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      01-08-2017, 05:08 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by zx10guy View Post
The M.2 slot is hands down faster than SATA III. The M.2 interfaces the SSD directly to the PCIe bus. Plus with the M.2 which is for the latest NVMe drives, you're eliminating the performance hit of AHCI. I'll have to dig up a bench mark I did with a NVMe drive mounted to a PCIe card. It's eye opening. I'll post it up in a bit.
Awesome, thanks! So stick with the M.2 slot and out regulat HDDs in the 3.5" bays? I have a 2.5" SSD lying around (256MB) that I'd like to use somewhere also...
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