Reviews - HyperX Predator PCIe SSDs launched

[HEXUS]

This PCIe M.2 SSD solution offers up to 1400MB/s read and 1000MB/s write.

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[MrJim]

Nice performance, but it's a shame it's not NVMe. Bit pricey too...

[shaithis]

Nice, even the price isn't bad considering performance but drives that occupy a PCI-E slot? Yuck.

[MrJim]

Nice, even the price isn't bad considering performance but drives that occupy a PCI-E slot? Yuck.

Unless you happen to have an M.2 slot on your motherboard?

[shaithis]

Unless you happen to have an M.2 slot on your motherboard?

Yeah but most boards with m.2 have 1 slot....and like this drive here, max size is too small in conjunction with a "1 drive" policy.

[directhex]

Another "can't do 1TB" "can't do NVMe" M.2 SSD.

[Tunnah]

If you're going to post porn please tag it NSFW

[Tunnah]

Another "can't do 1TB" "can't do NVMe" M.2 SSD.

NVMe isn't needed for the home user, it's more for the HPC crowd, it's more designed for parallelism (try saying that ten times fast) the typical home user would never notice if they had NVMe or not

[MrJim]

NVMe isn't needed for the home user, it's more for the HPC crowd, it's more designed for parallelism (try saying that ten times fast) the typical home user would never notice if they had NVMe or not

True, the earliest NVMe SSDs like the Intel P3700 have been aimed (and priced) at corporate users, the NVMe is set to come to consumer users eventually. It's true that client users probably won't need the massive queue-depths that NVMe facilitates all that often, but the lower CPU utilisation will definitely be of benefit to lots of people. The fact that NVMe is compatible with M.2, SATA Express & Windows 8.1 would all point to a consumer-focus. It's just a matter of time...

[Tunnah]

You point to some great benefits to NVMe but I have to reiterate again that it simply has no benefits to home users. The CPU utilization is only measurable once you scale it out into hundreds of units (at least), otherwise you're talking at fractions of cycles saved. Yes it supports more connectors out of the gate though, but I feel this is literally the only reason to have it implemented for home users,one which is countered by producers supplying drivers etc.

I'm not being an arse, I'm just trying to be level-headed in the calls for NVMe introduction because it feels like one of those technologies where everyone is hyped over it but nobody realizes the cost/benefit analyses for it.

There has been a massive uptake in people complaining about the lack of NVMe in drives, going so far as people creating petitions to have manufacturers start implementing it, purely because they heard it's better. But manufacturers can instead focus on producing drives that are faster and more durable, rather than devoting software engineers into re-writing firmware.

NVMe will mature naturally and it'll come to the desktop within the next 3 years, as it trickles down from the enterprise market. But that'll take time because solid memory has yet to break into the mainstream enterprise usage - it's widely used, but 90% the time as a caching system. When solid memory replaces spinning rust, THEN NVMe will become relevant