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Title is kind of self explanatory but what I mean is in day to day use, will it actually make a lot of difference to overall system performance over a normal SATA SSD or is it only really useful if you're transferring large files or trying to save space and wiring?

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5 minutes ago, Inversion said:

Title is kind of self explanatory but what I mean is in day to day use, will it actually make a lot of difference to overall system performance over a normal SATA SSD or is it only really useful if you're transferring large files or trying to save space and wiring?

No, not really. Only if you're transferring large amounts of files, and you're doing it from one NVMe SSD to another (or doing multiple copy jobs at the same time to various other drives), or you're doing read/write intensive single-drive operations (like remuxing video files or something).

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Space and wiring yes because normally there are no wires and M.2 drives usually mount right to the motherboard so no space requirements (other than a slot on the motherboard). Speed, not really a significant difference vs a "standard" SSD. 

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12 minutes ago, Gamessys said:

Space and wiring yes because normally there are no wires and NVMe drives usually mount right to the motherboard so no space requirements (other than a slot on the motherboard). Speed, not really a significant difference vs a SATA SSD. 

SATA SSDs can mount right on the motherboard too. M.2 drives can be either PCIe/NVMe or SATA/AHCI (or the outdated PCIe/AHCI combination in the case of a few older models).

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Just now, Sakkura said:

SATA SSDs can mount right on the motherboard too. M.2 drives can be either PCIe/NVMe or SATA/AHCI (or the outdated PCIe/AHCI combination in the case of a few older models).

My bad, I'm thinking SATA as in just a "normal" SSD that most people would have like a Samsung 850 EVO or the like.

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22 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

In regular use it does not make a big difference.

More like makes no difference.

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yes and no..

 

you notice the difference between a sata and nvme SSD in some very storage-specific cases (installing software, etc.) but its a difference that's already in the margin of "how fast can you click next?"

 

so in short: yes its faster, no it's not notable enough to be worth the price difference.

 

i'd rather recommend an nvme SSD for the fact it "hides" on your motherboard, as opposed to having to deal with SATA power and data cables towards what's essentially an empty 2.5" box.

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