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Hi, I'm in the market for a second 500GB SSD. I thought my 500GB Samsung 850 Pro would do the job when I bought my rig two years ago, but after falling in love with Oculus and VR I have nowhere near enough HDD space for my pancake games and my VR games.
My mobo is an MSI Z170A Gaming M5 with the following slots available:
I believe I have three worthy options but am not very knowledgeable on the topic. Can you help advise?
Assuming my Mobo has the ports to support any of those options, what would you advise?
Thanks!
My mobo is an MSI Z170A Gaming M5 with the following slots available:
- 6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports (4 ports reserved for SATA Express port)
- 2 x M.2 Key M Socket support type 2280/2260/2242 storage devices in both PCIE Gen3 x4 & SATA mode
- Supports PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s standards, 4.2cm/ 6cm/ 8cm length M.2 SSD cards
- Supports PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe Mini-SAS SSD with Turbo U.2 Host Card
- 2 x SATAe ports (PCIe 3.0 x2)
I believe I have three worthy options but am not very knowledgeable on the topic. Can you help advise?
- Simply buy a second 500GB 850 Pro.
- I noticed there is a newer 860 Pro for the exactly the same price. Is a newer model at the same price a no-brainer? Or will I cause compatibility/mobo/data-transfer issues by running two separate models?
- Also in the same price range, I could get a 960 EVO NVMe M.2 SSD.
I'm not too familiar with it apart from "it should be faster". Again, same price range and even newer and faster, does that imply no-brainer? Also is my mobo fully compatible with it?
Assuming my Mobo has the ports to support any of those options, what would you advise?
Thanks!
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