If you have a machine still booting from a hard drive, you owe it to yourself to stop the pain and upgrade to solid-state. With Lexar’s NQ100 going up to 960GB, you might even enjoy a nice capacity increase as well. You might see PCIe-based drives advertising speeds of GB’s per second and wonder why you should bother with SATA but the truth is, those numbers are misleading for the overwhelming majority of day-to-day use cases. Gaming, Office work, browsing the web, and almost anything else that typical users do daily will be about the same experience on the NQ100 as it would be a very expensive premium NVMe drive. Solid State Drives are so fast that you just can’t queue up multiple commands in the milliseconds it takes to read or write a file.
I will tell you that nothing makes as profound of a difference in daily experience as moving from a mechanical drive to a solid state. I promise you, if you haven’t made the jump yet, you are missing out on something and will never willingly go back to mechanical for boot drives. Those noisy clunkers are great for storing mountains of pictures and video, or those games you don’t play often, but not for daily use. If you still boot from one, do yourself a favor and grab your own NQ100 drive. This 240GB model can be had for around $32 with the 480GB model in the wild for about $52 and the massive 960GB model coming in at around $88 on the street.
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