Samsung 960 EVO upgrade

Gredawarha · 11 Mar 2023 at 17:22

Afternoon all.

My SSD is starting to fill up and so I am thinking of upgrading to a newer drive, probably 500GB or 1TB. My current drive is a Samsung 960 EVO NVMe any recommendations for a similar or better drive in terms of speed and reliability. Also any recommendations for a PCIE card to put my existing drive into and potentially use for my documents?

Many thanks

Darren

Tetras · 11 Mar 2023 at 18:51

Gredawarha said:
any recommendations for a PCIE card to put my existing drive into and potentially use for my documents?

You mean pcie to USB, or pcie internal to plug into motherboard?

Dg834man · 11 Mar 2023 at 20:57

Think he means a pcie nvme card

Gredawarha · 11 Mar 2023 at 23:00

Tetras said:
You mean pcie to USB, or pcie internal to plug into motherboard?

Sorry I should have been clearer. I only have one NVME slot on the motherboard so I thought (perhaps wrongly) that I could get a PCIE card with an NVME slot on it and I could use that with my existing NVME when I replace the drive for a larger drive.

Tetras · 11 Mar 2023 at 23:45

Gredawarha said:
Sorry I should have been clearer. I only have one NVME slot on the motherboard so I thought (perhaps wrongly) that I could get a PCIE card with an NVME slot on it and I could use that with my existing NVME when I replace the drive for a larger drive.

Which motherboard do you have?

Gredawarha · 12 Mar 2023 at 08:47

Tetras said:
Which motherboard do you have?

B450 MSI Tomahawk II

Dg834man · 12 Mar 2023 at 12:53

Your going to be limited to pcie 2 4x in the second x16 slot but you can buy cards for £10-20 quid, SilverStone ECM25 should work. overclockers dont seem to sell pcie-nvme cards so check elsewhere.

Gredawarha · 12 Mar 2023 at 13:32

Dg834man said:
Your going to be limited to pcie 2 4x in the second x16 slot but you can buy cards for £10-20 quid, SilverStone ECM25 should work. overclockers dont seem to sell pcie-nvme cards so check elsewhere.

Thank you.