M.2 Drive

[Sir Asvald]

I'm thinking of buying an M.2 Drive. I want to replace my horrible V300 120GB SSD.

 

My Motherboard is the Z97-A from Asus. 

 

What would be a good SSD. I've a bugdet of £100-150

[bgibbz]

Samsung 950 pro

[DrJones]

Samsung and Intel seem to be making the best M.2's right now. Price depends mostly on capacity with them. I use a 950 Pro, but they are just outside your price range for the lower capacity. Could try an 850 evo, but I don't know how they compare.

 

EDIT: 950's are NVMe/PCI-e, 850's use SATA III

[skeeder]

MX200 is my vote, the M.2 version uses MLC too.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148955

500GB for $239.

 

The Samsung 950pro is well regarded, but its almost $80 more for the same amount of storage.

 

[spellmanuk]

950 pro is the best bet i will be getting one of these in the next few months 

[DHelios]

Samsung has just (yesterday, I believe) revealed the 960 EVO and 960 Pro. They should be available as soon as next month. For now, prices and performance look pretty awesome, so I'd wait for those before buying. A 960 EVO will probably be a better buy than a 950 Pro...

[Shubham Yadav]

Wait for the 960 EVO.

[spellmanuk]

Just now, DHelios said:

Samsung has just (yesterday, I believe) revealed the 960 EVO and 960 Pro. They should be available as soon as next month. For now, prices and performance look pretty awesome, so I'd wait for those before buying. A 960 EVO will probably be a better buy than a 950 Pro...

950 pro is a good deal espeshilly once the 960 is out 

[Sir Asvald]

9 minutes ago, bgibbz said:

Samsung 950 pro

That's expensive. £300  

[DrJones]

2 minutes ago, DHelios said:

Samsung has just (yesterday, I believe) revealed the 960 EVO and 960 Pro. They should be available as soon as next month. For now, prices and performance look pretty awesome, so I'd wait for those before buying. A 960 EVO will probably be a better buy than a 950 Pro...

Holy crap just looked them up. 3500 sequential read? Woah....

only thing to remember here is that as the speeds go up, the benefits in a real world case go down. For example: a 50 GB file at 1500 MB/s= 33.3seconds. 2500 MB/s =20seconds. 3500MB/s= 14.3seconds. See how it begins to taper off?

But anyways, for the price that they are offering for the 960's plus the option of now 1 and 2 TB , I'd wait too.

[Mello]

2 hours ago, Abdul201588 said:

That's expensive. £300  

The Samsung 950 pro 250 GB version is about 180-200$

[DHelios]

1 minute ago, DrJones said:

Holy crap just looked them up. 3500 sequential read? Woah....

only thing to remember here is that as the speeds go up, the benefits in a real world case go down. For example: a 50 GB file at 1500 MB/s= 33.3seconds. 2500 MB/s =20seconds. 3500MB/s= 14.3seconds. See how it begins to taper off?

But anyways, for the price that they are offering for the 960's plus the option of now 1 and 2 TB , I'd wait too.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-960-evo-960-pro-nvme-ssds,32732.html
TomsHardware has a pretty in-depth article on the new drives. I was considering SM961/PM961, but it looks like the 960s will be the drives to beat.

[Sir Asvald]

2 minutes ago, Mello said:

The Samsung 950 pro 250 GB version is about 180-200$

That's in dollars.. I'm using £

[DrJones]

2 minutes ago, DHelios said:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-960-evo-960-pro-nvme-ssds,32732.html
TomsHardware has a pretty in-depth article on the new drives. I was considering SM961/PM961, but it looks like the 960s will be the drives to beat.

Pretty cool, don't know if the "copper" sticker will help all that much. I use a little heat spreader on the controller chip of my 950, keeps it much cooler

The additional technology to prevent heat seems it would help, I don't like that it will have to throttle itself anyways though; I'd still throw a little heat sink on it too. Anxious to see how the new 5-core controller does.

[Mello]

2 hours ago, Abdul201588 said:

That's in dollars.. I'm using £

950 pro 250 GB around 145£ in newegg now.

[Sir Asvald]

21 minutes ago, Mello said:

950 pro 250 GB around 145£ in newegg now.

I'll need to pay for import tax.. They ship from US.. I'll have to pay an extra £37.99

 

[Mello]

3 hours ago, Abdul201588 said:

I'll need to pay for import tax.. They ship from US.. I'll have to pay an extra £37.99

Hey, you said 100-150£ budget, you can stop complaining  

950 pro is worth it though, it's fast as sanic.

[Sir Asvald]

5 minutes ago, Mello said:

Hey, you said 100-150£ budget, you can stop complaining  

950 pro is worth it though, it's fast as sanic.

I think you need to use your brain...I'm in the UK, Newegg is in America, They ship the product from America and I have to pay with extra £37.99 for tax and shipping. What don't you understand from what I'm saying?

And my budget is £100-150, I'm not spending over that. 

 

[vercadium]

Unless the 960 Evo retails at a good price when it's released next month, your best price-to-performance option is probably the Intel 600p which is currently on sale for £150 on OCUK.

 

EDIT: Assuming you want ~500GB storage. Obviously if you need less you can save money by getting less capacity.

[nuttytechy]

4 hours ago, Abdul201588 said:

I'm thinking of buying an M.2 Drive. I want to replace my horrible V300 120GB SSD.

 

My Motherboard is the Z97-A from Asus. 

 

What would be a good SSD. I've a bugdet of £100-150

Try this link > uk company, Cheap delivery prices too. I can vouch for them as I use them all the time. I normally go in store..

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-internal/ssdsolidstate/m.2ssd/

 

[Mello]

6 hours ago, Abdul201588 said:

I think you need to use your brain...I'm in the UK, Newegg is in America, They ship the product from America and I have to pay with extra £37.99 for tax and shipping. What don't you understand from what I'm saying?

And my budget is £100-150, I'm not spending over that. 

lol I was just kidding,

you're overheating you need to chill xD.