Read more.The ideal companion for 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen?
Read more.The ideal companion for 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen?
So on Scan 500GB 520 is selling cheaper than the 510. ok
Not true, imo. "Enthusiasts", typically speaking, are the people who still use bang for buck but they use it in crazy places like, M.2 drives, top end graphics cards cases, monitors, etc. They'll spend real money because they feel a real feeling of..accomplishment ? I guess. I suck at words. I should get a thesaurus.The key selling point, of course, is performance, and peak sequential read and write speeds of up to 5,000MB/s and 4,400MB/s are not to be scoffed at. A near-45 per cent uptick in read performance is reason enough for most enthusiasts to want to upgrade,
ANYWHO. My entire point is, no enthusiast is changing their m.2 to one of these. The types of people who do that aren't enthusiasts, they're the show offs, the clowns, the ones who must have the best etc. because yeah it might be faster at read and write in single file performance, but considering that with a current 1tb m.2 (which is literally half the price of this) games open before I click the buttons, and the ones with 4K textures are annoying purely because I have to wait so long for my mates to load in...if you're paying twice as much for what would equate to a nominal amount of performance increase, you're not en enthusiast..you're just a clown.
Also I bet you drive an Audi
EDIT: before it's brought up, every reference to media production was purposely left out, as this wouldn't be used for that, as there are better options, done a thousand different better ways with a thousand different budgets. But no bean counter office is ever gonna let you have these for your production server
To be fair... although I can see some point in your logic I strongly disagree. Someone with a new Ryzen 3 system with a decent X570 board would be mad not to buy one of these if they are in for a decent upgrade. I have a corsair g3 nvme drive and it's awesome makes an absolutely huge difference to how the system responds in normal useage
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
any chance of testing a Gen 3 drive in the Gen 4 slot too see if it goes any faster? see whether the Gen 3's are forward compatible?Do also be aware that Gen 4 drives are backward compatible; with the same drive attached to our regular Intel test platform via PCIe Gen 3 x4, we managed sequential read and write speeds of 3,481MB/s and 3,358MB/s, respectively. Handy to know if you're planning to use the drive on an existing rig before upgrading to PCIe Gen 4 at a later date.
to see whether its worth paying so much for the Gen 4. they all seem to cap around these speeds so maybe there more to be had from them in the faster Gen 4 slot?
stevie lee (05-12-2019)
I just don't trust seagate as a brand for consumers... I don't know -_-
These are backwards compatible yes ?
Otherwise i don't know what i should do if i was so lucky to win one here.
I know my TR4 board cant max it out, still a nice C: i would like to have.
Did I miss something or was this the only PCIE G4 x 4 drive they tested? Why would they compare it to only Gen3 drives???
There's not many PCIE Gen 4 options out there right now (and some of the current Gen 4 M.2 SSDs - e.g. Sabrent - use relatively slow FLASH memory despite the fast interface) - but still a useful article, if only to get a handle on the difference in performance between PCIE generations.
still waiting for samsung Gen 4 m.2 SSD's...
Honestly, I would have liked to have seen a little bit of info over how hot they get etc and/or whether their performance is affected by being too hot like some of the older cards are/were.
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