Storage Upgrade

[Scotteh]

I currently have;

Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB - OS / Apps
Seagate 7200RPM 1TB SATA SSHD - Games

I'm looking to change this to a 1TB SSD which will store both OS/Apps and Games.

I've got an old Gigabyte X99-SLI motherboard which does have a M.2 slot but it's rated at PCI-E 2.0, so as I understand it I wouldn't benefit from the faster speeds on the higher end M.2 drives currently, I could get a M.2 to PCI-E card though which would let me run at PCIE-E 3.0 speeds?

What would the recommend SSD be these days?

 

[philo-sofa]

Add in cards can be more drama than they're worth for booting. You can get 10Gb/s bandwidth out of your x2 M.2 slot rather than 6Gb/s out of SATA II and the difference between that and a faster SSD will not be huge. So possibly a cheap M.2 SSD. Something like the Intel 660 or 665P.

But if you're going all out, a WD SN-750 or 970 EVO would work well with a PCIe 3 x4 connection.

 

[Scotteh]

Thanks, I went with the SN-750.

I won't get the full benefit from it now but going forward if I upgrade mobo then for the sake of £20 between SN550 to SN750 figured it was worth getting.

 

[Tanin'iver]

Yeah you might as well future proof it. The lack of bandwidth with it being PCI-E 2.0 rather than 3.0 would only measurably impact the sequential read/write performance anyway - other use won't hit the limitation.