M.2 Drive

freddie64 · 7 Jul 2019 at 12:28

gazref said:
Picked up the corsair 510 too after reading this thread. Drives on 12.2 firmware but not getting the advertised speeds. 1500 read and write. Seeing benchmarks of 3000+ R/W

b45 aorus pro FW40
clean OS install

Any ideas what it might be.

Are you using the top M.2 slot?

Top slot is PCIE 3.0 x4, the bottom one is PCIE 3.0 x2.

gazref · 7 Jul 2019 at 19:41

Had no configurable bios options but swapping slots to the one hidden behind the gfx did the job. 3000/2800 w/r
thanks

ned42 · 9 Jul 2019 at 02:53

cheers guys for all these replays :eek:

FredFlint · 14 Jul 2019 at 20:55

Just ordered a corsair 510 1920Gb, will be running it in a PCIe 4x gen 2 slot so only half speed but should be 3x faster than a SATA.

nlel1975 · 15 Jul 2019 at 14:36

I've just ordered one myself seemed to be the best value for money. My motherboard supports PCIe 3.0 x4.

FredFlint · 18 Jul 2019 at 18:35

Just Installed my new corsair 510 1920GB(1788GB formatted) in the bottom 16x PCIe slot, think it runs @ 4x gen 2. Looks like it works, gets 1755MB read, 1716 write.

ninezerofive · 18 Jul 2019 at 19:15

FredFlint said:
Just Installed my new corsair 510 1920GB(1788GB formatted) in the bottom 16x PCIe slot, think it runs @ 4x gen 2. Looks like it works, gets 1755MB read, 1716 write.

I had those speeds when I was running in x2 mode. You sure it's on x4?

FredFlint · 18 Jul 2019 at 19:43

ninezerofive said:
I had those speeds when I was running in x2 mode. You sure it's on x4?

My motherboard(C6H) only has one full speed m.2 port, I am using a PCIe adapter card into a slot that is 4x gen 2 so it's half speed of 4x gen 3, still much faster than SATA so I am happy.

ninezerofive · 18 Jul 2019 at 19:47

FredFlint said:
My motherboard(C6H) only has one full speed m.2 port, I am using a PCIe adapter card into a slot that is 4x gen 2 so it's half speed of 4x gen 3, still much faster than SATA so I am happy.

Oh, I see !

nlel1975 · 18 Jul 2019 at 20:52

FredFlint said:
Just Installed my new corsair 510 1920GB(1788GB) formatted.

Drives marketed as 2TB usually format as 1810GB. If you go into the disk management it will say it’s 1863GB. I’ve got a supposed 2TB external drive which exhibits this behavior.

FredFlint · 18 Jul 2019 at 20:59

nlel1975 said:
Drives marketed as 2TB usually format as 1810GB. If you go into the disk management it will say it’s 1863GB. I’ve got a supposed 2TB external drive which exhibits this behavior.

This drive is sold as a 1920GB drive, formatting with NTFS it has: 1788.48GB, for ~£250 thats not bad.

silk186 · 18 Jul 2019 at 21:02

Samsung 970 Evo is good when they go on sale.

nlel1975 · 19 Jul 2019 at 09:16

FredFlint said:
This drive is sold as a 1920GB drive, formatting with NTFS it has: 1788.48GB, for ~£250 thats not bad.

Yeah my point was 1788GB is only 22GB less than a drive marketed as 2TB holds. I wasn’t being critical quite the opposite.

freddie64 · 20 Jul 2019 at 08:16

Q: My new drive is only showing as XXXgb when it's a YYYgb drive/
A: This is perfectly normal, Computers count a kilobyte as 1024bytes (2 to the power of 10), and 1gb as 1024mb, Hard drive manufacturers count them as 1000. This means that it's normal for a 120gb drive to show up as something like 111gb, you will also "lose" some space due to the overheads imposed by the file system when you format.

nlel1975 · 20 Jul 2019 at 12:07

I know that just impressed that a drive marketed as 1920GB holds just 22GB less than one marketed as 2000GB. There’s supposedly an 80GB difference but it’s only 22GB.

Alan1969 · 20 Jul 2019 at 18:27

I am finding that sata SSD are perfectly fine - the crucial mx500 has had good reviews. I have installed a Samsung 970 evo nvme m.2 into my daughters PC and I didn't see any noticeable real world benefits in terms of speed as compared to a sata SSD even though the benchmarks show a large difference. I suppose that's the difference between very fast and really fast.

There is a huge difference however between a HDD and a sata SSD.

Alan1969 · 20 Jul 2019 at 18:28

Alan1969 said:
the corsair force does well in reviews for its price - I am considering getting this one. I got my daughter a fast Samsung and in real world usage I don't notice much difference compared to a sata ssd - so therefore the corsair force should be more than fast enough in normal situations

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...d-state-drive-cssd-f960gbmp510-hd-065-cs.html

My recommendation is a corsair force from reviews - it has good speed for a good price. You could get the 1TB one for £125 or the 2TB for £250

nlel1975 · 20 Jul 2019 at 18:40

I was contemplating getting another small NVMe SSD to replace my current Crucial 2.5” 256GB SATA SSD purely for the speed but then decided it would be more worthwhile to get a larger capacity at the same time so I ordered the 1920GB Corsair MP510.

This was the best price vs performance as far as I could see and at least I get more storage space if I can only notice the increased speed in benchmarks.

nlel1975 · 23 Jul 2019 at 17:17

Installed my new Corsair Force MP510 1920GB this afternoon, took about 3 hours as I spent an hour trying to screw it in with the screw already on the motherboard.

Eventually I realised there just wasn't enough thread to screw it in with this screw so I pinched one of the screws holding the motherboard down which had a longer thread.

Didn't tighten it fully just enough to hold it in place. Windows shows capacity of 1.74TB and disk management 1787.90TB.

I've tested its performance and get 3460 Read 3216 Write Sequential MB/s and 279,052 Read 247,558 Write Random (IOPS) using the Samsung Magician software which my brother put me onto as he has a 970 EVO Plus.

nlel1975 · 24 Jul 2019 at 14:04

I've been reading this about installing an NVMe drive...

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/install-nvme-m2-ssd-hard-drive/

You're supposed to use the standoff mount but I just couldn't get it to screw on so I removed the standoff mount and just used a normal screw instead, finger tight so as not to bend the drive.

This should be ok right? I've just had another go and couldn't fit it with the standoff mount.