Recommendations for SSD and PCI motherboard adapter

katie279

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Hi all,

Looking to set up a dedicated m2 drive in my editing PC for photos/video editing as getting annoyed at how slow it is doing so over the NAS (will then backup nightly to the NAS).

Already using the only M2 slot on my motherboard for my OS etc, so need to add another PCI slot adapter.

Bit dizzy with all the various adapters/transfer speeds and so on, can anyone recommend a good adapter and drive for achieving this? Really it's for thumbnail browsing, so I can quickly sort through thousands of files without having to wait for thumbnails to slowly render. Have about 350GB photos currently, so 1-2TB size feels plenty?

Thanks in advance!
 
Thanks for this - going to order exactly as you suggest! ;)

One quick question - how performant are NVMe enclosures? I've seen them referenced in a few forum posts and they'd certainly have the advantage of being able to move my photo collection around to different PCs to edit, but don't know how much speed I'd sacrifice. Think all PCs I have would have a 3.1 connection, but imagine this would be significantly slower than PCI?
 
USB enclosures run about the same speed as SATA (600MB/s vs 1000MB/s), so if you are getting an NVMe drive you will be better off putting it inside the PC if you can, yes
I think that's for USB 3.2, so if you only have 3.1 then it will be half that
 
That silverstone one is a pretty good option, can't remember if that has activity lights on, but some in that style do.

One thing to beware of, and i've fallen foul of this, a number of the adapter cards, such as from Addonics, Startech, Lycom and a couple of the unbranded ones, the m.2 sockets do not provide enough clearance to the circuit board to use clip on heatsinks like the very nice simple EK ones. The linked Akasa one i think does have enough clearance.
 
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