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Calling M.2 owners - Speed curiosity

LambdaCat
By LambdaCat
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Does anyone have any anecdotes or things to say about the boot speed of win10 on an NVMeM.2 compared to a regular SSD?

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first of all there are many types of M.2, some are the same speed as your average sata SSD and then there are NVMe M.2 which also vary in speed a lot depending on the one you get.

 

My desktop uses normal sata SSD, but my laptop uses a NVMe. My laptop is faster at opening big programs and such and the boot is a bit faster nothing special. Those are the only areas I have noticed a difference.

I personally wouldn't get a NVMe just for boot.

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if its a sata m.2 I wouldn't say its noticeable. PCIe, without a doubt is way faster. I got a laptop recently, and didn't realize it came with a pcie m.2, it was just so much faster than my desktop booting into windows, and launching windows anything. I had installed windows on a Samsung 840 on my desktop, and it was slowing me down, I recently just reinstalled windows onto my pcie m.2 on my desktop and I regret not doing it when I bought it a year ago lol

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43 minutes ago, LambdaCat said:

Does anyone have any anecdotes or things to say about the boot speed of win10 on an NVMeM.2 compared to a regular SSD?

Its basicaly the same.

NVME is barely any faster than SATA SSD in anything other than sequential speeds where the NVME dominates (moving large files, 20GB+).

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