RE: What's the Best Way To Move To A New HDD
September 20, 2018 at 6:27 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2018 at 7:08 pm by bennyboy.)
One more thing:
About NVMe: it's basically an onboard SSD. A mATX motherboard with an M.2 socket (the standard required for NVMe) and really good stats can be bought for about $100. An entire new comp can be put together for about $500, GFX card not included and assuming you buy fresh RAM and CPU for it (you may not have to).
I have a Samsung 960 EVO M.2 2280, which reads at 3,200M (legit 10x faster than almost anything else) and the 250GB version cost about $100. It installed Windows from my thumb drive in about 5 minutes (not exaggerating even), and from power-off to login takes about 10 seconds. Opening big programs? Photoshop? Office? Almost instant! I didn't realize how much of my life I was waiting for stuff to open until I didn't have to wait anymore.
Note also that this drive is rated for something like 1.5 million hours (if I'm reading Korean correctly)-- not like early SSDs which were much more susceptible to wearing out.
About NVMe: it's basically an onboard SSD. A mATX motherboard with an M.2 socket (the standard required for NVMe) and really good stats can be bought for about $100. An entire new comp can be put together for about $500, GFX card not included and assuming you buy fresh RAM and CPU for it (you may not have to).
I have a Samsung 960 EVO M.2 2280, which reads at 3,200M (legit 10x faster than almost anything else) and the 250GB version cost about $100. It installed Windows from my thumb drive in about 5 minutes (not exaggerating even), and from power-off to login takes about 10 seconds. Opening big programs? Photoshop? Office? Almost instant! I didn't realize how much of my life I was waiting for stuff to open until I didn't have to wait anymore.
Note also that this drive is rated for something like 1.5 million hours (if I'm reading Korean correctly)-- not like early SSDs which were much more susceptible to wearing out.
