Hello,
I have a couple questions in regards to storage options before I upgrade. Just want to clarify some information. Right now, I am using a Samsung 500GB SSD for my hard drive. I want to upgrade to 1tb or larger. I have been looking at NVMe options.
My motherboard says it supports 2 x M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4.
From MSI site and manual.
4 x SATA 6Gb/s ports1
2 x M.2 slots (Key M)
M2_1 supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4, 2242/ 2260 /2280 storage devices
M2_2 supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s, 2280 storage devices
Its my understanding that if I get an PCIe 3.0 NVMe storage card, that the transfer speeds would be up to 4GB/s. I am looking at some on Amazon/Newegg and they state "Read/Write up to 3500/3000MB/s". I guess the performance will vary. In any case, this would be a a fairly large performance increase from the SATA SSD which only can do transfer speeds of up to 600MB/s. It also seems the bandwidth is much higher as well. 32GB/s...
If I go ahead and grab a card do I need to change anything in the BIOS for it to work? The manual for the board doesn't say anything. It would seem the performance difference between the two is huge. 600MB/s transfer speeds compared to 4GB/s. Am I missing something? I feel like I should of went with NVMe when I first built my setup.
Also, the prices seem very good and on par with the SATA SSD options.
I am posting the first one I came across but its only $140 1TB NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 - Amazon - $139
Setup
MSI Z370M MORTAR Motherboard
Intel - Core i7-9700K 9th Generation 8-Core - 8-Thread 3.6 GHz (4.9 GHz Turbo) Socket LGA 1151
Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3200 (PC4-25600) C16
EVGA Supernova 750 G3, 80 Plus Gold 750W, Fully Modular,
Phanteks PH-EC416PTG_BK Eclipse P400 Steel ATX Mid Tower Case
MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB GDRR5X DirectX 12 352-bit
Samsung 860 EVO 500GB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD
CORSAIR - Hydro Series H115i PRO 280mm Liquid Cooling System with RGB Lighting - Black/Gray
Thanks for your input.
I have a couple questions in regards to storage options before I upgrade. Just want to clarify some information. Right now, I am using a Samsung 500GB SSD for my hard drive. I want to upgrade to 1tb or larger. I have been looking at NVMe options.
My motherboard says it supports 2 x M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4.
From MSI site and manual.
4 x SATA 6Gb/s ports1
2 x M.2 slots (Key M)
M2_1 supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4, 2242/ 2260 /2280 storage devices
M2_2 supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s, 2280 storage devices
Its my understanding that if I get an PCIe 3.0 NVMe storage card, that the transfer speeds would be up to 4GB/s. I am looking at some on Amazon/Newegg and they state "Read/Write up to 3500/3000MB/s". I guess the performance will vary. In any case, this would be a a fairly large performance increase from the SATA SSD which only can do transfer speeds of up to 600MB/s. It also seems the bandwidth is much higher as well. 32GB/s...
If I go ahead and grab a card do I need to change anything in the BIOS for it to work? The manual for the board doesn't say anything. It would seem the performance difference between the two is huge. 600MB/s transfer speeds compared to 4GB/s. Am I missing something? I feel like I should of went with NVMe when I first built my setup.
Also, the prices seem very good and on par with the SATA SSD options.
I am posting the first one I came across but its only $140 1TB NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 - Amazon - $139
Setup
MSI Z370M MORTAR Motherboard
Intel - Core i7-9700K 9th Generation 8-Core - 8-Thread 3.6 GHz (4.9 GHz Turbo) Socket LGA 1151
Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3200 (PC4-25600) C16
EVGA Supernova 750 G3, 80 Plus Gold 750W, Fully Modular,
Phanteks PH-EC416PTG_BK Eclipse P400 Steel ATX Mid Tower Case
MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB GDRR5X DirectX 12 352-bit
Samsung 860 EVO 500GB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD
CORSAIR - Hydro Series H115i PRO 280mm Liquid Cooling System with RGB Lighting - Black/Gray
Thanks for your input.