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

It's a cost/performance compromise.

For your suggested use case, it doesn't really raise any serious question marks that I can see.

You've already said that the capacity matters more to you than the performance.
 
bremen1874 said:
It's a cost/performance compromise.

For your suggested use case, it doesn't really raise any serious question marks that I can see.

You've already said that the capacity matters more to you than the performance.
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True, but when you see the write speed plumit to less than a regular HD, it just feels like there's a lot of stuff going on filling caches and moving caches and using the storage space as a cache etc etc which makes me question reliability. ie: The more it's playing silly buggers to get good speeds the more there is to go wrong!? ie: When there's a powercut and its still moving cache around etc etc!

I'll keep looking...

If the non NVMe Samsung 860 wasn't £100 (50%) more I'd be onto that I suspect...
 
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willhub said:
I bought my 660P to make games load faster and I needed at least 1TB, hope it doesn't dissapoint.
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Well, will be interesting to hear your feedback. And if you're going to be moving a load of data onto it, sounds you needs to be prepared to wait once you get to say 100-150GB+. Watch the video here at 7m - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OffzVc7ZB-o&t=7m9s

Let us know how you get on :)
 
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Well I've just transferred over 148GB worth of data (3 game installs) from my Evo 970 to the 660P and it transferred at around 1.5GB/s until the last 16gb where it went down to 100mb/s. Not too shabby still a super quick transfer.
 
willhub said:
Well I've just transferred over 148GB worth of data (3 game installs) from my Evo 970 to the 660P and it transferred at around 1.5GB/s until the last 16gb where it went down to 100mb/s. Not too shabby still a super quick transfer.
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Why are you moving from a Evo 970 to a 660P? Surely there's no realy speed difference to be had/noticed?

I've got 1TB to move - eek!
 
NeilFawcett said:
Why are you moving from a Evo 970 to a 660P? Surely there's no realy speed difference to be had/noticed?

I've got 1TB to move - eek!
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The 970 is boot drive and only half the size seperated it and half is for games but full so moved games off the SSD I had before into the 660p

Just move 100gb at a time you'll be done in about 5 mins if that lol
 
willhub said:
The 970 is boot drive and only half the size seperated it and half is for games but full so moved games off the SSD I had before into the 660p

Just move 100gb at a time you'll be done in about 5 mins if that lol
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Well let me know how you think the 660p compares to the 970 then when you come to use it in anger :)
 
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