PC build question
Gigabyte mobo GA-Z170X Gaming 7. Can I use as my harddrive a Samsung 950 PRO Series - 256GB PCIe NVMe and place it in the PCIE1_1 slot? If I can, will that be better performance that using Samsung 850 PRO in a SATA port? If the performance is better, will it be barely noticeable or will it be dramatically better?
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John
Thanks and I was happy to help.
SATA III is limited to 600 MB/Sec. NVMe can reach PCIx bus speeds. If you look at the specs of the drives, NVMe drives usually have read speeds 3-6x faster than SSD on a SATA port and write speeds are OFTEN but not always 2-4x faster.
For example, (and these aren't exact matches to what you have), the Samsung 850 EVO 250GB (according to Micro Center's sales specs) is a 540 MB Read, 520 MB Write, while the NVMe Samsung 960 EVO 250 is 3200 MB Read, 1800 MB Write.
http://www.microcenter.com/endeca/CompareV2.aspx?returnUrl=L3NlYXJjaC9zZWFyY2hfcmVzdWx0cy5hc3B4P049NDI5NDk0NTc3OSA0Mjk0OTY1MDg2JnBhZ2U9MQ%3D%3D
For example, (and these aren't exact matches to what you have), the Samsung 850 EVO 250GB (according to Micro Center's sales specs) is a 540 MB Read, 520 MB Write, while the NVMe Samsung 960 EVO 250 is 3200 MB Read, 1800 MB Write.
http://www.microcenter.com/endeca/CompareV2.aspx?returnUrl=L3NlYXJjaC9zZWFyY2hfcmVzdWx0cy5hc3B4P049NDI5NDk0NTc3OSA0Mjk0OTY1MDg2JnBhZ2U9MQ%3D%3D
I have the very fast drive but in my normal daily use , it does not appear (to me) to always be that much faster.