If I get an M.2 Sata hard drive, can I make it any drive letter?

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ie: I already have a regular SSD Sata, so can I plug in a new M.2 Sata hard drive into my motherboard, and treat that as say my X drive, and continue to boot of my old regular SSD Sata?

ie: Assume there's nothing super magical about the M.2 port and it forcing itself as the primary drive?
 
snips86x said:
Yeah, they're nasty if you have large CPU coolers.
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Having just read they're baically the same speed as a regula sata, unless you get the "full spec" versions, I might just go regular sata because of just that!

ps: Looking at Crucial MX500 or Samsung 860.
 
NeilFawcett said:
Having just read they're baically the same speed as a regula sata, unless you get the "full spec" versions, I might just go regular sata because of just that!

ps: Looking at Crucial MX500 or Samsung 860.
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What did you look at? NVMEs are considerably quicker than regular sata. Look at the Intel 660p mate, I have one and it superb!! They're 3 times quicker, if not 4 in some instances.
 
snips86x said:
What did you look at? NVMEs are considerably quicker than regular sata. Look at the Intel 660p mate, I have one and it superb!! They're 3 times quicker, if not 4 in some instances.
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chaparral said:
You want an NVME for speed

I have one of these and the speeds are amazing
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sams...-3.0-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-hd-23n-sa.html
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Yes, given I want a 2TB drive that could prove pricey compared to a regular 2TB Samsung/Crucial SSD?
 
snips86x said:
My only comment on this would be check out the Intel 660p, that 970 is overpriced in comparison to the 660p. You get more from the Intel and its a shame OcUK do not stock it.

Why not get the 1tb NVME and then a regular 1tb ssd?
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The goal is to put my D drive - a standard 1TB - which has all my games on, and which is full, onto a new 2TB SSD.

ie: Speed and loads of room for the future.

I tried Sandstorm on my regular hard drive and then on my C drive SSD, and the loading difference is astounding! And that's with a very old SSD too!

So the 2TB is more important than the speed of the SSD! But having looked that 660p is seemingly available in 2TB size for a similar price as the Samsung 860. And it has a 5yr warranty like the Samsung!

I wouldn't pay that much for it so would wait for a reduction/deal.
 
I've got the 660P 1TB coming got it for a hundred quid. A bit worried about endurance and for large file transfers apparently goes below HDD speeds which is a bit cack but for most transfers and installs should be ok. For game loading it seems to be as fast as most NVMe's.
 
willhub said:
I've got the 660P 1TB coming got it for a hundred quid. A bit worried about endurance
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Well at least the 2TB one I'd be looking at is rated as twice the endurance as the 1TB. But as I'd only be using it as a games drive, and given many games are tens of GB big, is that an issue or not? ie: Loading up Rainbow Six Seige over and over which is around 65GB in total in disk install?

willhub said:
file transfers apparently goes below HDD speeds which is a bit cack but for most transfers and installs should be ok. For game loading it seems to be as fast as most NVMe's.
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That's surprising as I though it was suppose to be significantly faster than even SSDs?
 
This video review raises a few question marks about the 660p, indeed even questioning at times if its faster than the Samsung 850/860 SSD?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OffzVc7ZB-o

Some other reviews have shown as the drive gets full its speed even halves, to say even slower than a regular Crucial MX500...

It risks feeling a touch spit and gum?
 
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