960 or 860 drive

[fightingfi]

SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 500GB NVMe PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive MZ-V6E500BW---------239.99


or


500GB 860 Evo M.2 SSD SAMSUNG-----------169.99

 

[Speedeu4ia]

for what?

 

[fightingfi]

for what?

for my pc to use windows 10 on

 

[BlueLineSwinger]

Except under very limited circumstances NVMe/PCIe SSDs provide no real-word benefit in desktop systems. Get the 860 Evo.

 

[E4g1e]

Except under very limited circumstances NVMe/PCIe SSDs provide no real-word benefit in desktop systems. Get the 860 Evo.

Careful there. Not all m.2 sockets support SATA m.2 SSDs at all; for example, SATA m.2 SSDs will not work at all if an m.2 socket only supports PCIe. (Conversely, a PCIe m.2 SSD will not even fit an m.2 socket that only supports SATA m.2, like on a few lower-end laptops.) And on some motherboards, the use of even one SATA m.2 SSD will disable all of the other m.2 sockets and/or some of the SATA ports.

Because of those compatibility issues, if one were to buy an 860 EVO for a desktop, he should stick with the 2.5" version.

 

[BlueLineSwinger]

Careful there. Not all m.2 sockets support SATA m.2 SSDs at all; for example, SATA m.2 SSDs will not work at all if an m.2 socket only supports PCIe. (Conversely, a PCIe m.2 SSD will not even fit an m.2 socket that only supports SATA m.2, like on a few lower-end laptops.) And on some motherboards, the use of even one SATA m.2 SSD will disable all of the other m.2 sockets and/or some of the SATA ports.

Because of those compatibility issues, if one were to buy an 860 EVO for a desktop, he should stick with the 2.5" version.

Fair enough, always consult the mainboard's specs before buying parts for it.

However, there are vanishingly few consumer-level mainboards that don't support SATA on their m.2 slots. It's unlikely that the OP will have a problem with the m.2 860 Evo. Side benefit, no cabling to deal with.