Dream machine on my wishlist

[silentbogo]

I'd really like a samsung drive, to turn rapid mode on, if not optane, but I don't have the budget to buy all this yet, and was thinking of upgrading my current machine with something I can later install into this one. My current mobo doesn't support m.2 though.

It has no M.2 slot, but it does support NVME. You can buy a PCI-e adapter for your machine when you need it, or better: sell that H110 board and get a decent B150 board w/ M.2 slot and 4 RAM slots.
Used SKL/KBL boards are cheap nowadays. Not too long ago I sold a B250M-HDV board for $70 or so, and I still have a B150M Pro4 which no one seems to be interested in even at $50 price tag and with better specs than that B250.

 

[Gorstak]

Basically the reason why I'm considering a samsung ssd is that 4k scores seem to be limited to 30MB/s on most other drives, and with optane or samsung rapid, I could get that a lot higher. Basically, I'd reduce the bottleneck a lot with it. It doesn't matter if other speeds will do 1000 MB/s or 5000 MB/s, I'm just interested in increasing my lowest score. And if I can get something usable on current pc and maybe on this mini, if I buy it in the future, that'd be great.

 

[silentbogo]

Basically the reason why I'm considering a samsung ssd is that 4k scores seem to be limited to 30MB/s on most other drives, and with optane or samsung rapid, I could get that a lot higher. Basically, I'd reduce the bottleneck a lot with it. It doesn't matter if other speeds will do 1000 MB/s or 5000 MB/s, I'm just interested in increasing my lowest score. And if I can get something usable on current pc and maybe on this mini, if I buy it in the future, that'd be great.

4K random for most users is irrelevant. If you do gaming and multimedia - you won't notice the difference. I'm still on an old Samsung XP941, which is relatively slow PCIE2.0 drive, and in any real-world scenario did I notice that it's any slower than my new ADATA SX8200, which on paper and in benchmarks is in the ballpark of 960 Pro in sequential tasks, and just trailing behind 970 Evo in 4K random reads/writes. I still get sub-15 second boot time, my games still load fast, my browser is not lagging, and my data transfers are mostly limited by what's on the other end. It's only noticeable on some off-brand chinese SSDs, were random reads/writes can be truly awful.

 

[Gorstak]

Decided against spending any money whatsover after latest discovery, but I am gratefull for y'all input.