Copied from previous deal
Controller: WD
Memory: Kioxia BiCS5 112L TLC
DRAM Cache: None, HMB Supported
Sequential Read: 4150 MB/s
Sequential Write: 4150 MB/s
Random Read: 600,000 IOPS
Random Write: 750,000 IOPS
Endurance (TBW): 600 TB
Warranty: 5 Years
Thanks, got one.
Are these suitable for PS5?
No, too slow
Thank you
Is it really an issue?
AFAIK as long as it’s gen 4 it is compatible with PS5. Are there any games that suffer because the drive is below Sony’s recommended read/write speeds?
It's not an issue at all, even assuming worst case scenario it means something that would load in real time would instead have a fraction of a second pause or the textures would visibly load.
Like most hardware, devs aren't utilising it fully. That's their cap in terms of speeds to load in real time. I highly doubt any are getting near it anyway, considering most games are still cross platform and need to work for a multitude of hardware.
I'm using it in my PS5, no problem at all. Fyi, I'm playing FF7 Rebirth on this SSD. What game is too slow?
It'll warn you that it's "not fast enough" but it'll just work.
Let me raise a slightly irrelevant issue that's not worth creating a thread of its own for. Its only directly relevant because I've got a system the WD SN580 doesn't work in. I've tried.
I've found a motherboard/CPU combo that I can't get to work with any gen4 NVMe SSDs. And I can't get any sense out of support. They say they've tested a similar system and no fault was found.
I had some spare bits, so I put together a system out of them. Its an Asrock A320TM-ITX, which I got because it uses SO-DIMMs that I had heaps of, with a Ryzen 200GE processor. If I put any gen3 NVMe SSD in it it boots and runs without problems. If I put a gen4 SSD in it it won't boot. I mostly use various WD SSDs, but also have a bunch of other brands. And it does it irrespective of the brand. It also does it if I use an adapter in the M.2 wifi card socket, so its not a fault in the main M.2 socket.
Contacted Asrock. They said they tested with that m/b and CPU and BIOS version and found no problem. When pointed out they'd tested with an SSD that had never been officially released, so it must have been an engineering sample, they said they'd tested with others without problems, but didn't say what others. They referred me to their QVL, said fit one of those, but its all gen3.
I've never seen anything like it. The M.2 standard was designed with backward and forward compatibility. I've never seen a system that won't work with previous or next generation SSDs.
Anyone got any suggestions. Its annoying because gen3 SSDs are increasingly hard to get hold of. Everything is gen4 now, and its only going to get worse.
The samsung 970 evo plus is still widely available.
Quite well regarded it seems, with some people preferring it over the 990 evo.
I've been using it since launch without issues on a gen4 mobo. My only regret is not buying 2tb, because it's such a pain removing the entire faceplate on my mobo, just to replace the nvme ssd
Yes, I've got a 970 Evo, and it works. Its gen3.
The problem isn't finding a (gen3) SSD that works, now. Its that the problem is occurring at all. Its like a car that only runs on Shell petrol, and won't start on anything else. That's not supposed to happen. And when you refer it to the car company they say "of course it runs on other brand fuels, don't be silly", and don't offer any suggestions for anything that could be looked at to fix it.
Like USB, SSD protocols were standardised so this wouldn't happen. They negotiate the highest speed that both the socket and the device plugged in can run at, and select it.
Did you ask them what version of BIOS they were 'testing' with? Were they using some hacked hybrid version of bios by chance?
I see, I thought you were looking for suggestions on 3.0 nvme ssd's.
I don't have any clue on that.
The speed and TBW at this price point is quite decent by comparison.