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Originally Posted by Ferra
btw...about the U.2/M.2 SSD.
Anyone using them (i.e. Samsung 950 Pro) and got any opinion of them on real world use?
On paper and benchmark they are significantly faster, (500MB/s vs 2000MB/s+)
Just wondering does it actually feel much faster and snappier in real world usage? (Like when you are upgrading from a HDD to SSD)
There are only 2 Z170i mobo I can find - Asus and MSI. Asus Z170i uses U.2, where MSI use M.2. (tho only 65mm fit properly)
Some people say U.2 is more the future for desktop SSD, but U.2 ssd is almost non existent beside intel's super expensive 750 at the moment.
I guess I will stay with cheaper SATA SSD for now, but I want the mobo to be future proof when the new SSD become more common.
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I've been using PCIe SSD for many years now, even before M.2 was released. I get like 1600 read and 1500 write.
Some M.2 nowadays are faster than a regular SATA3 SSD by trading write for more read speeds. IMO, write is equally important.
Of course, M.2 also uses PCIe lanes/bandwidth.
FYI, after 2000 read and 2000 write, in a consumer environment, you don't feel more of the speed difference as when compared to the HDD to SSD speed jump change. I've used an Intel 5000 read and 3000 write PCIe SSD at work, and it felt like I didn't gain a huge speed bump from a 2000/2000. Although, as soon as I use it in a database environment with many thousands transactions per second, the speed boost is fantastic.