I have manged to get a new work laptop and the OK to upgrade to an SSD. Laptop is a MSI GL62 6QD Details here: eBuyer According to MSI it will take an M.2 SSD and I know nothing about them. A quick google tells me I want a Samsung 960 Pro but these dont look like they are available yet and I am going to struggle to get it through the buyer! 250GB will be plenty so anything of similar speed to a 960 for less money or same sort of proce and available now? (The boss is on holiday so I'm more likely to get it through while he is off!)
FWIW I was using a Asus RAIDR which was terribly fast for the time and I thought it died so I replaced it with a standard SSD. It turned out to be fine (wasn't inserted properly, it's PCIE) but I noticed so little difference between it and a Sandisk I didn't bother switching back. I now use the RAIDR for my fave games.
Still not sure, 500MB vs 800MB in your example or 500MB vs 3000MB that I am looking at, would I notice the difference? Manage to persuade the buyer to go for the 960 Evo showing on scan as available in a week or so! Thanks for the help though
You will absolutely notice the difference. I went from a Samsung 850 EVO to an M.2 drive, and wow... the difference is unreal. The massive difference comes from both the speed and NVMe over AHCI. Have a Google and read up about NVMe vs AHCI, and you'll soon see why the difference is so big. On a separate note, my Ultrabook came with a dog-slow Samsung M.2 drive that I replaced with an 850 EVO and the difference is night and day. It's so much faster and so much more responsive now. Unfortunately, it is only a B+M key (not full M.2) but it is still mega quick for the machine that it is. Passive machines and a high-speed NVMe drive would be a bad idea anyway... they run pretty hot.
