Worth updating SATA SSD to M2 SSD?

Gros21 on 06/06/2023 - 20:31

Well I just recently got a little HP elitedesk micro PC.

It's going to do nothing but download files via sonarr/raddarr then shoot them off to my Synology nas.

I'm going to do a fresh install of windows so was wondering if there any real benefit of putting in a M2 SSD I'll then throw in a chucked few tb data HDD.

At moment it runs a external HDD as a temp storage of download files so this would become external.

The ssd would only need to be 500gb max but spose I could go 2tb and ditch the spinning drive all together.

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Comments

  • Aureus on 06/06/2023 - 20:35
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    Not worth it. Doubt you will notice any difference for your use case.

  • Hybroid on 06/06/2023 - 20:54

    Nope. Not unless you need more than 500 MB/s sustained read anyway which is unlikely.

  • Wiadro on 06/06/2023 - 21:08

    nope.

  • FoxJump on 06/06/2023 - 22:25

    why cant your nas run the apps you need internally?
    why does your computer need ext hdds to keep things temporarily, cant they be in your nas too?

  • Shermanpk on 06/06/2023 - 22:39

    Generally, SSD is SSD.

    Unless you're running databases or something. Perhaps a small optane drive can be useful as a swap drive, if you're short on ram and can't get more.

  • Gros21 on 06/06/2023 - 22:49

    It's 16gb ram.

    Its on 24/7 downloads files to external drive then moves them to nas. Boot times are not a concern, only real benefit I'd see is removing external drive.

    Easyier then setting up docker on my nas.

    This used to be done on a old lappy but that's going to shed.

  • BobD on 07/06/2023 - 07:29

    Amazon has a variety of M2 NVMe drives. Some at high prices and some priced OK. Silicon Power on Amazon has a spread of devices at reasonable prices. Does your PC support M2 NVMe or just M2 SSD. There is a big difference.

  • GordonD on 07/06/2023 - 09:41

    There are two answers to your question. Which one is the right one depends on the type of M.2 SSD the PC uses. Whether its SATA or NVMe.

    If its SATA.

    A SATA M.2 SSD is no faster than a SATA 2.5" SSD. They have the same components in them, and therefore the same reliability. Don't bother, there's no benefit.

    If its NVMe.

    The fact you've gone to the trouble you have to ask us means you want to do it. And with M.2 SSD prices down at the moment because of a glut, and soon to go back up, now is the time to do it. If you don't do it now you'll regret it. You'll keep thinking about how you should have done it when M.2 SSDs were cheap, and you missed your chance by not doing it before they got expensive again.

    Of course it'll produce very little actual real benefit. Unless you count choose a warm feeling for having done it when it was cheap to do over regretting later that you didn't.

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