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.

https://www.sata-io.org/system/files/member-downloads/NVMe%20and%20AHCI_%20_long_.pdf

I couldn't stop myself sorry :disappointed:

Actually the new Dell XPS laptops ship with up to 1tb M2 drives

Expired? Link is dead, item now seems to be priced at £220.75 here

Similar here - was woken up at 8am on Sunday morning by a Polish guy hammering on the door with a soggy box. Not impressed - the drive is fine though :smiley:

Had email saying order delayed due to stock shortage. Ordered 12.10pm 30 Nov.

Ordered already from eBuyer for a few £ cheaper but this is probably the better deal since they use DPD rather than Yodel.

LOL they just created a new entry with the price now at £220.75.

I ordered on Saturday and its due for delivery today....

I was probably one of the first to place an order 2 days ago. Today I received an email from Scan saying the drive is "out of stock". Funny thing is in their website the drive still appears as in stock but to call for price. Anyone had similar experience? I’ll be mad if they don’t honour the offer, as I didn’t buy the Samsung 1Tb 850 EVO offer from Amazon, the SSD I really wanted, because I was waiting for this one.

Showing 'call for price' now.

decent SSD I hope, bought for £139 and its on its way to me :smile:

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.

Hopefully these will be £100 in the next 6 months when i plan to go full SSD with my rig.

Anyone want a new one of these but the 480GB model, £80?

And I just paid £90 for a Samsung Evo 850 500gb...

For those that missed out on the Lightning deal, smoking hot! Unlike most things you can buy, this WILL make your life better. :laughing:

cancelled ebuyer and ordered from scan, now wait 2 days rather than 8

Smoking hot deal :smile: SSDs are the future.

I can't remember for sure, the last time I looked it was a bit of a mystery but PM951 was the running theory. Now that theya re actually in peoples hand I'm sure its known for sure now

Hot because I want it at this price!! But want to vote cold as I can't afford it and wouldn't know what to do with the other 4 SSDs I've bought in the last 6 months.

That's an epic price. If I thought there was any way I could get this to fly with the financial controller I'd be all over this like butter on hot toast.

You're right! :smiley:

http://www.dell.com/uk/p/xps-15-9550-laptop/pd?oc=cnx5504&model_id=xps-15-9550-laptop

You don't happen to know which drives Dell use do you? Is it a Samsung SM951/PM951?

Actually the new Dell XPS laptops ship with up to 1tb M2 drives

SATA isn't going to die off anytime soon since there is only so much NAND you can fit on an M.2 SSD.

The largest M.2 SSD you can buy at the moment is 512GB, whereas (consumer) SATA SSDs currently max out at 2TB.

Intel's 3D XPoint NVMe SSDs will be available in the next year or two with 3.2GB/s sequential read/write speeds. :smiley:

I reckon these prices will be the norm next year.

I was assuming that M.2 SSDs are better, then I got thinking well that's an assumption, er of course, so I found this on Reddit >

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:

Tempting, but gonna hold out for cyber Monday. Hoping to pick up a Samsung 850 evo.

you can get free DPD delivery if your a member of a certain forum.

Thanks op ordered

sweet