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Best Value M.2 NVME SSD Boot Drive - Samsung 970 Evo 250 GB

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These are selling for $108 on Amazon right now.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BN5FJZQ/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

If your motherboard doesn't have the correct x4 M.2 slot onboard you can buy a PCIe adapter to put this into.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01798WOJ0/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
Also make sure your motherboard BIOS allows you to boot from one of these. Use High Sierra 10.13.4 or newer for support.

Your boot time should be under 10 seconds with one of these. Video editing will be a breeze. You'll never have to wait for large program to open up ever again. Writing data to the drive will be faster than you've ever experienced.

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Would it be possible make use of this NVMe M.2 ssd on HP 8300 with PCIe adapter. I am currently on Sierra and understand that you have to be on High Sierra for NVMe support. Is there much gain in performance as compared to SSD drives.

Thank you in advance and posting many great deals including the below which I have setup.

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/hp-elite-8300-w-i5-3470-for-114-99-at-newegg.237035/

For general everyday use it's difficult to notice much difference in speed/performance when using NVME vs. a Sata3 SSD. If you were to be working with 4K video files then it may be worth the upgrade to NVME. You would need to use the white x4 slot on your motherboard and use the newest version of Clover that has an option to select that allows booting from an NVME drive on older hardware. I have not tried this yet so you would be the first to try it on an 8300. It is called NvmExpressDxe-64.efi.
 
For general everyday use it's difficult to notice much difference in speed/performance when using NVME vs. a Sata3 SSD. If you were to be working with 4K video files then it may be worth the upgrade to NVME. You would need to use the white x4 slot on your motherboard and use the newest version of Clover that has an option to select that allows booting from an NVME drive on older hardware. I have not tried this yet so you would be the first to try it on an 8300. It is called NvmExpressDxe-64.efi.
Thanks for the info. In case I try it and if it works, I will update here. :)
 
I’ll chime in and say these are insanely nice. PCIE/NVME storage was a game changer to me. Even in 2014 when Apple started using them I noticed how much snappier that laptop was (rMBP mid-2014) since those models were 2x as fast as the fastest SSD’s (around 1000mb/s versus SATA SSDs being around 400-500mb/s).

with Samsung newest NVME SSD’s like the 970, i’m getting easily 3000mb/s on macOS. although one thing, I haven’t been able to get full performance on the drive like it is on Windows or Linux. They can hit 3500mb/s on those operating systems. I’ve confirmed the the 3000mb/s max speed as well as @pastrychef on his computer. Maybe later on we will be able to get full speeds. They still are beyond “fast”.
 
Would it be possible make use of this NVMe M.2 ssd on HP 8300 with PCIe adapter. I am currently on Sierra and understand that you have to be on High Sierra for NVMe support. Is there much gain in performance as compared to SSD drives.

Thank you in advance and posting many great deals including the below which I have setup.

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/hp-elite-8300-w-i5-3470-for-114-99-at-newegg.237035/

For my Pentium G3258 with H97 Mobo and a RX 480 it works about 3X faster then standard SSD. And it didn't affect my RX 480 performance using the extra PCI slot, I also have a PCI wifi adapter. When I put it in my Z170 with 32G/sec M.2 slot it runs 3000/2500 so although it runs at about half of optimum speed with PCIE adapter it still is faster then a SSD.

m.2 SSD 970 evo PCIE adapter speed test.png

Here's my Z97 with 4790K 1st generation m.2 @ 10GB/sec. As you can see 750/750 still way short of the PCIE adapter for the 970 NVME.

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The HP EX920 M.2 NVMe SSDs are also very good bargains. I've read some pretty positive things about them. Definitely worth a look when shopping for a new SSD.
 
And then there's the WD Black nvme, which has speeds that match and sometimes exceed the 970 Pro......lots of good choices out there....I have the 960 Pro, but it has one flaw, overheating, and then throttling, which can be overcome with a good heat sink. The 960s are selling a tad bit cheaper than the 970s.....something to consider.....
 
Micro Center has these for $95:

http://www.microcenter.com/product/...80-pcie-nvme-30-x4-internal-solid-state-drive

If you have 1 in your area.

These are selling for $108 on Amazon right now.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BN5FJZQ/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

If your motherboard doesn't have the correct x4 M.2 slot onboard you can buy a PCIe adapter to put this into.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01798WOJ0/?tag=tonymacx86com-20
Also make sure your motherboard BIOS allows you to boot from one of these. Use High Sierra 10.13.4 or newer for support.

Your boot time should be under 10 seconds with one of these. Video editing will be a breeze. You'll never have to wait for large program to open up ever again. Writing data to the drive will be faster than you've ever experienced.

816Fw0tG5DL._SL1500_.jpg
 
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