Boot drive question

[paulbean150]

I am trying to replace my boot drive as it is too small to update windows and would like to upgrade to a M.2 SSD, however I don't understand what is necessary in a boot drive for optimal performance, and was just gonna grab a samsung 960 pro, can someone help me find a cheaper option for this, I want at least 500 GB space for any apps and extras, and my motherboard is an MSI Z170a PC Mate

[Electronics Wizardy]

960 drives are last gen, get the 970 instead.

 

Why pro, the 970 evo is basically the same for all consumer uses. You probalby don't need mlc.

 

What are you using it for? A sata drive might be worth the savings here.

[paulbean150]

the PC is used as an all rounder, videogames, emulators, streaming youtube, and media center, I want to try to preserve the sata slots for my game library, also I meant the 970, sorry about that

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

960 drives are last gen, get the 970 instead.

 

Why pro, the 970 evo is basically the same for all consumer uses. You probalby don't need mlc.

 

What are you using it for? A sata drive might be worth the savings here.

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, paulbean150 said:

the PC is used as an all rounder, videogames, emulators, streaming youtube, and media center, I want to try to preserve the sata slots for my game library, also I meant the 970, sorry about that

 

there will always be 2 sata slows disabled when using that m.2 so take that in note.

[paulbean150]

sata slows? like Raid won't work? because I don't use Raid array.

[paulbean150]

1 minute ago, paulbean150 said:

sata slows? like Raid won't work? because I don't use Raid array.

 

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

there will always be 2 sata slows disabled when using that m.2 so take that in note.

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 minutes ago, paulbean150 said:

sata slows? like Raid won't work? because I don't use Raid array.

yep, there will be a 2 sata slots disabled if you use a pcie m.2.

 

What other drives are you running?

 

edit meant 2 sata ports

[paulbean150]

i have 3 disk readers and 2 SSDs and one platter hard drive, with a 112 GB SSD that is my current boot drive

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, paulbean150 said:

i have 3 disk readers and 2 SSDs and one platter hard drive, with a 112 GB SSD that is my current boot drive

Id just replace that with a bigger sata ssd. That way you won't have to get a pcie to sata card.