NVMe vs M.2

ZeroG

ZeroG

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I'm looking to buy a larger capacity drive for my Steam library. Currently it's on a 6TB SATA drive and taking up approx 2.5TB, which is only a small part of my Steam library. I'm sure there are some games that would benefit from load times etc on a faster drive.

I thought about an M.2 drive like https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t2b0b-hd-54n-wd.html but reading up a little it disables 2x sata ports (is this true?). But there's also this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...d-state-drive-cssd-f960gbmp510-hd-065-cs.html which is a little more expensive.

My motherboard is an MSI X99A SLI PLUS which does have an M.2 slot however is the NVMe drive compatible with this board?
 
Looking around at prices and performance it might just be the case of getting a 1TB SSD and putting my most used games on it and keeping everything else on my 6TB drive.

Not keeping up with the latest technology I didn't realise there was diffent issues with the likes of QLC etc.
 
This is what always confuses me when looking for new hardware so I try and do research and seek as much advice as possible {which sometimes leaves me even more confused when getting conflicting information in reviews and such).

A piece of hardware looks great at a certain price until you start reading about it. Different manufacturers have different terms for same tech etc.

My current SSDs are fairly old. Windows is installed on a 500GB Samsung SSD 840 Evo and a 120GB OCZ Vertex2 for some random small games.
 
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