I would love one of these but I just can't afford one! Sooo much faster than any of the old SATA connected SSD's but unfortunately, a lot more expensive too.
Now if you are only comparing cost/GB to ordinary SSD's then you will probably have already clicked on cold by now(!) but if you're want, and can afford, the best then I've not seen these cheaper than this.
(maybe I should see what I can flog on ebay to raise some funds?)
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spudzy
15 Jan 164#9
You really need to do your research here for this one it's not like adding a normal SSD
1) Make sure you have the right slot on your motherboard or get a PCIE adapter (which is just as fast as motherboard slot)
2) Make sure that your motherboard supports the full bandwidth PCIE 3.0 x4 rather than x2 or else you wont get the full speed out of the memory
3) Make sure your bios is NVME compatible not just AHCI
4) make sure you have adequate cooling for this which they don't make easy because they void warranted for removing the sticker across the memory modules. Otherwise you can run up against thermal throttling (slowing down when it gets hot). I made a little custom heat spreader with a small piece of copper plate I go from ebay and thermal grease under the motherboard it also makes contact with the case further cooling the memory really works a treat.
5) Make sure you unplug other storage drive before installing window on it
The drive is blazing fast and it does make a difference on booting windows 10 and loading games I have the 250gb version of this drive with ASROCK Z170 Gaming-ITX/AC motherboard. seeing I was putting it in an ITX case. Speed test show I'm getting full speed and the 500GB version is even a little faster.
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New2Deals
15 Jan 162#1
Seriously fast, lowest price I've seen. Hot.
jasee
15 Jan 16#2
Your motherboard has to support them, if not you can buy adapters but I don't think they run as fast?
rev6 to jasee
15 Jan 16#3
You can buy adapters.
hitman007
15 Jan 16#4
On paper these drives should be quick, but not sure that they make that much difference to game load times?
rev6
15 Jan 16#5
Depends on the game but I don't think even SATA SSD's are worth it in most cases for games compared to the £/GB HDD's give us at the moment.
Gkains
15 Jan 162#6
Missing from the OP is the all important physical size as M.2 slots are a complete mess:
This 2280 so that's 80mm long. Aside from being PCIe and not SATA, a lot of laptops would not be physically be able to fit these.
Like I said, M.2 is real mess of a specification. My current favourite example being the HP Elitebook 840 G1/G2 (think 820 and 850 would be the same), where HP despite having 60mm space decided to only give a 42mm slot, which they changed in the G2 revision despite their otherwise identical layout:
Anyway this probably all academic since aside from being PCIe these have 8.9W peak power consumption and are probably not suitable for ultrabooks and probably require some kind of cooling: http://anandtech.com/show/9702/samsung-950-pro-ssd-review-256gb-512gb
Not voted either way.
jasee
15 Jan 162#7
Duuh! Didn't I say that???????
rev6
15 Jan 161#8
:confused:
spudzy
15 Jan 164#9
You really need to do your research here for this one it's not like adding a normal SSD
1) Make sure you have the right slot on your motherboard or get a PCIE adapter (which is just as fast as motherboard slot)
2) Make sure that your motherboard supports the full bandwidth PCIE 3.0 x4 rather than x2 or else you wont get the full speed out of the memory
3) Make sure your bios is NVME compatible not just AHCI
4) make sure you have adequate cooling for this which they don't make easy because they void warranted for removing the sticker across the memory modules. Otherwise you can run up against thermal throttling (slowing down when it gets hot). I made a little custom heat spreader with a small piece of copper plate I go from ebay and thermal grease under the motherboard it also makes contact with the case further cooling the memory really works a treat.
5) Make sure you unplug other storage drive before installing window on it
The drive is blazing fast and it does make a difference on booting windows 10 and loading games I have the 250gb version of this drive with ASROCK Z170 Gaming-ITX/AC motherboard. seeing I was putting it in an ITX case. Speed test show I'm getting full speed and the 500GB version is even a little faster.
torquatus to spudzy
16 Jan 16#13
torquatus to spudzy
16 Jan 16#14
I'm sure this would receive adequate passive cooling in most systems, in that dedicated cooling would be a little overboard. Thermal throttling is a CPU technology, which have different dissipation requirements, and the slowing down you mention is probably due to another CPU/mobo power saving scheme - these drives simply do not have the capacity to 'slow down' based on thermal sensation. If this needed cooling it would come with a pre-fitted heatsink as a minimum solution, or else at least appear as an advisory. Probably why they don't sell them in metal cases not unlike SSDs! Agree with most of your points but thought I had to flag this up as memory is Samsung's business, they know what they are doing. If they put a sticker over it, it's for a reason. It's their only condom.
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Opening post
Now if you are only comparing cost/GB to ordinary SSD's then you will probably have already clicked on cold by now(!) but if you're want, and can afford, the best then I've not seen these cheaper than this.
(maybe I should see what I can flog on ebay to raise some funds?)
Top comments
1) Make sure you have the right slot on your motherboard or get a PCIE adapter (which is just as fast as motherboard slot)
2) Make sure that your motherboard supports the full bandwidth PCIE 3.0 x4 rather than x2 or else you wont get the full speed out of the memory
3) Make sure your bios is NVME compatible not just AHCI
4) make sure you have adequate cooling for this which they don't make easy because they void warranted for removing the sticker across the memory modules. Otherwise you can run up against thermal throttling (slowing down when it gets hot). I made a little custom heat spreader with a small piece of copper plate I go from ebay and thermal grease under the motherboard it also makes contact with the case further cooling the memory really works a treat.
5) Make sure you unplug other storage drive before installing window on it
The drive is blazing fast and it does make a difference on booting windows 10 and loading games I have the 250gb version of this drive with ASROCK Z170 Gaming-ITX/AC motherboard. seeing I was putting it in an ITX case. Speed test show I'm getting full speed and the 500GB version is even a little faster.
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This 2280 so that's 80mm long. Aside from being PCIe and not SATA, a lot of laptops would not be physically be able to fit these.
Like I said, M.2 is real mess of a specification. My current favourite example being the HP Elitebook 840 G1/G2 (think 820 and 850 would be the same), where HP despite having 60mm space decided to only give a 42mm slot, which they changed in the G2 revision despite their otherwise identical layout:
Anyway this probably all academic since aside from being PCIe these have 8.9W peak power consumption and are probably not suitable for ultrabooks and probably require some kind of cooling:
http://anandtech.com/show/9702/samsung-950-pro-ssd-review-256gb-512gb
Not voted either way.
1) Make sure you have the right slot on your motherboard or get a PCIE adapter (which is just as fast as motherboard slot)
2) Make sure that your motherboard supports the full bandwidth PCIE 3.0 x4 rather than x2 or else you wont get the full speed out of the memory
3) Make sure your bios is NVME compatible not just AHCI
4) make sure you have adequate cooling for this which they don't make easy because they void warranted for removing the sticker across the memory modules. Otherwise you can run up against thermal throttling (slowing down when it gets hot). I made a little custom heat spreader with a small piece of copper plate I go from ebay and thermal grease under the motherboard it also makes contact with the case further cooling the memory really works a treat.
5) Make sure you unplug other storage drive before installing window on it
The drive is blazing fast and it does make a difference on booting windows 10 and loading games I have the 250gb version of this drive with ASROCK Z170 Gaming-ITX/AC motherboard. seeing I was putting it in an ITX case. Speed test show I'm getting full speed and the 500GB version is even a little faster.