Originally Posted by
SUMMONER
With the exception of the Intel 750 and the Samsung 850 all drives in the charts are M.2 drives.
Yes, the new drives are faster, but not to the point that most people will care.
I watched a nice video on Linus Tech Tips demonstrating the diminishing returns of adding cooling fans to your PC. Once you have the basics (an exhaust and "may be" an intake fan), the cost to benefit ratio started dropping rapidly down to almost nothing, unless you did something extreme with your computer.
So, should you buy a SSD? Yes, yes, yes, yes....! Should you buy a PCIe SSD? Sure, it's awesome tech. However please understand that for 3x the money (in the case of the Intel 750) you will not get 3x the speed, or 2x, unless you work with very large files.
I used to short stroke a 1TB Samsung F1 hard drive to 200GB, to make it more responsive. Doing so forced the hard drive to only read/write the outer most tracks of the disk, which brought down the seek time to < 9ms and maintained the highest possible read speeds (the further in you go on the disk, the slower the read speeds).
All modern consumer SSDs are basically a short stroked HDD on steroids. They maintain (hopefully) the same high read/write speeds throughout the usable disk space and give you seek times of < 1ms (typical hard drive is < 14ms).
Which is why I said that it is not important which SSD you buy, so long as you buy a branded one, with a good warranty and a reputation for being reliable.