I appreciate all your inputs. But “performance” wasn’t my actual (or nr.1) concern here.
I just wanted an insight on a pure technical and physical point of view.
When writing this thread I was torn between a Samsung 870 Evo and Samsung 970 Evo Plus (both 2TB). With the Samsung 970 evo Plus being (weirdly enough) ca. €10 cheaper.
Normally anyone would grab the 970 without hesitation, not only for the high performance, but also for the space efficiency. But I remember reading posts that from a pure physical point of view that 870 runs let’s say “safer”. And that’s the only thing I wanted to clarify. I already have a 970 installed for the system and had no issues. But I didn’t know what’s the story when simming and gaming is done on such a drive during long periods of time. But if there isn’t much to worry about I will get the 970.
Unless of course there is a chance I may bottleneck the 970 on a specific slot to performance’s below the 870’s then I may reconsider. Both my M.2 slots are NVMe capable. One of them NVMe only, the other I can choose (via BIOS).