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Re: Solid State Drive? 2017/11/10 01:05:35 (permalink)
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I have been seeing more and more youtube videos on these newfangled SSDs called M.2 and NVME that supposedly plug into PCIe slots. However I don't think any can be used as a C drive, but they look tempting for storage.

 
Why cant they be used as C drives? 

 
A SATA drive is generally plug-and-play, so you can install an o/s on it as soon as you connect it up, whereas an m.2 drive requires proprietary drivers.




Thanks, I'm in the position of needing to replace my C drive and I saw a good deal on the PCIe Samsung EVO's and was considering this as an option. I'll do some more research!

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Re: Solid State Drive? 2017/11/10 02:13:58 (permalink)
 
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Kev999
millzy
I have been seeing more and more youtube videos on these newfangled SSDs called M.2 and NVME that supposedly plug into PCIe slots. However I don't think any can be used as a C drive, but they look tempting for storage.
 
Why cant they be used as C drives? 
 
A SATA drive is generally plug-and-play, so you can install an o/s on it as soon as you connect it up, whereas an m.2 drive requires proprietary drivers.



Thanks, I'm in the position of needing to replace my C drive and I saw a good deal on the PCIe Samsung EVO's and was considering this as an option. I'll do some more research!

 
I recently installed a Samsung 960 EVO 250GB m.2 SSD. This model fits into an m.2 slot, not a PCIe slot, although it uses the PCIe lanes (plus SATA lanes). On benchtests it showed to be over 3 times faster than any of my standard SSDs. I'm currently using it mainly for multisamples, but I may re-allocate it to something different in future.

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