Two more items:
good article about thermal throttling prevention(normal C drive usage won't have it really): NVMe SSD Thermal Throttling Preventions | Nasi Lemak Tech
And price to performance: If you are one of the users that do a clean install quite often, it would be better to invest in a 2.5" 950 Samsung Pro.
Mine stays pretty cool most of the time, have not seen any heat issues. But I keep my fans on a high setting. :)
Only thing I really care about Is theoretical MAX RW and IOPS. The higher IOPS the better performance. Also size matters. The bigger drive the faster it is. I would purchase a 2TB NVMe drive over a 256GB any time if speed is important, even if price is steep. Bigger drives also last longer and are less affected by performance degradation when you start filling the drive.
Unfortunately I'm not in the position to buy larger ones or two of them but I do need another SSD and will transfer my slower and smaller one to second computer because it's drowning with a slow HDD. This one is only slightly more expensive than same size SATA SSD and size is still all right as most of stuff is kept on HDDs. So I figured, why not faster than slower drive.
I went from a Samsung 2.5" SSD to a Samsung 250 GB 960 Evo M.2. As everyone has said, most things are pretty much the same. But I did feel everything was just a little more responsive and quicker. On my set up, I have noticed no heat issues at all and haven't seen/noticed any slowdowns. I transferred an 87 GB file last night and saw no slow downs in transfer speed.
Tnx. guys, I'm ordering it now, just waiting for confirmation of the order. As it's not from a store bur online I will probably have to wait a week to get it. I guess it's a straight forward job to restore MR image to it ?
Mike, I know nothing about AMD boards, but on my Intel board, I had to make a couple of BIOS changes mostly to allow booting from PCIe drives. Download the latest driver from Samsung also.
I do know I did a clean install. When everything started I went downstairs to get something to drink. When I came back up, I was expecting it to still be expanding files. As I came up the stairs, I could hear Cortana talking about the setup, from the desktop.
On my MB, M2 port is positioned above the first PCIe and therefore above, not under GPU so I guess heat is not going to be any issue.
