Should I be taking advantage of and using the m.2 slot as my main SSD? Or just get a 2...

Should I be taking advantage of and using the m.2 slot as my main SSD? Or just get a 2.5” ssd same storage for a bit cheaper?

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What do you need an NVMe SSD for?

Near instant boot and game loading times (with 7200rpm HDD providing auxiliary storage for less demanding things like scenery)

If you don't know what you're missing. Don't go find out what you're missing.

The only reason to get one is to save space I guess. you can get them around the same price if you look but im a bit of an autist and will just go with 2.5 drives until I die

Do you want 500 MB/s or 3 GB/s? The choice is yours.

>Near instant boot

You got a link to a video of how fast boot time is? Please no linus.

If all you need it for is gaming, just use a regular SSD. The difference in gaming between NVMe and regular is minute, and not worth the extra neetbucks, unless of course you hate money and want to throw it away.

It's worth a few bucks just for the convenience of the form factor.

NVMe is really fast user, if you want it, buy it; maybe not the top of the range. Compare the speeds, the interface advantage may be well worth the extra quids.

t. 950 Pro user

How do I copy my OS from a 128gb ssd to a new 512gb m.2 ssd windows 10 without reinstalling because downloading updates takes days

The comparison of 500MB/s vs 3GB/s is a little misleading because, In system boot & application launch times it is almost identical to a normal SSD.

This.

NVMe is really on useful for large datasets.

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And difference in price is almost none. If your motherboard supports NVMe, going for SATA is just retarded.

this is interesting.

I'm still stuck on a 5600 harddrive and I've got an NVMe M.2 slot ready to use, but this shit is expensive.

So, Normal SSD or M.2?

My MacBook Pro has 2.5gb read and 2gb write and I’m selling it after I finish building my desktop so I very well know what I’m missing. I didn’t assemble a meme (8700k 1080ti etc) to have a fucking 5 second wait on start up, or a 50 second wait for x-plane to load.

So fuck off whoever writes “don’t know what your missing don’t find out what your missing” and then quotes it 10 minutes later with “best post” just fuck off.

I’m prob gonna get one because people sell them so fucking cheap second hand either used or brand new coz they need the money. My desktop starting to look a bit funny because it’s basically empty even tho it’s supercharged

>Near instant boot
Then get a SATA SSD

SATA SSDs boot faster than M.2 ones

What the fuck. Why would you put a mini board in a big case? You sacrifice slots and features to get a mini board, and then gain nothing because you just waste all the space leaving it empty.

>$0.30 per gb vs $0.46 per gb
>nothing

I have an m.2 x4 by Samsung.

It feels like Samsung is fingering my pussy every time I start the computer.

For the price of a 1TB NVMe you can get a 2TB Sata SSD.

Because it’s a z370i and came with 16gb ddr4 for $300. 8700k was $300. All brand new from impulse buyers lmao. Plus I have a water cooled 1080 ti I don't NEED more than 1 card. Ever. Because I'll get the next best when it comes out. M.2 slot available on the board and 4 slots for 4 HDD. Got everything I need.

I used Partition Wizard. It literally has a button to just do that, with an option to keep the old drive intact.

On the back it's got USB C 4 usb a usb 3.1 wifi built in, hdmi out, all audio out, fuck me it's got everything. Except 4 pci slots for 4 crap graphics cards

M. 2 have slower boot times than sata6

GPU is not the only thing you ever put in slots. 10Gbe is on the way to desktops. USB 3.1 type C is here but most boards only have 1 port of it. Thunderbolt is kinda nice too. Onboard audio may suck ass or break. Extra expansion slots are useful things to have to avoid being left behind as unforseen things come out.

You know I could buy a full size mobo and a next gen cpu could render it useless and I will need to replace it anyway. So there's that, and one of the more likely scenarios to happen out of any of the ones you suggested.

system image backup in control panel

>game loading times
I love it when people make statements like this without looking at tests.
Having a lightning fast nvme drive means fuck all if its bottlenecked elsewhere.
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Each generation of CPU brings a couple percent improvement, so meh. With the 2500k only now showing its age, I think it's safe to say a new CPU is going to be fine for a long while.

The other things next gen mobos will bring might be more important, but most of them will be available in PCIe card form.

>with 7200rpm HDD providing auxiliary storage for less demanding things like scenery
Wait, you're splitting up game data files between drives somehow?

What's bottlenecking boot or loading times from a nvme SSD with an i7 8700k and 1080 ti on an Asus z370-i?

Main program on SSD and 4TB of scenery imagery on HDD (flight sim) which renders as required during flight. Can keep scenery on a seperate drive, yes. Using that folder link thing

>I think it's safe to say a new CPU is going to be fine for a long while.
Considering were are stuck at 5nm it seems, you are probably right. If miracle doesn't happen, we might prepare just for reasonable efficiency bumps, but not performance boost.

Probably the software, engine-level bottlenecks that can only use X amount of threads, or dedicate X amount of memory to pre-loading objects.

Also the optimisation of each game will have more of an effect on loadtimes than wasting money on an SSD you wont really ever utilise. The only thing it will improve is large file transfers to other storage devices of the same speed.

Yawn. Vulkan.

Next

our list of needs in this world is very small, user

Go ahead and waste your money user, by all means.

There's like 2 games worth playing that use vulkan and it's barely getting more attention than DX12, which is dead in the water

I use an offline updater I can ignore while doing other tasks, then I save the updates for my future reinstalls. No effort, clean install, no problem. Windows performance only gets worse over time so any excuse to reload is a good one.

Ideally, perform a clean install then image that as a backup and all your future installs on that system will be cake.

I have a 2TB NVMe SSD.

For the price of a 2TB NVMe SSD, you can get a decent PC.

>using discount codes/sales ever

whats it like being poor?

For the price of a 2TB nvme you pay multiple women to touch you. With a bit of luck, they might let you see their vagen.

Obvious trust fund babby. One does not get rich by throwing their money away haphazardly and for no reason.

the units they send for sales and discounts are older and more prone to defects than full priced units

>Should I be taking advantage of and using the m.2 slot as my main SSD?
Yes, much faster than SATA.

Evidence of this? Often sales are selling off excess stock.

yes such as ones marked as potentiality defective or that have been sitting around a while

Okay

I just ordered a 512gb Intel 760p for $200. YEE HAW

>intel ssd

Dw it's the new 760p.

>intel

760p. Dw, it's new.

Does it matter if the storage size is larger when you install off a USB? I've heard stories of it partitioning to what the other HD storage size was

found the autist

Why does your keyboard looked warped as fuck?

>Updates take days

What old shitty version of Windows are you using? I can install update Windows in an hour

Looks like a keyboard wrap.

I have a PC with a 960 pro NVME and one with an 840 pro SATA.
in normie use, you won't notice a difference.

Always go with the value for money option. That doesn't mean get the cheaper stuff, just don't spend money superfluously on a small increment of performance. There's plenty of reviews that mention little difference between the two in every day use.

That's only because you're an idiot who doesn't know what a computer is.

i too went from 840 pro to 960 pro and don't notice a difference (except for the lack of cables in my case)

nvme is better at handling longer queues when you start beating on it but most of my time isn't spent running massive chromium compiles or shit like that

Why

Explain please