Last deal from Photech Computers: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/681424
It was $199 but 3% surcharge for Paypal + Delievery
Spec
- Capacity: 2TB
- Form Factor : M.2 (2280)
- Read : 2100 MB/s
- Write : 1900 MB/s
- Driver Interface: PCIe Gen3
Last deal from Photech Computers: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/681424
It was $199 but 3% surcharge for Paypal + Delievery
Spec
Someone posted they had a pretty terrible experience with these on a deal I posted for the 980 pro. 70mb/sec during sustained write, pretty abysmal for an m.2 ssd.
Is this actually tlc as suggested in the other deal. Apparently pny downgraded the tbw on their better drives so likely switched to qlc
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pny-xlr8-cs-3030-ssd-endur…
Anyone who bought the other can share?
Is the bpc Corsair mf 600 a better choice?
As a Steam Game drive? thoughts? my boot SSD is full up so figured this might suit for game storage?
Shouldn't be issue for steam game drive
would this one work on PS5?
Looks like the sustained write speed drops to 70 mb/s on this once the cache is exhausted.
It is a DRAM-less SSD, if you need sustained write, go for the DRAM one
I received a CS1030 from the previous ozbargain deal for this drive. I can confirm the behaviour seen by others. I managed to copy about 500GB at ~450MB/s, until write speed cratered to under 85MB/s — dipping as low as 30MB/s. It does recover at times, up to 1.7GB/s, but mostly remains at 60-80MB/s. I suspect this would point to QLC not TLC, but havent peeled the label off yet.
So beware as a boot drive, likely perfectly fine as a game drive. I'm just filling the drive now to do some further tests of performance when mostly filled with uncompressible data.
Pulled the label off. CS1030 2TB is using QLC flash.
Not sure about performance compared to other well known brands? nice for a storage drivve on my second m.2 slot if these are designed for that?,. though I'm sure the important question is to use this as a boot drive?, I'm sure people want to know like me?
Edit: like important questions as below 👍😁