M2 SSD.

[trev123]

I just got a 4TB M2 SSD. I put TSC on it, moving it from an ordinary SSD. It took about 30 minutes to transfer about 750 GB of TSC files. The loading time of TSC is no faster but the scenarios load quicker. The ones that I have tried load within a couple of seconds. Picture below of a M2 SSD. They fit into your M2 socket on your mother board.

[AmericanSteam]

I just got a 4TB M2 SSD. I put TSC on it, moving it from an ordinary SSD. It took about 30 minutes to transfer about 750 GB of TSC files. The loading time of TSC is no faster but the scenarios load quicker. The ones that I have tried load within a couple of seconds. Picture below of a M2 SSD. They fit into your M2 socket on your mother board.

I love these and have been using them for quite a while. I have a total of 10.5 TB, 2 M.2 NVMes on the MB, 4 M.2s NVMe on a 4 drive expansion card and 4 connected via SATA configuration.
One thing about M.2 drives, each cell has a certain number of writes/rewrites then the sector fails. The solution for this is to over provision the drive. This reserves cells for use when they are needed as replacements. Not all Drives allow over provisioning, Samsung does but some others do not. M.2 drives should also be set up for trimming. The TRIM command tells the SSD which cells can be erased during idle time, which also allows the drive to organize the remaining data-filled cells and the empty cells to write to to avoid unnecessary erasing and rewriting similar to defraging a HDD.
Some manufactures drive management software can be used for this. Installing a manufactures drive management software is a good thing because it monitors drive health and will give warning on impending drive problems.

How to enable TRIM on Windows

Enter cmd in the search box on the system tray.
Right-click "Command Prompt" and choose "Run as administrator."
Type: fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0 and hit Enter.


To manually run TRIM after it has been enabled on Windows you can:

Type optimize in the search box on the system tray

Select Defragment and Optimize Drives
Select the advanced view then select a drive to run TRIM then select optimize.
Click Change settings to adjust or schedule TRIM

I don't mean to step on your toes. This is some information that I picked up through the years.

[trev123]

Yes, mine is a Samsung 990 Pro with heatsink. I have downloaded some software for it called Samsung Magician which lets you maintain the health of your SSDs.

[AmericanSteam]

Yes, mine is a Samsung 990 Pro with heatsink. I have downloaded some software for it called Samsung Magician which lets you maintain the health of your SSDs.

It is a great utility. You can set your over provisioning from there.