Check if your motherboard supports M.2 and the upgrade will improve performance.
Check if your motherboard supports M.2 and the upgrade will improve performance.
uncertain about the exact generation of the B250 M.2 slot...or its relevance. Adding a M.2 would help boost overall drive performance. Running games on your fastest drive (M.2) while keeping the OS and apps on the SATA SSD could improve speed if the drive was previously limiting.
Be mindful of the options available; there are also m.2 SATA SSDs, though they don’t offer speed. An NVMe drive is recommended. The benefit is most noticeable with big files.
The M.2 drive doesn’t significantly improve load times compared to a SATA SSD, which you’ll likely still see as a noticeable difference.
The M.2 NVMe offers impressive potential, but real performance depends on the situation. While it can be five times quicker, this speed mainly applies during large file transfers where sequential speeds matter. For quick game or OS loading, you're more concerned with random write/read rates—typically only a bit faster than standard SATA3 SSDs, around 10MB/s to 30MB/s.