Looking for 500gb-1TB storage(fastest?)

[nirtodax]

I've got a GTX 1080 and a i76800K, 16GB ddr4 3200MHz ram. Yet fortnite and windows still take ages to load/boot up. I have windows on a ssd. However I'm looking for something a bit faster. I've heard about m.2 but I'm not really sure what all the variations are. My budget is around £200-400 for 500-1TB of storage. I would prefer faster and less than slower and more (within my size range). Please may someone link some products on Amazon for me to look at. Or explain what type is best. I'm looking for speed in terms of opening apps (games) and booting windows. Appreciate any help !

 

[mdd1963]

if you have a 6800K, are you on an X99 board with an M.2 NVME slot?

The 970 EVO was just released, and improves on the speeds of the blistering 960 EVO, and has longer warranties and improved write endurance. (If your games are installed on spinning drives, that alone may be the longest wait, you might get the most "GB per dollar spent" going with another 1 TB SSD for game installation, as the M.2 NVME drives ares more costly than the same size SATA counterparts...)

Tests in game level load/launch times comparing SSDs with NVME drives show very little difference with the faster drives, as apparently pure storage read speed is obviously not the sole bottleneck on these 30-60 second intervals....

But the NVME drives are pure bliss come boot-up and shutdown time, with only a few seconds needed for either, typically...(makes WIdnows almost feel like a Linux system!)