Storage Options

[DixonM4]

Hello Everyone.

 

I have almost completed my first build,

 

I7 6700K, A170-A, 16gb DDr4, AMD R9 390.

 

My initial plan was to get a Samsung evo 250 SSD to boot from and a 3TB WD black Mechanical Drive for storage.

 

However

 

is it worth spending a little extra and getting this

 

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Storage/SSDs/M.2+PCI-E+SSD/256GB+Samsung+SM951+M.2+PCIe+NVMe+High+Performance+SSD+?productId=64851

 

and using that as a boot drive (if that's possible) and using the 3TB WD black as storage.

 

also would these work with my setup (above).

 

Thank you for any help you might be able to offer

 

Rich

 

[Bob Jim]

Save money by going with WD blue. They are quieter, and the Improved speed from blacks will be almost unnoticed if used as a storage drive.

[DixonM4]

ok thank you.

 

does anyone have any recommendations regarding the M.2.

[DixonM4]

Hello all,

 

can someone have a quick look at the above and tell me if the m.2 drive will work with what i want to do, and is the best option, before i get them ordered.

 

thanks

 

richard

[Aekim]

Not really, the extra speed you get is only worth if you have extra programms that benefit from it.

In my opinion games/windows start don't improve noticable, so get a higher capacity instead for the money (i.e. the 850 evo or a sandisk 400 sth for black pcbs)

[Ominous]

I personally wouldn't get it. I'd just go with what you said or with the toned down Blue as recommended.  M.2 won't offer that much more but it is definitely faster than SATA since it is directly in the Motherboard and it cuts the middle man (The cable).  It'll save you money.

[DixonM4]

ok thank you for you replies.