What Would You Recommend For Fastest Boot Drive?

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Hello all, I'm wondering what the all out fastest 500GB drive there is for booting these days. I'm not very familiar with PCI-E options but I like the idea of them. One less power cable, one less sata cable and I really don't need much storage space, the machine really only needs one drive period and I'm not that concerned about cost but I don't want to spend $500 either. For now, without knowing too much I purchased a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB sata SSD for my newer build which is a Kaby Lake I7 7700K with MSI z270 Gaming M5 board along with some G Skill Trident ram, my video card will be whatever I have laying around for a little bit. I have a 1080 in one of my machines and may be buying a 1080ti in the near future.

Anyhow, any drive suggestions? I plan on turning my machine off often so a quick boot time is ideal and I'm not new to SSDs. I have a raid setup and a 500gig Samsung in other machines but I am not up to date with the latest and greatest options when it comes to storage.
 
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The Samsung 960 Pro 512GB M.2 is the fastest you can get, it has great reliability and costs about AU$450
Having said that, coming from a SATA3 SSD to an M.2 you won't see much difference in boot times. Latency is already very low with any SSD. The big difference comes when you are doing large file transfers (or lots of them). So from a boot perspective you should be fine even with your S850 EVO.
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The Samsung 960 Pro 512GB M.2 is the fastest you can get, it has great reliability and costs about AU$450
Having said that, coming from a SATA3 SSD to an M.2 you won't see much difference in boot times. Latency is already very low with any SSD. The big difference comes when you are doing large file transfers (or lots of them). So from a boot perspective you should be fine even with your S850 EVO.
 
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Thanks a lot for your response and insight. I guess it's definitely not worth spending 3x the cost I paid to have a very slightly faster drive. I purchased my Evo850 for $160 shipped. When I received it I discovered the serial numbers didn't match so I got a $100 refund and replacement drive. Basically got the SSD for $60 at this point :D Can't beat that, I thought my $500 Gigabyte 1080 Xtreme was a good deal.
 
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You might be able to increase boot times changing some bios settings. Also disable startup items in task manager. And use sleep or hibernation mode to use low power but have your computer turn on in about 5 seconds. [Boot times will always be longer doing a restart instead of shut down.]
 
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