I have an Asus p8p67 pro.

My SSD is fine. Ends up with realistically around 400 read / 400 write. But I see some significantly faster (and cheap) SSD's for PCIE 3.0 now.

Ah I guess not. Don't have m.2 support, or a connector. Guess I'll just have to wait til the whole computer is a brick.

more than 4x the read, and approx 3x the write, would've been nice

Won't really notice much of a difference anyways. Unless you're constantly moving around massive files.

Is the term I’m looking for “burst rate” speeds?

I assumed the sustained reads and writes are indicative of quick tasks (ie. moving 30MB). But I don’t know if the quicker ssd’s scale in performance down to small/short instances.

I’m looking at improvements to:
- faster boot time
- faster launching of programs
- faster loading of files within programs (ie. a photoshop file, Java code, etc).

I suppose I would need USB-C to truly realize the benefits in transferring files.

I did want to stop using my 1TB storage disc. Idk why, Windows waits to respond until it spins up when I’m only using my SSD. I’ll try to open a picture stored on the ssd, or something else, and the hard drive lags the system by having to spin up for no reason before windows loads it. Figured my SSD could act as my backup storage.

Yes, from what you listed, tasks wise, you want an SSD. But on your motherboard you're limited to SATA 6Gb/s, speeds, w/e SSD you pick.

SSD is great, But reg ssd vs m.2 isnt that much improvement in real world use.

You can always just turn off the power saving feature that turns off the HDD

depends on the workload really