PCI-E SSD's worth it.

[AMD Lover]

So theirs a few companys that have PCI-E SSD cards that hold M.2 SSD's. They are kinda expensive but give much more throughput. In your opinion is it worth the extra money (~$200) to have better speeds but the same or less amount of storage than an equivalent SATA SSD or a RAID Array that would deliver "Similar" performance.

[MegaDave91]

It's worth it if Sata SSDs aren't fast enough for you. IMO, you'd have to  be an extreme speed freak.

[wildy]

if you need more storage, maybe not

if thats not a problem to you then get it(if you can)

[AMD Lover]

if you need more storage, maybe not

if thats not a problem to you then get it(if you can)

I'm, liking this one but I want the bare version so I can put actually capable SSD's in it

 

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/SSDPHWE2R480/

[DoubleY]

Why do you need so much speed? Current SSD's are plenty fast. Unless the Msata SSD's have some crazy IOPS, I wouldn't even bother. 

[ForsakenLive]

They are much faster than regular sata SSDs.

Do you need that much speed and power? Then they are worth it.

[Sauron]

It all comes down to what you'd use them for. In everyday tasks the difference is unnoticeable, in fact I heard boot times are actually slower (not sure if it applies to m.2 as well or only to "old" pcie ssds though). If, as the website you linked says, you are a creative professional and you would actually store the video files you're working on on the ssd, then the difference can be worth your money. It depends how badly you need that extra speed.

[tbc]

less (no?) cable management?

[alpenwasser]

If you can make use of higher sequential read/write speeds,

then it might be worth it, but for most usage scenarios, that's not

really a decisive factor. Most usage patterns are small-ish random

reads and writes), and for that, you're not likely to see much benefit

from what I've read.

[hojnikb]

Just get 2 SATA ssds and put them in RAID0 if you _really_ need the speed

[wpirobotbuilder]

PCI-E SSDs are really only "worth it" in enterprise environments, where huge databases that are accessed hundreds of thousands of times per second or more can be stored on a card and actually benefit from the increased throughput.

 

Most consumer models are no better, but enterprise cards from the likes of FusionIO can generate many millions of IOPS in random workloads which would never make it through a SATA interface.

 

If price is no object, then yes, they are worth it. They save you a SATA slot, while using up a PCI-E slot, which most people don't use to their full potential anyways. They will be getting faster in the future, so maybe the performance will be better.

 

In terms of price to performance, they're absolutely not worth it. Neither is a RAID array of SSDs. Go for a single, large SSD.