Hello, Getting some SSD storage for a 10+ year old pc. Crucial has deals on the SATA 2.5” and on the m.2 NVMe drives. For an older pc without native NVMe is it worth getting a PCIe adapter? I think the SATA would serve fine as it’s mostly media storage but it’s not much more for the NVMe and I like the idea of 10x speed even if not “needed”.
Also, slightly worried the NVMe approach may have some sort of compatibility issue. (Board has PCIe 2.0 slots). Any NVMe to PCIe adapter recommendations?

  • Carnildo@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You say you’ve got PCIe 2.0 slots. If you’ve also got SATA 3.0 ports, the SATA drive is actually going to be faster than an NVMe drive in a cheap one-lane adapter (600 MB/s versus 500 MB/s). The NVMe drive only wins if you get a four-lane adapter and stick it in an x4 or larger PCIe slot, and even then, it’s only going to be about three times faster at best.

    No idea about compatibility of adapters. When I was facing the same decision while upgrading an old computer, I went with the SATA drive.