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• blamo2000 Member RarePosts: 1,130

  June 2019

  One question - SSD's acronym was spelled out in the article (which I think has been around long enough for people to know), but NVMe wasn't. It would be nice if stupid boomer idiots like me didn't have to do a search to find out what seems like a big selling point of a product you are reviewing is. I think it may be implied that NVMe is a PCIe slot only hard drive? But not enough for me to make a solid inference. More information on this would be useful, like how many modern motherboards have multiple PCIe slots. I have one so would have to give up my graphics card to use this.
  
  Also, is encryption on a hard drive good for regular gamers? What sort of person doing what would this help? Me, only advanced users, only business computers, or only people doing weird internet things that put them at greater risk? How beneficial is this than me just encrypting a file folder or using an external drive for sensitive information?
  
  I have a small 500g SSD drive, and a ridiculously large regular hard drive that I'd like to replace with a large SSD. But since I last looked into it (when SSDs were kind of new but becoming reasonably priced) so much has changed and all the articles seem to be written for people who has kept up with the changes.
  

  
• Shinami Member UncommonPosts: 825

  June 2019

  Good for the Specialist/Professional
  Bad for Gamer
  Ugly for the General Public
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
• gervaise1 Member EpicPosts: 6,919

  June 2019

  
  

  blamo2000 said:

  
  

  One question - SSD's acronym was spelled out in the article (which I think has been around long enough for people to know), but NVMe wasn't. It would be nice if stupid boomer idiots like me didn't have to do a search to find out what seems like a big selling point of a product you are reviewing is. I think it may be implied that NVMe is a PCIe slot only hard drive? .
  
  

  
  

  
  
  SSD - as you say - is a well known acronym and refers to the tech used to store the data. We became familiar with the 3.5 inch SSD drive.
  
  NVMe - Non-Volatile Memory Express - was a new data transfer specification. It allowed much higher rates of data transfer than e.g. SATA which is what most 3.5 inch SSDs use. Early NVMe SSDs went into PCIe slots and were expensive. There was (is) a 3.5 inch variant as well.
  
  M.2 is a form factor - something that describes the size and shape of, in this case, a type of storage devices. There are a few different sizes but basically M.2 is tiny! Ideal for laptops and tablets.
  
  Things really began to evolve when the M.2 form factor was combined with the NVMe data transfer specification. Over several months motherboard manufacturers incorporated one (or more) M.2 NVMe slots into their designs. And the stage was set!
  
  Manufacturers meanwhile built new production facilities and incorporated new techniques - including "multi-layering" into their products. More layers is one of the advances that has enabled higher capacities.
  
  Updated - faster - controllers - to make full use of the NVMe protocol - have also been developed.
  
  As more and more manufacturers have released their offerings the price has come down very quickly whilst capacities have gone up. 1Tb is probably now the "best value" unit. Above that things are still expensive but things have been developing pretty quickly.

  
• gervaise1 Member EpicPosts: 6,919

  June 2019

  
  

  Shinami said:

  
  

  Good for the Specialist/Professional
  
  Bad for Gamer
  
  Ugly for the General Public
  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  SO faster data transfers are back for gamers? Have you considered using stone tablets and chisels?
  
  As for ugly an M.2 NVME is, imo, a thing of beauty. Its so neat

  
• waffleflopper Member UncommonPosts: 31

  June 2019

  
  

  blamo2000 said:

  
  

  One question - SSD's acronym was spelled out in the article (which I think has been around long enough for people to know), but NVMe wasn't. It would be nice if stupid boomer idiots like me didn't have to do a search to find out what seems like a big selling point of a product you are reviewing is. I think it may be implied that NVMe is a PCIe slot only hard drive? But not enough for me to make a solid inference. More information on this would be useful, like how many modern motherboards have multiple PCIe slots. I have one so would have to give up my graphics card to use this.
  
  
  
  Also, is encryption on a hard drive good for regular gamers? What sort of person doing what would this help? Me, only advanced users, only business computers, or only people doing weird internet things that put them at greater risk? How beneficial is this than me just encrypting a file folder or using an external drive for sensitive information?
  
  
  
  I have a small 500g SSD drive, and a ridiculously large regular hard drive that I'd like to replace with a large SSD. But since I last looked into it (when SSDs were kind of new but becoming reasonably priced) so much has changed and all the articles seem to be written for people who has kept up with the changes.
  
  

  
  

  
  
  I saw that gervaise1 already answered the question, but I really appreciate this feedback. Thank you