I am planning on buying a now storage device but am stuck between SSD, M.2, or PCI X Storage.

[Ferrariassassin]

As of now i own a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD for my OS and such with me also owning a WD Black 1TB 7200 HDD. I am wanting to buy a new Storage device faster than my current one and is under $200. I do not care how much space it has just as long as it is enough for my OS like around 120GB atleast. I am really liking the Samsung 850 PRO SSD or maybe the Samsung M.2? What is the fastest storage i can get? I heard M.2 is the fastest.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

The $500 Samsung XP 941 M.2 is about 9% faster than the 850 EVO in overall read score.... The EVO is 1% faster than the Pro. You will not be able to observe a difference between what you have now doing normal booting an PC activities.

Samsung rated the 850 Pro at 550 MB/s and the 840 Evo at 540 MB/s ...a 1.8% difference...that like 0.015 seconds in boot time.

The best thing you could do for storage in your system would be to replace the WD Black (6.34 MB/s) with a Seagate SSHD (9.76 MB/s ) .... that's a 54% increase.

 

[ArtPog]

As of now i own a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD for my OS and such with me also owning a WD Black 1TB 7200 HDD. I am wanting to buy a new Storage device faster than my current one and is under $200. I do not care how much space it has just as long as it is enough for my OS like around 120GB atleast. I am really liking the Samsung 850 PRO SSD or maybe the Samsung M.2? What is the fastest storage i can get? I heard M.2 is the fastest.

 

[ArtPog]

I've no experience with the SATA-m devices but I'm not thrilled with their specifications/price ratios. By & large those devices have gotten very little play in the consumer SSD market.

Over the past 3 years I've worked with about a dozen different SSDs and I can tell you from my experience the Samsung 850 Pro has been "king of the mountain". Haven't found any SSD any faster. Of course bear in mind virtually all current SSDs blow away HDDs and, truth to tell, I haven't found any enormous speed differences among recently marketed SSDs. The last I checked the 256 GB Samsung 850 Pro was going for about $173.99.I recently ordered the Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB SSD (Newegg $134.99) after hearing good reports about that device but haven't as yet worked with it yet.