SSD SATA or PCIe

[Frog]

I just yanked a graphic card that wasn't doing me with my meager needs too much extra good.
So, now I'm looking at that PCIe slot wondering if maybe one of those funny looking ssd's that fits there will greatly outperform my regular old SATA ssd.
Any of you playing with these?

[Admiral]

I just yanked a graphic card that wasn't doing me with my meager needs too much extra good.
So, now I'm looking at that PCIe slot wondering if maybe one of those funny looking ssd's that fits there will greatly outperform my regular old SATA ssd.
Any of you playing with these?

I use some m.2 SSDs in mini computers (Intel NUCs, some of our fastest computers that we use for software development testing).  Very fast, much faster than the Sata connected SSDs in most computers in the building.

Definitely recommend if you want a performance bump loading things.  Not necessary for most applications though.

[Frog]

I just yanked a graphic card that wasn't doing me with my meager needs too much extra good.
So, now I'm looking at that PCIe slot wondering if maybe one of those funny looking ssd's that fits there will greatly outperform my regular old SATA ssd.
Any of you playing with these?

I use some m.2 SSDs in mini computers (Intel NUCs, some of our fastest computers that we use for software development testing).  Very fast, much faster than the Sata connected SSDs in most computers in the building.

Definitely recommend if you want a performance bump loading things.  Not necessary for most applications though.

Would I see an improvement in our usual graphics tasks?

[Admiral]

Most of that process will be to the ram and can be accelerated with a graphics card, not so much the hard drive / SSD.  If anything writes to the pagefile in Windows 10 - that will be faster and likely noticeable but it's hard to say for your exact purpose.

Basically, I would still go with this technology for your main disk because it's not much more expensive and will speed up other areas at the minimum though.  That said I have not used a PCI Express SSD format and that is rare than the factor I have used so I am not sure on exact pricing and if it would be hard to get that drive going.

There are $65-100 500GB M.2 format SSDs but PCI E format will likely differ.

[ebscreen]

m2 is just a form factor and not a performance increase over sata.
The fast ones are the pcie and nvme drives.

You'll see significant performance increase with the latter two.