NVMe based drives works fine as a boot drives with Windows 10. You must be doing something wrong or reading the wrong tech sites.
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gr8h8me
23 Jul 172#1
Its cheap but slow and lacks endurance. Better off with a SSD than this. Not much faster than sata
EagleUK to gr8h8me
23 Jul 171#2
Reads up to 3 times faster though?
K1LLER_HORNET to gr8h8me
23 Jul 172#3
This is NVME. The reads are much faster than SATA.
The write speed isn't great but lines up with top end SATA speeds.
Agharta to gr8h8me
23 Jul 17#4
The read speed is 3x that of the fastest SATA SSD and the endurance is 144TB which is fine for a 256GB drive.
Buckyball to gr8h8me
23 Jul 172#8
144TB endourance would let the drive last arounbd 10 years if you write 40 GB/day on it.
However, German c't magazin just tested longevity of SSDs. Samsung SSD 850 lasted for writing 9,1 PByte on it, which would give it a theoretical rate of 623 years to last with an average 40 GByte/day that you write on it.
phil36
23 Jul 17#5
NVMe has terrible problems running as a boot drive for windows though so for personal PCs there isnt much point to this for the price, it's great for raid though
Agharta to phil36
23 Jul 17#7
I'm surprised as most mid to high end laptops use NVMe boot drives.
I'd heard that RAID can be problematic with NVMe drives due to limited support!
taras to phil36
23 Jul 17#10
most of the problems seems to be either bios and people not realising the setup is different on w10 with nvme, and or trying to do raid with shared resources.
nvme and raid currently don't mix too well
fishmaster to phil36
23 Jul 173#13
NVMe based drives works fine as a boot drives with Windows 10. You must be doing something wrong or reading the wrong tech sites.
Ev0lution to phil36
23 Jul 17#15
Eh what are you on about? I've used a 512GB Samsung 950 Pro M.2 as my Win 10 Pro Boot drive on my latest build desktop for almost 6 months now and never had a single issue with it.
HHNNNGGG to phil36
23 Jul 17#18
This has been my boot drive all year and it's perfectly fine.
PatkW to phil36
24 Jul 171#26
Huh? My PC boots from cold into Windows 10 in about 3 seconds from a 512Gb Samsung 960 Pro. Not seeing any boot problems here.
CHAOSEN3 to phil36
24 Jul 17#29
This hasn't been a problem for a long long time..
aLV426
23 Jul 17#6
Heat added - although why is the price going up?
gr8h8me
23 Jul 17#9
Still a cheap end M.2 and slow as I said before.....Its not Samsung either..£40 more would get you a Samsung
K1LLER_HORNET
23 Jul 171#11
That's incredible.
Samsung is king of SSD's.
Agharta
23 Jul 171#12
Which is 50% more and for typical home users the real world performance difference is rarely noticeable.
taras
23 Jul 171#14
it works fine assuming your board, supports uefi (uefi booting) and secure boot (for w10) and along with no shared resources on the pcie slots .. And really all mobos that have m.2 or u.2 slots should be doing
Dan__
23 Jul 17#16
I got one of these free as part of the motherboard deal that I bought earlier this year. After doing research, checking reviews etc I found it wasn't great so I just sold it. Didn't even try it.
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Intel 600p 256GB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD/Solid State Drive; 256GB Intel 600p Series, M.2 (22x80) PCIe 3.0 (x4) NVMe SSD, 3D TLC NAND, Read 1570MB/s, Write 540MB/s, 112k IOPS
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The write speed isn't great but lines up with top end SATA speeds.
However, German c't magazin just tested longevity of SSDs. Samsung SSD 850 lasted for writing 9,1 PByte on it, which would give it a theoretical rate of 623 years to last with an average 40 GByte/day that you write on it.
I'd heard that RAID can be problematic with NVMe drives due to limited support!
nvme and raid currently don't mix too well
Samsung is king of SSD's.