M.2 SSD or Sata III: Which one to choose?

[Popi]

Hello,

 

I'd like some help for choosing which SSD to buy.

 

I've been looking towards:

1) Corsair MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 240GB (Costs 135€)

2) Samsng SSD 860 EVO SATA III 250GB (Costs 100€)

 

Thought of getting M.2 because read/write speeds, but will I even recognise this difference? I'd mostly store windows, autocad, photoshop etc on that drive.

 

Thank you in advance.

[RollinLower]

if you are using it as a boot device i would reccommend the M.2 drive. eventough it might not be an obvious difference, it might help when you have a lot of programs starting with windows.

[Crunchy Dragon]

You probably wouldn't see a big enough difference to actually care. Most people don't notice the difference between NVMe drives and normal SATA3 speeds. I would recommend the Samsung 860 just for the extra 10Gb space and it's cheaper.

[Popi]

Just now, RollinLower said:

if you are using it as a boot device i would reccommend the M.2 drive. eventough it might not be an obvious difference, it might help when you have a lot of programs starting with windows.

I rarely boot my pc, it's 24/7 on.. Task manager used to show boot times with 18 seconds  At the moment it might be 7-8 seconds..

Isn't heat problem with those M.2 drives?

[Princess Luna]

Personally speaking the only reason to get M.2 is if you're making a super small build and needs every free space you can use, if you're making a normal computer the Evo SATA 3 option gets my vote.

[Popi]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Personally speaking the only reason to get M.2 is if you're making a super small build and needs every free space you can use, if you're making a normal computer the Evo SATA 3 option gets my vote.

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

You probably wouldn't see a big enough difference to actually care. Most people don't notice the difference between NVMe drives and normal SATA3 speeds. I would recommend the Samsung 860 just for the extra 10Gb space and it's cheaper.

In this case I'll go with Sata one.. Thanks. 

 

[Guest]

Keep in mind that M.2 is a form factor whereas NVMe is a protocol. M.2 drives can be NVMe OR SATA III.

That said, I agree with everyone else. The difference will be negligible in most tasks. As @Princess Cadence said, if you don't have the space or don't fee like running SATA data & power, M.2 is good. Otherwise, save a few bucks and go 2.5.