SATA and NVME the same price?

jrwagh333

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I've been looking to add in a second M.2 for some extra space for games, so the drive doesnt need to be super fast.

I was initially looking for a 1TB SATA M.2 but it seems that NVME drives are the same price for the same amount of storage?
 
I was in the same situation.

I picked up a Sabrant Rocket 2TB for £235
https://www.sabrent.com/product/SB-...al-ssd-maximum-performance-solid-state-drive/

This works on my Z97 motherboard in the M2 slot which is PCEi 2x only and provides slighly better speeds than my Samsung EVO 850 SATA drives

I ordered this adapter for another £30
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/aqua...-adapter-for-m.2-ngff-pcie-ssd-cc-003-aq.html

Hopefully this should do for a while and allow games textures to load in quicker and a bit of future proofing when I swap motherboard, cpu and ram
 
No point in getting a M.2 SATA drive unless it's specifically to go in a M.2 slot that supports only SATA. I don't know if there are many M.2 slots on motherboards like that. Most support either NVMe or SATA. Best check the motherboard manual first though, just to be sure.

There is a small cost difference, depending on which brands you're looking at, but it's not large enough to warrant buying a M.2 SATA over NVMe; especially not when you've got a NVMe already and another will give you really fast transfer speeds between them.
 
Marsman said:
No point in getting a M.2 SATA drive unless it's specifically to go in a M.2 slot that supports only SATA. I don't know if there are many M.2 slots on motherboards like that. Most support either NVMe or SATA. Best check the motherboard manual first though, just to be sure.

There is a small cost difference, depending on which brands you're looking at, but it's not large enough to warrant buying a M.2 SATA over NVMe; especially not when you've got a NVMe already and another will give you really fast transfer speeds between them.
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Depends what motherboard he has. Mine says this

"1 x M.2 PCIe connector
(Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280 SATA & PCIe SSD support)"

OP, what motherboard do you have? As already said, if it supports NVMe with PCEi 4x get one. If not, get an NVMe adapter and still get one :D
 
I have an Aorus X570-i ITX board. It has 2 M.2 slots. One in the front and one in the rear supporting PCIe Gen4.

I really don't think Gen4 is worth the premium though just for games.
 
jrwagh333 said:
I have an Aorus X570-i ITX board. It has 2 M.2 slots. One in the front and one in the rear supporting PCIe Gen4.

I really don't think Gen4 is worth the premium though just for games.
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Do you already have an NVMe M2 or is it SATA?
I read game load times for things like textures was faster and if the premium isnt much, then why not get the fastest? It might not be fully used yet but with PS5 coming, I expect games will require much quicker SSDs sooner than we think
 
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Do you already have an NVMe M2 or is it SATA?
I read game load times for things like textures was faster and if the premium isnt much, then why not get the fastest? It might not be fully used yet but with PS5 coming, I expect games will require much quicker SSDs sooner than we think
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That will be nvme mate as its a x570 motherboard
 
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