Need some help before buying an SSD.

[fargunift]

Hi,

I've been thinking about changing my HDD for a SSD, but there are a few things that I would like to know before purchasing it.

1.One of the few things a know about a SSD is that starting games and windows would be faster, but would it be faster between loading screen? For exemple, I finish a game of Quake Champion and wait a bit before getting back to the menu. Is this kind of loading screen (in between games) going to be faster or is it just for the game launch?

2.My mother board is a P6X58-E WS and unfortunately doesn't have a M.2 or 2.5 port. So I'm wondering if the adapters I see on the internet would do the trick. Like this one:
https://www.amazon.ca/Rivo-PCI-Adapter-Card-Supports/dp/B01N09W21D/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1537658410&sr=8-4&keywords=m.2+adapter.

3. My third and last question is, are there any SSD that don't require any adapters to work? I searched for a SSD I can plug in the standard hard drive port, but didn't get any interesting result. They all seem to need a M2 port. That would be better since I would't need to buy an adapter.

Thank you for all your help! I Appreciate it!

English isn't my strong suit so please bear with me ^^

 

[Darkbreeze]

1. Anything that needs to load, be read from or written to disk, will be magnitudes faster with an SSD than it is with a HDD. Even just a standard SATA SSD is much faster than any hard drive. And if you don't have at least 16GB of RAM installed, and are gaming, it's likely there are many circumstances where something gets swapped out to the page file instead of to memory, as it would if you HAD more memory, so in that case, having the page file on an SSD can be the difference between major hiccups and smooth gameplay. And of course, map, level and texture loading will ALL be much faster.

2. You are confusing an SSD with an M.2 storage device (Loosely called an M.2 SSD) If your motherboard supports SATA 2.0 or 3.0, then you can use a standard SATA SSD and connect it exactly the same as you would any other drive. Now, if you wanted to use an M.2 drive, then you would need a PCI adapter AND you had best make sure that your bios will even support such a drive as a boot device because a lot of older (More than 3 generations old) motherboards don't. Many of them only support them as secondary drives for storage purposes, not as boot devices.

3. Not sure where you're getting that from. 90% of SATA solid state drives connect and install exactly the same as if it was a 2.5" hard drive. Depending on your case you might need 2.5" to 3.5" drive adapters to mount them in one of the drive bays, but a lot of cases support both types and in all honestly, for an SSD, a drive isn't even mandatory. You could locate and mount the drive using velcro or two sided tape, and a lot of people have done so when they had no room left for additional drives.

Any SSD listed here should work with your system. No PCI adapter or confusing hardware would be necessary, at all.

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#i=25&t=0&sort=price&S=120000,15360000&m=12,74,23,28,110,32,33,34,38

 

[USAFRet]

I've heard sata is slower than M.2, is that true ?

No, because of the fallacy of what is labeled as "m.2"

M.2 is simply the format...how it connects.
An m.2 drive and port can be either SATA based or NVMe based.

A m.2 SATA drive runs at exactly the same speed as a similar SATA III 2.5" drive.
Same drive, same performance, same price, different connection types:
WD Blue m.2: https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-500GB-SSD-WDS500G2B0B/dp/B073SBX6TY
WD Blue 2.5" SATA III: https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-500GB-SSD-WDS500G2B0A/dp/B073SBZ8YH

WD Black, NVMe: https://www.amazon.com/Black-250GB-High-Performance-NVMe-WDS250G2X0C/dp/B07C9H8MHD
Much much faster, twice the price per GB.

 

[fargunift]

Alright, that settles it for me, thank you very much!