Best M.2 SSD?

[MarkoCroatiaMC]

And pls don't say Samsung because I have their Samsung 850 Pro 2.5" and it's not that gr8. P.S I need 1 TB of it.

[Coaxialgamer]

2 minutes ago, MarkoCroatiaMC said:

And pls don't say Samsung because I have their Samsung 850 Pro 2.5" and it's not that gr8. P.S I need 1 TB of it.

there are none,

[DXMember]

what do you mean by BEST ??

the fastest? the most durable? one with the most capacity?

in what formfactor you want to use it? will it be in a laptop, a tower?

can you support NVMe?

@MarkoCroatiaMC

[Enderman]

how is it not great?!

its one of the fastest sata drives in the world, and like most other SSDs bottlenecked by sata 3

 

the 950 PRO is the best M.2 SSD available

[TidaLWaveZ]

I'm pretty sure the Samsung 950 pro m.2 is literally the best m.2 ssd.

[Minsekt]

M.2 wont make a SSD better since it can still be sata. its NVMe and PCIE that makes the difference. the samsung 950 pro is the best m.2 drive as of today, but its only available in 512gb max.

[DXMember]

2 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

I'm pretty sure the Samsung 950 pro m.2 is literally the best m.2 ssd.

not for random IOs not for capacity

still waiting on OP for what does best mean to him...

[JJOATz]

@DXMember Out of my own personal curiousity, what beats the Samsung 950 Pro M.2 for I/O?

[TidaLWaveZ]

I can only find a single 1tb m.2 ssd available, so that's gonna be the only option.  Also it runs in sATA so it's probably not even going to perform as well as the 850 pro you have already.

[kameshss]

1TB M.2, I can think of 950 Pro. Nothing else.

[Thony]

Can u @MarkoCroatiaMC   please tell me how 850 pro did not meet your expectations for a "great ssd" ???  

 

I would love to hear what is so wrong with it that u dont want to own any other samsung ssd. 

 

I have 850 evo and its been performing excellent since ive bought it. 

[Redicat]

45 minutes ago, Minsekt said:

M.2 wont make a SSD better since it can still be sata. its NVMe and PCIE that makes the difference. the samsung 950 pro is the best m.2 drive as of today, but its only available in 512gb max.

Uh M.2 can use MVMe* what are you talking about? M.2 can use PCIE bandwith for high end a PCIE 3.0 4x slot.

 

* = Corrected my bad.

[Minsekt]

2 minutes ago, Redicat said:

Uh M.2 use MVMe what are you talking about? M.2 uses the PCIE bandwith for high end a PCIE 3.0 4x slot.

but there are SATA based M.2 drives too. thats why i said it can still be sata. not every m.2 device is pcie based!

[Redicat]

21 minutes ago, Minsekt said:

but there are SATA based M.2 drives too. thats why i said it can still be sata. not every m.2 device is pcie based!

Uh yeah my head was to the HIGH-end side...

[Minsekt]

Just now, Redicat said:

Uh yeah my and my head was to the HIGH-end side...

NVMe use PCI-E. almost any AHCI m.2 drive still uses sata controller

[W-L]

-Moved to Storage Thread- 

 

As for best in terms of highest performing consumer M.2 drive as suggested the 950 Pro would be the best option for that. 

[MarkoCroatiaMC]

20 minutes ago, Thony said:

Can u @MarkoCroatiaMC   please tell me how 850 pro did not meet your expectations for a "great ssd" ???  

 

I would love to hear what is so wrong with it that u dont want to own any other samsung ssd. 

 

I have 850 evo and its been performing excellent since ive bought it. 

Well, since I paid around 430$ for it (1 TB) I was expecting it to boot up windows in max. 20 secs. But it takes around 40-45. Loading up MS Word takes around 10 secs. Have I made my point yet?

[KemoKa]

52 minutes ago, JJOATz said:

@DXMember Out of my own personal curiousity, what beats the Samsung 950 Pro M.2 for I/O?

The only SSDs that will beat it in raw speed are possibly the Intel 750 and DC series.

[TidaLWaveZ]

1 minute ago, MarkoCroatiaMC said:

Well, since I paid around 430$ for it (1 TB) I was expecting it to boot up windows in max. 20 secs. But it takes around 40-45. Loading up MS Word takes around 10 secs. Have I made my point yet?

Well then you must have been using SSDs with nvme pcie speeds your whole life and you just got so used to the speed that you couldn't stand the speed of arguably the best performing 2.5" sata SSD, right?

 

 

[TidaLWaveZ]

Just now, TidaLWaveZ said:

Well then you must have been using SSDs with nvme pcie speeds your whole life and you just got so used to the speed that you couldn't stand the speed of arguably the best performing 2.5" sata SSD, right?

 

 

 

Honestly, what drives have you used prior to the Samsung 850 pro that outperform it? Maybe your expectations were unrealistic?

[DXMember]

1 hour ago, JJOATz said:

@DXMember Out of my own personal curiousity, what beats the Samsung 950 Pro M.2 for I/O?

Intels 750 if you can consider the SAS to M.2 adapter to be be acceptable

also a lot of enterprise stuff

[KemoKa]

8 minutes ago, MarkoCroatiaMC said:

Well, since I paid around 430$ for it (1 TB) I was expecting it to boot up windows in max. 20 secs. But it takes around 40-45. Loading up MS Word takes around 10 secs. Have I made my point yet?

You must be doing something wrong, because my brother's machine takes 10 seconds to boot and all his programs load instantly. And he's on a crucial M4, which is 5 generations old.

[Thony]

8 minutes ago, MarkoCroatiaMC said:

Well, since I paid around 430$ for it (1 TB) I was expecting it to boot up windows in max. 20 secs. But it takes around 40-45. Loading up MS Word takes around 10 secs. Have I made my point yet?

Mine loads in 15 (win 10), was longer on win 7 but still years faster than my hdd wd green back in a day.

 

I dont know u so i have to ask: do u have an ssd profile set up for longavity over performance ? Isnt your other hardware/software causing the slow loading ? Have you tried updating your bios ? 

 

Just some options... 

 

Or maybe u got unlucky and have a faulty ssd. In which case i can understand the frustration.

[Redicat]

52 minutes ago, DXMember said:

Intels 750 if you can consider the SAS to M.2 adapter to be be acceptable

also a lot of enterprise stuff

Wait how about to do Sata-Express to M.2 adapter?

[MarkoCroatiaMC]

1 hour ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

Well then you must have been using SSDs with nvme pcie speeds your whole life and you just got so used to the speed that you couldn't stand the speed of arguably the best performing 2.5" sata SSD, right?

 

 

No, but a friend of mine is using SanDisk Ultra II (480 GB) which should be a bit slower than Samsung 850 EVO. And his SSD loads Windows 10 (I also use Win 10) in around 20 secs. See now?