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As an industry leader in everything from phones to fridges, Samsung creates some truly remarkable products. So, when this master of memory modules approached us about reviewing the newest incarnation of their V-NAND SSDs, how could we say no?
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I think you mean TB? Anyway, I've got a Crucial 500 GB M.2 NVME PCI-E 3.0x4 for my boot drive and some other apps like MSI Afterburner. It's lightning fast. The Crucial is always less expensive then the Samsung. Mine was $80 USD.
I really love that it requires no cables and plugs right into the Mobo. You need to make sure your Mobo has a high speed M.2 slot if the correct length on it before purchase. If you've already got a standard NAND SATA SSD there is really no point in wasting money to "upgrade" unless you do a lot of storage reading and writing intensive work. Better to just wait until your SSD actually is at the end of its life and needs replacing. WINiNFO64 can tell you that data.
For us as gamers, unnecessary unless you're starting a new build from scratch like I just did, then you'd get one of these.
It's a hard drive, kind of like a Solid State but even faster. Your motherboard needs to have an m.2 slot on it to use one or you would need a PCI-E adapter. Not sure if using an adapter would make it run slower or not though...
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Waiting 10 ms on a hard drive might seem fast, but it's not fast if you need to load hundreds of small things at once. Load hundreds of small things at once from an SSD and it's still very fast. An SSD can often save seconds or even tens of seconds when booting your computer, loading a game, or even zoning within a game. Perhaps more importantly, it saves a fraction of a second here and there, making it seem like your computer does something when it ought to, rather than sometime later.
SSDs are also more durable than hard drives, as well as quieter and lower power. The only downside is that they're more expensive in terms of $/GB, but now that you can get a 500 GB SSD for well under $100, why not? The move from hard drives to SSDs is the single most important advance in desktop or laptop technology of the last decade.
The price tag is why hard drives aren't going away just yet; they still make fine backup devices, or storage for bulk data like if you have a bunch of videos. But you don't want to run real programs off of a hard drive if you don't have to, as that's going to be slow.
Do you need the particular SSD in the review as opposed to some other SSD? No. The difference between even a relatively slow SATA SSD and the top of the line M.2 over PCI-E 3.0 x4 (or perhaps Optane, which is a different technology yet, but for most purposes, basically an SSD) isn't that important. But the difference between that relatively slow SATA SSD and the fastest hard drive ever made is enormous. If you're running everything off of hard drives, then your computer is slow, no matter what processor, video card, or memory you have.