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Todays computer tech tip: NVMe solid state drives
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Todays computer tech tip: NVMe solid state drives


Jan 10, 2020, 1:10 PM

I replaced the smaller 256GB drive in my Apple Macbook with a 1 TB NVMe SSD drive. Holy crap--its like a new computer. It more than doubled (2.5x) the read speeds and doubled the write speeds--and that was from an existing SSD.

If your computer needs a bigger hard drive, put one of these in. The prices have gotten very reasonable. I can't imagine the performance difference you'd have if you had an old spinning disk.

/csb

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Had one for over a year now. PC boots in 12 seconds


Jan 10, 2020, 1:22 PM

Between that and the 32GB of RAM, most mundane stuff is basically instant.

Curious though in a Macbook, do they have an M.2 slot for the NVMe drive? That's something that has to be on the motherboard and only newish motherboards have them. Or is it using a SATA 6GB port? If it's an SATA port, you're not getting near the full speed of that thing. I get just over 3GB/sec read and 2.8ish GB/sec write speeds, and they're even faster now.

NVMe is the future of hard drives, no doubt. 1TB drive is literally the size of a stick of chewing gum.

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Ok nerds***


Jan 10, 2020, 1:23 PM



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I held off commenting on the increase in PCIe lanes


Jan 10, 2020, 1:26 PM

and GPU's going away from Crossfire and SLI to free up more PCIe bandwidth for M.2 drives. There's a new PCIe spec that's come out (or coming out) that's 30% faster too.

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On the MBP, they do have a slot for it.


Jan 10, 2020, 1:28 PM [ in reply to Had one for over a year now. PC boots in 12 seconds ]

The original drive was a 6GB port, but there are adapters, or you can buy the drive from macsales.com and they custom build the drive to use the 6GB port. My understanding is that they did a firmware upgrade with the High Sierra OS installation that allowed them to upgrade the port to the m.2 slot specs, even though its really a 6GB slot.

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How much were they a year ago?


Jan 10, 2020, 1:32 PM

The Samsung 970 1 TB drives are about $170 now; the macsales.com version I bought was $249.

If I still bought hardware for our VM hosts at work, I'd spec out a box full of these things for a VSAN. I'm not sure about its longevity, but it'd be dammm fast. I could probably clear out a rack full of Netapp SANs.

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Was the 256GB also SSD?***


Jan 10, 2020, 1:30 PM



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Yep


Jan 10, 2020, 1:32 PM

It was the original drive in the Macbook pro.

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