I am building a new work machine and as I am dealing with a lot of large photos and such I would love to have as much performance as I can afford at the moment.
My motherboard, Asus H97 Pro has an M.2 slot on it. I was considering picking up a 128 gb Plextor for it which has an equivalent price of $114 where I am and using that as my C drive and to install the programs I use, photoshop, capture one, lightroom, and other smaller programs.
I was also looking at a SSD Samsung 840 evo in 250 gb flavor at $137 dollars.
I have a 64 gb Kingston SSD that I can use to stick my working files on then transfer them to a RAID1 and NAS for storage and backup.
From the benchmarks I could find (passmark) it seems that the 840 evo and the Plextor M.2 dont have much between them in terms of speed, the M.2 maybe being only a few percent faster, maybe suggesting that it is not living up to the potential of its interface. A friend said I should wait for Samsung to enter the M.2 scene and shake things up as they will probably be faster and utilize the port better than whats out there now as it seems the M.2 tech has not matured yet.
Thoughts?
My motherboard, Asus H97 Pro has an M.2 slot on it. I was considering picking up a 128 gb Plextor for it which has an equivalent price of $114 where I am and using that as my C drive and to install the programs I use, photoshop, capture one, lightroom, and other smaller programs.
I was also looking at a SSD Samsung 840 evo in 250 gb flavor at $137 dollars.
I have a 64 gb Kingston SSD that I can use to stick my working files on then transfer them to a RAID1 and NAS for storage and backup.
From the benchmarks I could find (passmark) it seems that the 840 evo and the Plextor M.2 dont have much between them in terms of speed, the M.2 maybe being only a few percent faster, maybe suggesting that it is not living up to the potential of its interface. A friend said I should wait for Samsung to enter the M.2 scene and shake things up as they will probably be faster and utilize the port better than whats out there now as it seems the M.2 tech has not matured yet.
Thoughts?
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