Looks like another Prime Day US deal.
And as most local stock of Gen 5 2tb drives go for $385+, this is a pretty big saving.
Anyway, here is the relative performance chart compared to other drives, courtesy of TechPowerup,
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/corsair-mp700-2-tb/18.htm…
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Ta for the clarification.
I wouldn't doubt if it's because Corsair's Australian storefront is giving the US prime day special pricing, and they just ship it from the AU storefront.
any motherboard with a PCIe would support this or?
Check your specific motherboards specification page.
It also matters which generation of CPU you are running. I believe only 12/13/14th gen intel, or 7000/9000 gen AMD, support Gen 5 speeds.
Also, almost all drives (bar 10 year old sata m.2's) are always backwards compatible with gen 3/4 m.2 slots, if you have an older board. You just won't get Gen 5 speeds due to the slots speed limitation.
Depends on what you mean by support. PCI-E is always backwards compatible, so it'll work, but on a board that doesn't have a PCI-E 5.0 slot, the theoretical maximum speed of 10000MB/s will be bottlenecked down to around 7000MB/s. And on an even older 3.0 board, halve that again. Could be justifiable for someone who plans to upgrade soon I suppose.
As for what currently works with it at full speed, on a current-gen AM5 AMD system, support is optional and up to the manufacturer to decide whether to implement it on a given motherboard, so consult the spec sheet or manual. With an A620 board, no chance. At the next rung up, many B650 boards have the Gen5 slot, but budget boards sometimes omit it, as do MSI mid-range boards (dunno why MSI specifically are cheaping out on this, they just are).
On Intel, the answer is effectively no. Their current boards only have enough Gen5 lanes for the video card. A few high-end Intel boards do technically offer a Gen5 M.2 slot, but using it will cause the main video card slot to drop down from x16 to x8. Not the board manufacturers' fault or a case of them cheaping out, it's a limitation on Intel's side.
Great summary, thank you. Are we at the point where a 4090 will max out Gen5 x8 bandwidth? Theoretical 5090? I remember when Gen3 came out it took a while until there was genuinely a need for x16 before running into much bottlenecking even for high end GPUs
Gen5 x8 is literally the same speed as Gen4 x16, which is the maximum capability of the 4090, so be definition it can't be a bottleneck because the card is operating at full potential.
The thing about running a 4090 in a Gen5 x8 slot though it'll then drop down to Gen4 x8, because you don't magically get more lanes just because the installed video card can't take full advantage of the existing ones. This comes with a very small performance penalty. Several publications have done testing in this regard but here's one example.
Not much in the grand scheme of things, but given that upgrading to a Gen5 SSD also isn't much of an upgrade, I suspect it's not a trade that would be worthwhile for any Intel owners out there.
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Oos
Had a look just before and there was 4 left. Had to go and pick up my daughter from work, came back to order and OOS.
Think of it this way, you daughter saved you $285.20.
If she can do that a few hundred more times I'll break even.
Remember you can always buy and then cancel later on at no cost to you. You just have to make sure it's before it ships or slightly just beforehand as it may be too late and you'll still get charged.
You still can return it after the fact as well
Pretty sure my board only support gen 4 otherwise I'd have got one of these
would have jumped on this if it was 4TB
Put one in my basket
Went outside for a walk to think about purchase and decide I do not need it.
Come back and see OOS and get sad
Remember I have one in basket
Purchased
I use https://ssd-tester.com/top_ssd.php to quickly see a wide range of benchmark results fast/has a decent ranking list
Don't feel too bad. This is a good deal but original pcie 5 drives like this are very hot and power hungry. New gen drives will be here real soon.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/phison-e31t-…
Better in every way, except price. Prices of these older models will fall and keep falling in face of the extra competition.
Well, now he may feel bad haha. Read again, he purchased.
Ugh. You're right! I stopped reading half way through… my bad!
PS: this is also local stock (Shipped and Sold By Amazon AU).