Excellent price on a M.2 NVME SSD.
$83.20 500GB
$148.00 1TB
2000MB/s Read
1700MB/S Write
Not the performance king compared to Samsung 970 etc, but still an excellent drive at a very good price.
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I can’t answer that specific question, but would point out mechanical HDDs are probably the most failure prone component in any PC that has one so either way you should look to buy something that has a warranty you are comfortable with as well as maintaining a backup for your data.
Even if the drive was to get hot, the question is whether it’s going to fail quicker than a heavily used mechanical drive? I’m guessing not and that the drive even if warm is likely to be designed to operate at a set heat, probably higher than some might expect.
Im debating whether to get a 1Tb SATA or 1TB NVMe, given I already have a 256Gb SATA but don't think its slow. Don't think mechanical drives are in the question here given its m.2 form factor.
Yeah sure. Personally I’d just go either and not worry about the temps. I’d trust the drive is built to tolerate I/O and put a warranty claim in if it can’t.
Any storage is a bit of a lottery in the end of the day.
What is your usage. Since if you are not moving big files like 4k videos or rendering them sata ssd will do the job perfectly.
@MDSUXKS: Probably not needing to move things. Save a tad and get a SATA ssd seems to be the play of the day.
They do throttle down after sustained performance makes them too hot.
You can buy heatsinks for a few bucks or higher end motherboards come with integrated heat sinks. Or useless plastic covers that makes the problem worse if you're unfortunate enough to have an MSI motherboard.
That's not a reason to use slower SATA all the time though.
This SSD isn't ideal for media creation because it lacks cache meaning it will slow down after sustained writes. You want the most expensive NVMe SSD like Samsung 970 plus/Pro or Adata SX8200 Pro.
Yeah the heat sinks usually are rubbish and sometimes worse. I just like it for less cabling….
The difference of the price between them is almost nothing so it is not worth to grab SATA.
I have an USB-C case with a Silicon Power 1TB NVMe connected with my XBox, It does get hot but since I had a laptop cooling system hanging around — $15/$30 — I can spend an entire day playing, turn it off and my Xbox is cold asf so it's the NVMe case
The new console generation will probably use NVMe, new laptops are already coming with NVMe, motherboards, etc. I would only by SATA if it was like a crazy out of this word deal.
To do a transfer of data I’d need to buy a USB to M.2 NVMe and clone the drives. But then I would not be able to put the old SATA into this cable. If I were to then I’d need to buy two enclosures. Unless there is an enclosure that can accept both.
This is one of the reasons why I’m leaning to SATA, as I’d be able to use it as a small, fast flash storage.
How long is the warranty for ?
Postage kills it…NON ebay plus
Silicon Power A80 1TB for $180 at Amazon (plus 3.5% after GST cashback) is a better buy than this.
Uses TLC instead of the slower QLC that's in this.
I hear ya about TLC vs QLC, but ~$175 is still more :|
I use one of this Silicon Power on my Xbox and h0ly m0ly.
It is a little overkill since USB-C cannot use its full NVMe speed, but it still a great game experience with almost no loading time.
Sabrent Rocket on Amazon, best price/performance
How hot do these get my Samsung 960 is 70 degrees idle, and the rest of my pc is like 40 idle.
I've had it fail twice already and it's annoying as hell.
Is there a connector that goes with this that can be used to clone the existing drive anyone knows? Thanks.
Just search for usb to m.2 nvme on ebay. If youre only cloning it doesnt matter what speed but itll be limited by USB.
Thank you. Any closing software that is good for this purpose that you may know of?
I used macrium reflect not sure if good but that’s at least one option.
I read somewhere that because NVMe is faster than SATA, it also gets hotter and thus is not as good for big read/write sessions such as media creation. Any truth to this?