SSD Thread: (its good, ignore the anime)

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Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

You can, but you need to have backups of any encrypted data.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2016 22:33

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 12:48

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Officially official

http://www.overclock3d.net/news/storage/samsung_has_announced_their_960_pro_and_960_evo_nvme_m_2_ssds/1

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 15:18

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

The SSD Thread - Buy a 960 evo

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 16:01

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

metallicaeg posted:

Ordering a 512GB 950 tonight

Between this silly fast SSD, 4x4GB of RAM, a 4790k, and a GTX970 I'm thinking this build will be done for a while

The thread consensus is still either format the drive to capacity and leave space open, or format to smaller than capacity and go hog wild, right?

Dude the 960's should be out within weeks.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2016 21:37

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Concurred posted:

How soon are we talking? They were just announced late September and I'm finalizing my build next week. I was gonna go with an Intel 750 or 600.

"mid october" is the only thing official.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2016 02:32

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

s.i.r.e. posted:

Man a 2TB would be nice but jesus. I'm glad we're at the point though, prices are only gonna fall from here... right?

These are msrp, id expect amazon/newegg to be a good bit cheaper.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2016 20:14

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

ItBurns posted:

How much faster is the 960 Evo compared to the 850/840? Is the 960 that much faster, even on paper, that it's as big of a deal as its being made out to be? I looked at some reviews but I wasn't 100% on which metrics were comparable.

Yes

# ¿ Oct 14, 2016 18:30

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Knifegrab posted:

Are the 850 EVO M.2's worth it? They seem like they're in a really great place right now price wise.

Unless you need the physical chassis space I would just get the regular version. They will perform the same.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2016 21:18

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

EdEddnEddy posted:

Looking at a ASUS X99 Deluxe II board, I see it has an Onboard M.2 4X slot, a addon card for another M.2 4X, and 2 NVME U.2 ports.

What the hell are the U.2 ports for? Are they some sort of next step from SATA since it seems to connect to standard looking 2.5" SDD's with a funky wide connector?

Also does anyone know if you can RAID those 2 M.2's (or U.2's) for SnG?

They were like sata express, a connector nobody used.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2016 23:18

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

In windows i typically install the latest intel chipset drivers and intel rapid storage.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2016 16:47

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

The X400 is so good enough its really hard for me to recommend the 850 evo anymore for people.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2016 04:04

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

960 pros up on amazon. 512gb showing oct 30 and 1tb showing nov 6th.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2016 16:34

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Ditch the 120gb and just use the 500gb.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2016 16:37

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Wonder when the 960 evos are going to ship. Got my 1tb ordered from samsung for ~$390 during the glitch yesterday.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2016 18:58

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

EdEddnEddy posted:

Where was this glitch posted? Thanks Buddy. :P

Most deal sites. Basically you can get a 10% off coupon (which you still can i think just by browsing the samsung store) and then you could also go to the employment price enrollment site, put it in a random samsung email and you got employee pricing (which stacked with the 10% off) But it got patched after a few hours.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2016 19:38

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

The Iron Rose posted:

No. It's an NVME drive. Dell's website doesn't specify but every review of the laptop does. You'll want a 960 evo,which is a fair bit more expensive I'm afraid.

850 evo is not an nvme drive.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2016 03:35

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:

Nothing major, except: ~~it being heresy~~ the cost / ease of removal being worse then a cabled sata drive.

You'd have to remove the m2 sata drive if you ever wanted to add a significantly faster nvme drive instead, unless you have multiple ports.

Sata ports (the conventional ones) aren't going to go away for a long while. So a cabled sata drive might be easier to reuse in the future, if you ever wanted to put it into a different system.

It's no big deal but I only see drawbacks. I'd fit an nvme drive, or a plain cabled sata drive personally.

M.2 SATA adapters are cheap. You could just move it to a SATA port in the future if you needed.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 14:38

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Lots of board put them right under a GPU though

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 18:18

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

HenryEx posted:

I bought the first SSD of my life today and the dude at the counter sent me off with "Welcome to the NVMe age!". I fit it into the M.2 slot and installed the drivers from Samsung and the Magician, and it tells me it's on a "PCIe Gen 3 x4" slot. Is that the right thing?

I'm planning to transfer my boot partition over to it later, but can i encrypt the whole thing before i do that? I heard there's issues with encryption and SSDs or something.

Yes, thats what you want it to say.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2017 22:29

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Im only doing blues and mx300's now for customers (for sata drives). They work fine, are affordable, and reliable. Both are from good companies as well.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2017 18:47

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

Bundling a tiny little ssd with high end boards just seems silly. like those people are gonna be using quantum bigfoots with the 7700k

# ¿ Apr 26, 2017 16:44

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 12:48

Don Lapre: Mar 28, 2001; If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.

The Evo for $140 is a great price.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 23:28

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