Which M.2 NVME drive to buy? And what size?

[RileyTheFox]

Hello there!

 

I'm looking to buy an M.2 NVME SSD (the Intel 600p precisely) and I'm wondering if this is a good drive? If it is, what size should I get? Budget is £130. The drive will be used as a boot drive and for a few games.

 

Help is appreciated  

[Guest]

Why do you need NVME for games and boot?

[Mira Yurizaki]

NVME offers little if any performance benefit when it comes to booting and load times and practically zero while the game is running. It's better to get a SATA SSD because for the same price point as an NVME one you can get double the amount of storage. This lets you have more things on an SSD.

[RileyTheFox]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Why do you need NVME for games and boot?

Well what else would I use it for?

[RileyTheFox]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

NVME offers little if any performance benefit when it comes to booting and load times and practically zero while the game is running. It's better to get a SATA SSD because for the same price point as an NVME one you can get double the amount of storage. This lets you have more things on an SSD.

 

Recommend any SATA SSDs? With nice sizes too. Don't need something huge like 1TB.

[zMeul]

2 minutes ago, EvilCat70 said:

Recommend any SATA SSDs? With nice sizes too. Don't need something huge like 1TB.

any Samsung 850 EVO, in your price range the 250GB

or the Crucial MX300 at 500GB

[RileyTheFox]

1 minute ago, zMeul said:

any Samsung 850 EVO in your price range

Would a 250GB one fit my needs? My Windows install is 28GB and I have a few games that are between 8 and 60GB.

[zMeul]

1 minute ago, EvilCat70 said:

Would a 250GB one fit my needs? My Windows install is 28GB and I have a few games that are between 8 and 60GB.

I'd get the MX300, see my previous post

[RileyTheFox]

1 minute ago, zMeul said:

I'd get the MX300, see my previous post

Is the durability and quality of it good? Never seen anyone use this before.

[RileyTheFox]

4 minutes ago, zMeul said:

I'd get the MX300, see my previous post

I think I'd get the 275GB one. It's much cheaper and has a good storage space. Better than my second HDD.

[zMeul]

13 minutes ago, EvilCat70 said:

I think I'd get the 275GB one. It's much cheaper and has a good storage space. Better than my second HDD.

today's games are quite big

but hey ... your money

[Scruffy90]

I just bought an nvme drive and regret not buying a 1tb ssd drive for the same price. While the speed is there, the hassle of mobo configuration (depending on the mobo) is just not worth the headache. 

[dizmo]

1 hour ago, EvilCat70 said:

I think I'd get the 275GB one. It's much cheaper and has a good storage space. Better than my second HDD.

I'd go with 525GB, my 240GB drive filled up extremely fast and it was only a couple months before I was looking for an additional SSD to add to my system.

3 minutes ago, Scruffy90 said:

I just bought an nvme drive and regret not buying a 1tb ssd drive for the same price. While the speed is there, the hassle of mobo configuration (depending on the mobo) is just not worth the headache. 

Did you actually notice the few second difference in most activities?

[Scruffy90]

18 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I'd go with 525GB, my 240GB drive filled up extremely fast and it was only a couple months before I was looking for an additional SSD to add to my system.

Did you actually notice the few second difference in most activities?

In synthetic benchmarks yeah. Diff was massive (went from sammy840 pro to 960 evo), but in real world use, I am not noticing it, outside of opening adobe software. 

[JoostinOnline]

I strongly recommend this one right now. I follow SSD prices and benchmarks for my business, and it has exceptionally fast 4K read speeds, which is what matters. Most drives hover around 24MB/s, but this gets around 29MB/s.

[dizmo]

50 minutes ago, Scruffy90 said:

In synthetic benchmarks yeah. Diff was massive (went from sammy840 pro to 960 evo), but in real world use, I am not noticing it, outside of opening adobe software. 

Yeah, that's kind of what I figured. Good to get some confirmation though now I know I won't be missing anything by just grabbing a 1TB SSD instead of a 250GB/1TB.

[Scruffy90]

14 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Yeah, that's kind of what I figured. Good to get some confirmation though now I know I won't be missing anything by just grabbing a 1TB SSD instead of a 250GB/1TB.

Yeah, I regret not going with 1tb. It is also a bit finicky with my motherboard, so theres that that too. Wouldn't have had that issue with a Sata ssd.

[maz]

I'd go 512GB at least, if you want it to last a while. you won't only store an OS and games on it.

my Sandisk Extreme 240GB has lasted strong already 7 years old and still the same speed as when I purchased it.

If that's anything for durability.

 

having JUST an OS and the most important programs installed on the 240GB SSD I never filled it. ever.

Get a secondary drive for storage, spinning rust is ok for this. I recommend a HGST-7200rpm 1TB drive (IDK your currency, this one is $91AUD where I am) (all my documents, games, non important programs, etc go on secondary drives).