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Most of us are used to the speed of SSDs by now and know that they can really boost Boot times - well now there's a new kid on the block!
With speeds up to 3600 MB/Sec when mounted on a PCIe3 slot.
I've been building a Z800 workstation with 4 SSDs mounted in software RAID 0 which gives these speeds:
But I decided to try out the new Samsung 970 NVME M.2
A 250GB cost me £65.00 from Amazon and I had to order a card from China to accomodate it:
Once it arrived I put the Samsung SSD on it and fitted it to a x16 slot.
And nothing happened! - it turned out I needed to download a driver from Samsung - once done It installed with no problems.
A quick trip to the Disk Management in Control Panel to initiate and format it and it was good to go.
And the speed - INCREDIBLE even mounted on my PCIe2 x16 slot which does not get the full speed available:
That's right - even at approx 1/2 speed on my slots it beats even my 4 SSDs mounted in Raid 0!
The only problem I had was that it wasn't recognised by the BIOS (A 10 year old Z800) so couldn't use it as a BOOT drive.
But if anyone has a PC with PCIe3 slots this would be incredible!
And the most modern PCs, I believe, can use it as a boot drive.
But for the moment I'm considering selling my brand new SSDs and buying a 2TB version.
With speeds up to 3600 MB/Sec when mounted on a PCIe3 slot.
I've been building a Z800 workstation with 4 SSDs mounted in software RAID 0 which gives these speeds:
But I decided to try out the new Samsung 970 NVME M.2
A 250GB cost me £65.00 from Amazon and I had to order a card from China to accomodate it:
Once it arrived I put the Samsung SSD on it and fitted it to a x16 slot.
And nothing happened! - it turned out I needed to download a driver from Samsung - once done It installed with no problems.
A quick trip to the Disk Management in Control Panel to initiate and format it and it was good to go.
And the speed - INCREDIBLE even mounted on my PCIe2 x16 slot which does not get the full speed available:
That's right - even at approx 1/2 speed on my slots it beats even my 4 SSDs mounted in Raid 0!
The only problem I had was that it wasn't recognised by the BIOS (A 10 year old Z800) so couldn't use it as a BOOT drive.
But if anyone has a PC with PCIe3 slots this would be incredible!
And the most modern PCs, I believe, can use it as a boot drive.
But for the moment I'm considering selling my brand new SSDs and buying a 2TB version.
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