Fantastic drive for the price. I have been using one as my game drive for a while and it's been superb.
This is with Scan Computers.
960GB SanDisk Ultra II, 7mm Slim 2.5" SSD, SATA III - 6Gb/s, Read 550MB/s, Write 500MB/s, 99K IOPS
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fishmaster to smsmasters
29 Nov 154#9
Absolutely. M.2 SSDs are where it's at now for speed, they will become the norm eventually and SATA will die off. Then something else will come out. We were in the dark ages before SSDs came out, the 60 year old hard drive technology which was the biggest stumbling block in terms of a bottleneck vis a vis I/O operations and SSDs tackled this. SSDs then became limited by SATA and then we had M.2 and revisions to that and we're now at M.2 NVMe with extremely fast sequential read and write, but that's not the best thing about M.2 it's the IOPS. To answer if you need M.2 well that Reddit link I posted above answers that anecdotally. Anyway this is a seemless waffle.
Here's a technical comparison between NVMe and AHCI, new and old controller interfaces. M.2 SSDs first came out supporting AHCI and now support NVMe, NVMe doesn't use PCIe lanes, so that's the advantage, the disadvantage was compatibility, but that's solved now with Z170 chipset.
Actually the new Dell XPS laptops ship with up to 1tb M2 drives
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lukeuser
29 Nov 15#1
sweet
raysmith1971
29 Nov 151#2
960gb for £149. unbelievable ,remember paying this much for a 120gb drive and not so long ago. ssd's will just replace normal mechanical storage drives at this price.
dezontk to raysmith1971
29 Nov 15#16
That's the plan.
rev6 to raysmith1971
29 Nov 15#23
One day. You can get a 5TB HDD for this price so not yet :smiley:
jimunix to raysmith1971
30 Nov 15#25
Heat added. But spinning disks also follow moores law. Still 8 times cheaper than SSD. While that ratio continues to be maintained, SSD will not take over world.
fazzx
29 Nov 151#3
Thanks op ordered
nmarshgiddings
29 Nov 152#4
Ordered already from eBuyer for a few £ cheaper but this is probably the better deal since they use DPD rather than Yodel.
mullerum to nmarshgiddings
1 Dec 15#31
Funny after I read this mine arrived by Yodel - spotty teenager at the door grunted at me and thrust a soggy crushed box in my face. Wasn't very well packaged but luckily the drive was intact :-)
fazzx
29 Nov 15#5
you can get free DPD delivery if your a member of a certain forum.
amukid1992
29 Nov 152#6
Tempting, but gonna hold out for cyber Monday. Hoping to pick up a Samsung 850 evo.
smsmasters
29 Nov 15#7
I reckon these prices will be the norm next year.
fishmaster to smsmasters
29 Nov 154#9
Absolutely. M.2 SSDs are where it's at now for speed, they will become the norm eventually and SATA will die off. Then something else will come out. We were in the dark ages before SSDs came out, the 60 year old hard drive technology which was the biggest stumbling block in terms of a bottleneck vis a vis I/O operations and SSDs tackled this. SSDs then became limited by SATA and then we had M.2 and revisions to that and we're now at M.2 NVMe with extremely fast sequential read and write, but that's not the best thing about M.2 it's the IOPS. To answer if you need M.2 well that Reddit link I posted above answers that anecdotally. Anyway this is a seemless waffle.
Here's a technical comparison between NVMe and AHCI, new and old controller interfaces. M.2 SSDs first came out supporting AHCI and now support NVMe, NVMe doesn't use PCIe lanes, so that's the advantage, the disadvantage was compatibility, but that's solved now with Z170 chipset.
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This is with Scan Computers.
960GB SanDisk Ultra II, 7mm Slim 2.5" SSD, SATA III - 6Gb/s, Read 550MB/s, Write 500MB/s, 99K IOPS
AvForum members also get free delivery...
Top comments
Here's a technical comparison between NVMe and AHCI, new and old controller interfaces. M.2 SSDs first came out supporting AHCI and now support NVMe, NVMe doesn't use PCIe lanes, so that's the advantage, the disadvantage was compatibility, but that's solved now with Z170 chipset.
https://www.sata-io.org/system/files/member-downloads/NVMe%20and%20AHCI_%20_long_.pdf
I couldn't stop myself sorry :disappointed:
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Here's a technical comparison between NVMe and AHCI, new and old controller interfaces. M.2 SSDs first came out supporting AHCI and now support NVMe, NVMe doesn't use PCIe lanes, so that's the advantage, the disadvantage was compatibility, but that's solved now with Z170 chipset.
https://www.sata-io.org/system/files/member-downloads/NVMe%20and%20AHCI_%20_long_.pdf
I couldn't stop myself sorry :disappointed:
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/3d2uyp/discussion_are_m2_ssds_worth_it_for_desktops/
I still want an M.2 SSD though :smiley: