Would a

• Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe Internal SSD, up to 2000MB/s - CT1000P1SSD8
• or
• Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E1T0B/AM)

Make that much difference? Price is the same right now, and enclosure prices are close enough. Any pros cons to this? It think the NVME is supposed to be faster in general but the Samsung is very highly regarded as a SATA model

Any thoughts?

 

[mdgm]

SATA III (6Gbps) would give a tad under 600MB/s. NVMe is much faster. Go with NVMe preferably in a TB3 enclosure.

 

[Fishrrman]

Assuming you are going to put these into USB3 enclosures, the nvme blade SSD will be 70-90% faster than the SATA SSD.

HOWEVER...

You'll need a USB3.1 gen2 enclosure for the nvme.
BE AWARE that these run somewhat warmer (hotter?) than do SATA drives in USB3 enclosures.
This may not become a factor unless you start doing long, extended writes to the nvme drive.

For the SATA drive, an inexpensive USB3 enclosure will do fine.
Such as this:

SABRENT 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool Free External Hard Drive Enclosure [Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III] Black (EC-UASP)

SABRENT 2.5 Inch SATA to USB 3.0 Tool Free External Hard Drive Enclosure [Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III] Black (EC-UASP)

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I WOULD NOT recommend a thunderbolt enclosure for an external drive that is going to be used to store data (as distinguished from "a boot drive").
Expensive...

 

[kenfused]

Thanks! would this be a good enclosure for the NVME https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08C2THR25/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Fishrrman]

Re reply 4:
That looks like it will do fine.