Worth getting a M.2 Drive?

InfernoUk · 28 Nov 2015 at 13:47

Hey guys

So i just got a Gigabyte X99 SLI board and it has M.2 compatibility.

I know little to nothing about M.2 but im wondering does it provide any advantage over my Samsung 850 PRO SSD's? Like a large enough improvement to justify it?

Any comment on what the go to option is?

Cheers

HEADRAT · 28 Nov 2015 at 14:46

InfernoUk said:
Like a large enough improvement to justify it?

Nope, buy it if you want it, game load times are pretty much the same.

koolpc · 28 Nov 2015 at 14:49

I wouldn't bother at the moment

Sparx · 28 Nov 2015 at 16:13

Not coming from a Sammy 850 Pro, no noticeably improvement at all if you ask me.

seanyc5 · 29 Nov 2015 at 18:26

Yeah I only got mine as I needed more storage anyway and its a neat solution being mobo mounted. Im sure in time they will surpass SSDs, or will SATA IV be out by then haha.

shamus21 · 30 Nov 2015 at 21:00

No but if you want something new to play with why not.

rtho782 · 1 Dec 2015 at 09:13

You'll eat some PCIe lanes using it, so don't do it if you have say, a 5820k with 28 lanes and want to do 3/4 way SLI/Xfire

bledd · 1 Dec 2015 at 10:01

If my motherboard natively supported them, I'd have to have one.

David Bisset · 1 Dec 2015 at 15:30

rtho782 said:
You'll eat some PCIe lanes using it, so don't do it if you have say, a 5820k with 28 lanes and want to do 3/4 way SLI/Xfire

28 lanes with 3-way SLI/xfire is 8 lanes each, leaving 4 spare, so you can do it.
4-way we can't SLI but can do xfire, 4 lanes each, leaving 12 spare, so it's fine.