Hi 
I'm happpy user of Corsair Force GS 128 GB SSD (for 3 or even more years, bought it shortly after it's release). Looks like it's still totally fine (no bad sectors, etc), but I wanted to upgrade some old notebook's drive to make it work (at least) sligtly faster. Why not to give it my old SSD and buy myself a new one.
I thought about m2 drives, because I don't need any additional place, wires and PCI-E slots.
I wonder if I can get something like 2x faster (or close to it). I'd like to see some performance boost (I know that it's not gonna be even half as big as change from HDD to SSD, but still - there would be no point in buying something that's not noticeably better)
SATA and PCI-E are also an option (6Gb/s limitation for SATA and need for another empty slot for PCI-E hurts though (literally HOT R9 390 and ASUS Xonar DX does not help))
My motherboard is Z97-A from ASUS. (it has some limitations for m2 drives)
I'm intrested only in 120/128 GB drives (more would be just waste of money, less... well, 90 and maybe even 64 would be enough too but I don't see many drives in this size. Let's just stick to ~120 GB)
About the price... I'd like something adequate to it's price. Definitely not gonna spend much more for a few percents of performance.
Plextor M6e Series 128GB M.2 (PX-G128M6e) looks pretty cool, Samsung SM951-NVMe 128GB PCIe looks even better (but it's not (fully?) suppoted by my MB, at least as far as I know)
As always, sorry for bad English - I can't help it
I'm happpy user of Corsair Force GS 128 GB SSD (for 3 or even more years, bought it shortly after it's release). Looks like it's still totally fine (no bad sectors, etc), but I wanted to upgrade some old notebook's drive to make it work (at least) sligtly faster. Why not to give it my old SSD and buy myself a new one.
I thought about m2 drives, because I don't need any additional place, wires and PCI-E slots.
I wonder if I can get something like 2x faster (or close to it). I'd like to see some performance boost (I know that it's not gonna be even half as big as change from HDD to SSD, but still - there would be no point in buying something that's not noticeably better)
SATA and PCI-E are also an option (6Gb/s limitation for SATA and need for another empty slot for PCI-E hurts though (literally HOT R9 390 and ASUS Xonar DX does not help))
My motherboard is Z97-A from ASUS. (it has some limitations for m2 drives)
I'm intrested only in 120/128 GB drives (more would be just waste of money, less... well, 90 and maybe even 64 would be enough too but I don't see many drives in this size. Let's just stick to ~120 GB)
About the price... I'd like something adequate to it's price. Definitely not gonna spend much more for a few percents of performance.
Plextor M6e Series 128GB M.2 (PX-G128M6e) looks pretty cool, Samsung SM951-NVMe 128GB PCIe looks even better (but it's not (fully?) suppoted by my MB, at least as far as I know)
As always, sorry for bad English - I can't help it
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