Going M.2

[Sajidrh]

So I have a Gigabyte B250m-hd3 motherboard with Intel G4560 processor and a 8gb ddr4 2400 ram. I have a WD blue 1TB HDD. Now I am thinking going to m.2 rather than ssd. I have a ton of confusion With m.2s. Is it going to be compatible with my motherboard? Does is has any other requirements? or should i just buy a ssd? 

plz help me 

[Enderman]

m.2 is still an ssd....

What it isn't is a sata SSD.

You should just buy a sata SSD and not have to worry about any of this stuff because it will just work.

[ARikozuM]

If you'd like an M.2 SSD, I'd go with a 960 EVO, MX300, 850 EVO, or SU800. First one is NVMe while the rest are SATA-based.

[Oshino Shinobu]

M.2 drives are SSD drives. It's also just a form factor, so if you get an AHCI M.2 drive it will perform no different to a comparable "regular" SSD drive. 

 

I assume you're talking NVMe, which is a communication standard that uses the PCIe links over the M.2 interface. It excels at sequential read/writes but not so much random read/writes, so it's good at large file transfers and sustained reads/writes, but is about the same as a regular AHCI/SATA SSD for everyday use and boot times. 

[Sakkura]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

m.2 is still an ssd....

What it isn't is a sata SSD.

Many M.2 SSDs are still SATA SSDs.

 

The only thing they aren't is 2.5" drives.

 

OP, your motherboard supports both the "slow" SATA M.2 drives and the faster PCIe/NVMe M.2 drives. Might want to check whether you actually need the extra speed of PCIe/NVMe. If so, I'd recommend the MyDigitalSSD BPX, it has a good price/performance ratio.

[Sakkura]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

M.2 drives are SSD drives. It's also just a form factor, so if you get an AHCI M.2 drive it will perform no different to a comparable "regular" SSD drive.

AHCI is applicable to some PCIe drives too. What matters is whether the link is SATA or PCIe. The difference between AHCI and NVMe is not that big at the moment.

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, Sakkura said:

Many M.2 SSDs are still SATA SSDs.

 

The only thing they aren't is 2.5" drives.

 

OP, your motherboard supports both the "slow" SATA M.2 drives and the faster PCIe/NVMe M.2 drives. Might want to check whether you actually need the extra speed of PCIe/NVMe. If so, I'd recommend the MyDigitalSSD BPX, it has a good price/performance ratio.

lol you're right, but I'm talking about the connection type not the data protocol

[Columbo]

Here is a link to a Samsung ACHI M.2 Gen 3 card. Not as fast as the NVME stuff but much faster than a standard 2.5" SSD drive. 

 

http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/24782/SAMSUNG-MZHPV256HDGL-00000