Are M.2 SSD worth it?

rehab said:
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Look at the Toshiba XG3, its the OEM version of the OCZ RD400. I got my 512gb drive off Ebay for 180.00.
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nice find. after thinking about it I dont think I'd notice the improvment over a sata ssd for what I do. and I could save about $50 too.
 
CSI_PC said:
Just curious which virus/firewall product that using?
The video is not clear (or my eyes lol) but is that video from the time you pressed power on or after the initial POST/BIOS-UEFI?
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No Additional Antivirus, firewall beyond what's already built in in the OS, in fact I can not remember when was the last time I needed an AV and the firewall is two-phases physical with a Barracuda 800 and a netgear FVX 538 which protect all the machines at home.

CSI_PC said:
The video is not clear (or my eyes lol) but is that video from the time you pressed power on or after the initial POST/BIOS-UEFI?
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yeah well, it was fast made didn't take in consideration lot of things as acquacow said xD and well.. the video just start at the same time I pressed the power button of the machine in the 4 secs mark can be seen the Bios POST screen (ASUS TUF Logo) keyboard lights up before the POST screen.

this was tested with Win7, Win8.1 and Win10, Win7 have the slowest boot time and still I think it was less than 22secs which is still half the time of PCPer Results. honestly IDK what kind of or what amount of start with windows applications they have or if it was purposefully chosen a worse case scenario bloating it terribly but to me it was really wrong numbers to me.
 
Araxie said:
No Additional Antivirus, firewall beyond what's already built in in the OS, in fact I can not remember when was the last time I needed an AV and the firewall is two-phases physical with a Barracuda 800 and a netgear FVX 538 which protect all the machines at home.



yeah well, it was fast made didn't take in consideration lot of things as acquacow said xD and well.. the video just start at the same time I pressed the power button of the machine in the 4 secs mark can be seen the Bios POST screen (ASUS TUF Logo) keyboard lights up before the POST screen.

this was tested with Win7, Win8.1 and Win10, Win7 have the slowest boot time and still I think it was less than 22secs which is still half the time of PCPer Results. honestly IDK what kind of or what amount of start with windows applications they have or if it was purposefully chosen a worse case scenario bloating it terribly but to me it was really wrong numbers to me.
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So the fast boot was disabled in both UEFI and also Windows?
I can post many other examples of HDD with various windows taking 30s to 60s from cold boot and fast boot along with various hibernation/sleep options fully disabled *shrug*, plenty out there.
Possibly 3rd party AV/firewall products take a noteable chunk but there is more than this going on.

Cheers
 
The issue isn't so much with doing a nice, single-threaded, sequential read for boot, but more of when you actually get to the desktop and want to immediately get to work vs being stuck waiting for all of your systray apps/etc to startup.

The faster I can get loaded up, get a browser loading with 12 saved tabs in a folder, and get lightroom launched, all at the same time, the better.
 
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M.2 Drives look cheap they are not enclosed in a housing which is why I like SSDs better and they are cheaper.
If you run a small case though and don't want any cables at all it's a good bet. I don't own one myself...
 
Comixbooks said:
M.2 Drives look cheap they are not enclosed in a housing which is why I like SSDs better and they are cheaper.
If you run a small case though and don't want any cables at all it's a good bet. I don't own one myself...
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By that logic, I shouldn't use any DRAM not in an enclosure, or any of my pci-e add-in cards either...
 
I bought a 67mm x 18mm x 4mm copper heatsink for mine; have read through multiple tests that reflect even the addition of the smalest additional cooling measure had a dramatic effect on temperatures. Will be sure to update once I get my new rig built and no-heatsink vs with-heatsink temp comparisons.
 
Apparently the enclosure on my msi carbon is more of a heat trap than anything else. I removed it and installed the copper heatsinks as well.
 
Same deal with the ASUS 270i; card run cooler on the back slot of the board than the "ASUS double decker heatsink" slot on the front.
 
I put a 500GB Samsung Evo 960 M.2 in my XPS 15 laptop. Fast, fast, fast and smooth performance!!
 
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