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I currently have a Samsung 1 TB SSD 840 EVO SATA, which I use as my Windows 10 drive and for data (games etc).
Some of the games lag a bit on disk I/O (saves etc), so I was wondering about getting a faster (2 TB) drive, but I don't know much about M.2. My motherboard is a Gigabyte Z370-HD3, and it has 2 free PCI Express x16 slots, running at x4 (PCI Express 3.0 standard). I believe I can use an M.2 drive in one of those slots, with a suitable adapter, e.g., https://www.overclockers.co.uk/akasa-m.2-ssd-to-pcie-adapter-card-cc-008-ak.html. Is that right?
Would I see much of a performance improvement for disk accesses?
Finally, how easy would it be to clone my existing SSD (the O/S drive) to the new drive? I think Samsung have cloning software for download, but WD don't?
Thanks
Some of the games lag a bit on disk I/O (saves etc), so I was wondering about getting a faster (2 TB) drive, but I don't know much about M.2. My motherboard is a Gigabyte Z370-HD3, and it has 2 free PCI Express x16 slots, running at x4 (PCI Express 3.0 standard). I believe I can use an M.2 drive in one of those slots, with a suitable adapter, e.g., https://www.overclockers.co.uk/akasa-m.2-ssd-to-pcie-adapter-card-cc-008-ak.html. Is that right?
Would I see much of a performance improvement for disk accesses?
Finally, how easy would it be to clone my existing SSD (the O/S drive) to the new drive? I think Samsung have cloning software for download, but WD don't?
Thanks