Intel 750 vs Samsung SM951 or keep my samsung evo 850

[RealBboy360]

I'm getting a new Asus Z170-AR with DDR4 and i5-6600k soon. (I'll probably have to do a clean windows 10 install)
I have a evo 850 ssd. Performance is good, but should I get one of the above? I've read a lot about each but still a lot of questions.

My main use is Visual Studio compiling and building. Would like to have a few projects open. It creates and moves a lot of files

1. For Samsung SM951 do I have to add a heat sync? It plugs into my MB directly.

2. I've read the Intel and SM951 are somewhat similar in specs, but is the Intel better at moving small files around. 256GB is all I need, the samsung is then 1/2 the price of Intel because it's 400GB.

3. Would it really be that much faster than my sata III evo? Wondering if it would cut my loading and build times at least in 1/2.

 

[MarkW]

An SSD is so fast, that putting something twice as fast into your system is not going to make much of a difference. Now if it was 4 times faster, then you would probably notice the change. But I personally do not think its worth spending hundreds of dollars to upgrade a already fast SSD to M.2.

If you were coming from a hard drive to an M.2 SSD, sure, grab the M.2 SSD and laugh all the way to the bank.

I figure I will keep my Samsung 840 EVO 1TB for another 2-3 years, and then see what is out there by then. I am hoping that by then, we have XPoint storage devices available... 1000x the speed of an SSD sounds real good to me!! Now we just need PCIe 12.0 to handle that speed...

 

[RealBboy360]

How much faster do you think it would be though in general for big compiles in visual studio? double the speed would make it worth it to me.

 

[MarkW]

I agree. That is a case where there is a ton of reads and writes going on.

I would not even want to guess what the reduction in compile time would be. It would just be a wild guess at this point.

 

[RealBboy360]

I agree. That is a case where there is a ton of reads and writes going on.

I would not even want to guess what the reduction in compile time would be. It would just be a wild guess at this point.

Yes, I think I'm going to go for it. With this new motherboard it looks like it could make things a lot faster. Reviews I've seen on the online stores selling it seem to be pretty good unless you have an old motherboard. Some of my Visual Studio projects are complicated and take a while to load, but Hololens might come out in a year for developers, that I bet will need a very powerful machine for development.

I think I should have enough airflow since I'm using a liquid cooler on the CPU.