pcie ssd is speedier than sata ssd in many areas, except for common use, in which case you don't really notice the differences. yeah it depends on your usage.

imo it's better to spend on 4x of ssd capacity than 4x speed for most users. however, if you're an enthusiast, you know what you want

er about boot time, i use samsung xp941 and i disable fastboot on w10. to me it's the same as sata ssd. sHawTY can give you better pictures because he has a sammy 950 pro.

wo nice guess that's the difference between ahci and nvme.

the raid is slow because it takes additional time to load driver and initialize raid.

is this a single ssd setup?

This post has been edited by horns: Apr 24 2016, 12:18 PM

Got it. That's what i thought too. Everything must be blazingly fast

that noctua 3krpm pwm fan is very loud at full speed. (1x is already loud enough; i have 2x; it's no joke) you need a fan controller to slow them down. imo 2krpm pwm ppc is better.

chanhin, you can check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMvBQoU82_8 (note that in the video it's only one fan; so to use 3krpm ppc fans you need a fan controller)

imo 2krpm ppc is better in terms of noise level, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZkW3tmuyWM (again, you use fan controller to adjust noise level accordingly)

as for your expectation to upgrade to a much faster mainstream cpu with the same mobo in 3 years, well, lie chocobo7779 pointed out, intel focus on power efficiency (cpu speed is kind of staying the same for several generations already) also, i think the cpu socket for future cpu will change most likely, hence incompatible to skylake cpu.

imo you should just go for whatever highest that you feel comfortable. if you go for xeon, check if the cpu has built-in igpu, if not you need a descrete gpu.

yeah that noise hehe noctua fans has 6-year warranty btw.

for now yeah 950 pro is the best that we can get.

later this year we have another oem sku from samsung, sm961. that one has 3.2kMB/s seq. read and 1.8kMB/s seq. write (max capacity is 1tb) by 2017 i think we will have the retail equivalent.