Good M.2 SSDs?

Aleksbgbg · January 2, 2016

Hi!

At the moment I have an 850 EVO 250GB, a Toshiba DT01ACA100 7200RPM 1TB 3.5" and a Seagate 5400RPM 2TB 2.5".

Right now, I only have my OS and some very light games/programs that I need to boot fast, e.g. League of Legends and Office (office is so slow on HDDs!).

I have all my heavy games (15GB+) on my Toshiba drive as they would fill up the SSD fast (pretty sure I have like 200GB of them already).

Anyway, the idea is that I plan on upgrading. 250GB ain't gonna cut it. I know samsung are well known for their fast SSDs, which is why I got one but I need at least 750GB of SSD storage to install games on it relatively carelessly.

, at the moment I've noticed that games like Assassin's Creed don't benefit from the SSD (I tried it just to check, only 15GB+ game I've put on the SSD so far and I've moved it back).

Also, I'm guessing other games don't benefit much either if the SSD is cheap or something like the kingston V300.

My motherboard has M.2 slots, so I was thinking if I get a low-priced one that is relatively good then that might help - it needs to be 500 or 512GB or similar.

Any suggestions? Thanks

z97 · January 2, 2016

The one in my sig is blistering fast.

Also the new samsung 950 pro i think it is blows mine away

January 2, 2016

>Low price
>M.2

>500GB

If only...

they are about £250+ for a 500GB twice the price of a normal SSD.

paddy-stone · January 3, 2016

Yeah, need to know what price range you're looking at?

I have a crucial M500 M.2 and it's never given me any trouble, read speeds are about what you'd expect @ approx 475MB/s, so not blistering fast or anything, but to be honest unless you're looking into a 950 pro or similar and have a compatible motherboard or would use an adaptor, they're all pretty much around that or near enough that makes a damn anyway. You're mainly going to be using it as a READ drive right? and unless I'm mistaken (probably knowing me) the game software would still have to be good enough to read that good that NVME would make little to no difference at the moment for gameplay. So if that is true, you may as well just get a larger M.2 or SSD over the newer NVME drives.