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      01-08-2017, 03:18 PM   #36
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Questions in regards to SSD. I currently have a 2TB WD Black boot drive, and another secondary 1TB WD Black boot drive.

My case three 3.5" bays, plus a slot for an M.2 drive.

1) Does it make more sense to use a Corsair 2.5" to 3.5" adapter that fits two 2.5" SSD drives? Or use the M.2 slot?



2) Is M.2 faster/slower/equal compared to a regular SATA III slot?

3) If SATA III tops out at 600MB/s, what is the point of buying anything better than the 850 EVO drives? I see that the 960 Pro and Evo are much faster, but how can SATA III take advantage of that?
The M.2 slot is hands down faster than SATA III. The M.2 interfaces the SSD directly to the PCIe bus. Plus with the M.2 which is for the latest NVMe drives, you're eliminating the performance hit of AHCI. I'll have to dig up a bench mark I did with a NVMe drive mounted to a PCIe card. It's eye opening. I'll post it up in a bit.
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