i want an ssd but not sure what to get.

[TimBoBaggins]

this is my mother board: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B150-GAMING-M3.html#hero-overview

(bad choice, i know. should have got a better chipset)

i want to get an ssd with around 240GB of storage for my pc but i am not sure as to what one will give me the best speeds. my mother board has an m.2 port but to quote msi's website "M.2 6Gb/s (SATA mode only) + SATA 6Gb/s" i am not sure what this really means but there is a handy image lower on t he page that says i would only get 6gb/s over m.2 on this motherboard. it does say i can get up to 16GB/s over sata express. i don't know if you can get an ssd using sata express though. for all i know none of this matters. please help me out and point me in the direction of  a great ssd. thanks

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id get a mx300. 

 

There are no sata express ssds.

[TimBoBaggins]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id get a mx300. 

 

There are no sata express ssds.

ok, thanks

[stealth80]

Basically you can only use sata m.2, meaning you won't net any speed benefits of the m.2 port. My suggestion for SSD's is the Crucial MX300, pretty fast (you won't notice the difference outside benchmarks) and it offers more than the usual for less price aka a Samsung evo 250gb will cost more than the Crucial MX300 275gb - free space! 

[Bradl79]

what about the Samsung EVO 960 

[TimBoBaggins]

1 minute ago, stealth80 said:

Basically you can only use sata m.2, meaning you won't net any speed benefits of the m.2 port. My suggestion for SSD's is the Crucial MX300, pretty fast (you won't notice the difference outside benchmarks) and it offers more than the usual for less price aka a Samsung evo 250gb will cost more than the Crucial MX300 275gb - free space! 

will a sata ssd still offer me great improvements over my wd blue 1tb hdd?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, TimBoBaggins said:

will a sata ssd still offer me great improvements over my wd blue 1tb hdd?

it will be much faster.

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Bradl79 said:

what about the Samsung EVO 960 

doesn't have a pcie m.2 slot.

[TimBoBaggins]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

doesn't have a pcie m.2 slot.

also what is nvm express. it says i have that "supports nvm express"

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, TimBoBaggins said:

also what is nvm express. it says i have that "supports nvm express"

a way of using storage over pcie. 

 

You can put a drive in a pcie slot, but isn't woth the 2x price over a sata one.

[TimBoBaggins]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

a way of using storage over pcie. 

 

You can put a drive in a pcie slot, but isn't woth the 2x price over a sata one.

ok. so a standared sata ssd will be good then

 

[TimBoBaggins]

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

a way of using storage over pcie. 

 

You can put a drive in a pcie slot, but isn't woth the 2x price over a sata one.

or any m.2 ssd which would avoid some cables

 

[DragonTamer1]

Adata's SP550 series is a good start if you are looking for a budget option, they tend to be one of the cheapest. I have one myself and it is very solid, just wish I had saved a bit more money to get the 240GB one instead.

 

Samsungs are the fastest but in practical applications you won't notice much of a difference (if at all) except in very specific tasks like video editing.

 

I believe that OCZ has the highest right endurance of the SSDs so they would last you the longest if you plan on writing to it a lot. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here.