BestDan

Yeah, I didn't expect to spend too long debating but there appears to be an immediate consensus that a SATA drive will serve me just fine, thanks for the clarification and naming the testing program if I do decide to test the sectors, now I don't have to hunt around for one later down the road, thanks for the help!

My usage is pretty much google chrome and gaming as far as anything that would benefit from these speeds, so I suppose the consensus is that there is no reason to go make any special effort for an NVMe, thanks for the clarification!

Hello all, late last year I was fooling around with my computer and a tv while very tired and, with a hand on my pc case, I was fooling around with some external cables (not my PSU, I'm not that dumb) and a electric shock that was passed into my case caused me constant BSODs before I eventually solved the issue, any data stored in my M.2 drive (my boot drive... yeah) constantly crashed the PC with any feedback being bad drivers, as they were stored on the drive and got corrupted or ruined or something that rendered them inoperable. Part of the "fix" was moving in my boot drive to the single HDD in my system, doing a clean install and since then, I've only had to deal with the generally poor performance of a meh HDD running everything and being constantly capped and stuttering (And it's really noisy, I should reaaaally switch it out huh). With holiday season coming up and some disposable income I'm going to get myself a new SSD to move my boot drive onto and the general question is this: Should I just go with my current plan of buying a 860 evo SATA drive and just writing off the M.2 slot or is the benefit to performance and a smooth operating with that slot significantly better to the point I should test to see if it's the original M.2 ssd I busted up (A 128GB Sandisk z400s), the m.2 slot on the motherboard itself, or both? The hopeful outcome is that the slot still works and I can buy an M.2 stick rather than a SATA drive. 99% of usage is general browser use and gaming, if that is important. Thank you all for any feedback you give, I'll be happy to provide any additional details if needed when I check back to this post (I suppose an additional question is how would I test the slot without having to get another M.2 to test? Use my Sandisk one in a SATA adapter and see if it works at all with a game file or something?)