NVMe SSD

[T_H_O_M_06]

Hi everyone,

I finished building my computer last month. I had an old ssd laying aroud so I decided to use it.
Since last week, the ssd became very slow from time to time. The ssd will be about 2 years old in a month.

The ssd is 120gb and 70gb is not in use
Before having it spare it was in a pc that ran about 20h/day and 6/7days a week.

This lead to my question, should I buy a 960 evo to replace it since it is on sale and I don't want to lose data?
Will there be a performance improvement on boot time and program start?

I have a m.2 port on my motherboard

Links:
960 evo

Old ssd
 

 

Thank everyone for the feedback
Sorry for bad english

[PineyCreek]

What OS are you running?  If an older OS, has TRIM run? 

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=TRIM+on+SSD&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[Mira Yurizaki]

14 minutes ago, T_H_O_M_06 said:

Will there be a performance improvement on boot time and program start?

For most use cases, NVMe SSDs do not offer an appreciably better performance.

[T_H_O_M_06]

12 minutes ago, PineyCreek said:

What OS are you running?  If an older OS, has TRIM run? 

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=TRIM+on+SSD&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

I was not aware of trim and I will try it!

 

 

11 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

26 minutes ago, T_H_O_M_06 said:

Will there be a performance improvement on boot time and program start?

For most use cases, NVMe SSDs do not offer an appreciably better performance.

Thank you! I may buy an UPS instead since I have frequent power outage and installing a nvme ssd require me to remove the heatsink that is really difficult to reinstall