M.2 vs PCIE vs SATA?

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Which one is better, faster, and and/or possibly a better value? I do plan on having a Z170 motherboard capable of supposedly 32 Gbps M.2 ssd or something like that. Any thoughts? Thanks!
 
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AN SSD with NVMe, Like the Samsung 950 Pro, will be about 4 or 5 times faster than a SATA drive. NVMe drives use either the M.2 slot or a PCIe slot. For the majority of users, a standard SATA SSD makes more sense because they are so much cheaper and even though 5 times the performance sounds impressive, if your talking milliseconds to complete a task, will you be able to tell the difference between 5 milliseconds and 25 milliseconds? The faster drives would be more practical for someone routinely transferring very large files.
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AN SSD with NVMe, Like the Samsung 950 Pro, will be about 4 or 5 times faster than a SATA drive. NVMe drives use either the M.2 slot or a PCIe slot. For the majority of users, a standard SATA SSD makes more sense because they are so much cheaper and even though 5 times the performance sounds impressive, if your talking milliseconds to complete a task, will you be able to tell the difference between 5 milliseconds and 25 milliseconds? The faster drives would be more practical for someone routinely transferring very large files.
 
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