PCIe NVMe M.2 opinions

[iDarthJedi]

I'm about to purchase a 512 PCIe NVMe M.2. to replace my SATA III 128. Any opinions? It looks like there will be a huge difference in the speed; but is it worth the $400? Will I actually notice it?

As a secondary, anyone have an informed opinion on the 960 PRO vs the 960 EVO? There is roughly $100 difference, but seems to be very little speed difference...

[ZED]

I'm about to purchase a 512 PCIe NVMe M.2. to replace my SATA III 128. Any opinions? It looks like there will be a huge difference in the speed; but is it worth the $400? Will I actually notice it?

As a secondary, anyone have an informed opinion on the 960 PRO vs the 960 EVO? There is roughly $100 difference, but seems to be very little speed difference...

There will be a huge difference in speed. I'd go for 960 EVO. $100 more for boost in write speed is unnecessary waste of money unless you really need that write speed. Other than that, Read speed is what you mostly will use.

[iDarthJedi]

that's where I was leaning; was curious if anyone else had thiughts.. thanks!

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[JochemWok]

Uuuhm here in the netherlands I can do this upgrade for only 80 euro's why so much for you?

[iDarthJedi]

I don't know.. perhaps I should ship one in from the netherlands.. lol. they're 300-400$ here.

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[iDarthJedi]

It's showing up tomorrow evening! Looking forward to trying it out.

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[ZED]

It's showing up tomorrow evening! Looking forward to trying it out.

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Nice! Congrats! Post some results/impressions when you finally get your hands on it.

[iDarthJedi]

Haven't played with it yet; but a couple items of note:

1. It's unbelievably small (see picture A).
2. It didn't come with the screw needed to hold it in the mobo (grrr)
2a. The Alien laptop had a screw just right on the custom name plate (see picture B).
3. I removed the small SSD before doing the bench mark; but clearly it kicks butt over a regular SATA drive (see picture C).
4. EaseUS is worthless; their "Trial" forced me to buy it to "try it", and then it wouldn't work; so I just went back to the native Samsung utility to transfer the drive, and I'm giving EaseUS another 8 hours to refund before I request a charge back from PayPal (or the CC company).

[ZED]

Haven't played with it yet; but a couple items of note:

1. It's unbelievably small (see picture A).
2. It didn't come with the screw needed to hold it in the mobo (grrr)
2a. The Alien laptop had a screw just right on the custom name plate (see picture B).
3. I removed the small SSD before doing the bench mark; but clearly it kicks butt over a regular SATA drive (see picture C).
4. EaseUS is worthless; their "Trial" forced me to buy it to "try it", and then it wouldn't work; so I just went back to the native Samsung utility to transfer the drive, and I'm giving EaseUS another 8 hours to refund before I request a charge back from PayPal (or the CC company).

Nice!

EaseUS Trial works just fine. I've been using it many times to clone the drive.

[iDarthJedi]

During reboot EaseUS, kept giving me errors every time and freezing the PC, no matter how I tried to approach copying the two drives. I'd probably use Acronis when I give my son the smaller SSD, have more successful experience it.

Jury is in; *significant* difference in load time, recording, etc. with this NVMe SSD and the SATA III SSD. Happy, Happy, Happy.

[SubsandwichMachinegun]

My laptop (Razer blade stealth 7500u) has a 240gb m.2 ssd and it boots fast and can perform anything file based really smoothly. Desktop has a sata ssd because I got addicted to the fast boots on my laptop xD

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[Meth]

I have a 950 Pro M.2, absolutely love it. As far as gaming goes, you might not notice a *huge* difference, but for large files transfers, and even transferring many small files you will notice a very large difference, imo. Definitely a good step up from what you have though. As far as just gaming goes though, I would just recommend a normal SSD like an 850 pro or evo.

[iDarthJedi]

I have a 950 Pro M.2, absolutely love it. As far as gaming goes, you might not notice a *huge* difference, but for large files transfers, and even transferring many small files you will notice a very large difference, imo. Definitely a good step up from what you have though. As far as just gaming goes though, I would just recommend a normal SSD like an 850 pro or evo.

I found a HUGE difference between the sata III SSD and the NVMe SSD. I went with the EVO instead of the PRO.

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