New ASUS Rog laptop OEM SSD Micron NVMe Gen4 MODEL: MTFDKBA1T0QGN?

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My recent purchase of a ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614PM-RV007W AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX
came with a Micron NVMe Gen4 MODEL: MTFDKBA1T0QGN SSD and I am unable to find
many reviews on this ssd. The ones I have found appear to be from 2023.

Does anyone have one of these or know if they are good or not?

I have WD Black SN50X from Overclockers sitting on my shelf and
I don't know if I should swap out the OEM for this?

Would appreciate anyones comments.
 
From a google, it appears to be a modern PCI-E 4.0 high layer QLC drive.

If you have a SN850X then I'd expect that to be better overall, but not worth the bother of replacing and I think less likely to be suited to running the WD in a laptop anyhow.
 
event2020 said:
Do you mean from a performance point of view or heat generation, or something else?
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Modern QLC drives are usually lower power, more efficient and cooler running than older high-end PCI-E 4.0 drives.

They're usually single sided too, due to the high density dies, whereas older TLC drives can be double sided and that is an issue in some laptops.
 
Micron own Crucial. Crucial make good drives.

We're on pcie gen5 now but you really won't notice any difference to gen4 or even probably any noticeable difference to gen3 for that matter.

Gen4 is still very much in use.
 
event2020 said:
Forgive my lack of knowledge (I'm working on it), so the WD Black M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4 SN850X SSD is considered old?
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I don't mean that the SN850X is dated, it is a very good desktop drive, I'm just saying that the latest QLC drives have advantages that arguably make them better suited for use in laptops than older high-end PCI-E 4.0 drives like the SN850X.

To be clear though, I'm only saying that from the perspective of you going to the bother of swapping them over.
 
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adidan said:
Micron own Crucial. Crucial make good drives.
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Yes, I was able to discover this via google which surprised me as I had not heard of Micron until now.
I use a lot of Crucial external SSD's for backups and moving files between machines, never had a
single issue with them, always rock solid.

Even though its a gaming laptop I will be using it for Video Editing, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop,
Lightroom and MS Word and Excel.

It just threw me a curve ball when I opened the laptop up to upgrade the ram and found the Micron SSD.
And, its Crucial Ram that I will be adding.....
 
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Tetras said:
I don't mean that the SN850X is dated, it is a very good desktop drive, I'm just saying that the latest QLC drives have advantages that arguably make them better suited for use in laptops than older high-end PCI-E 4.0 drives like the SN850X.

To be clear though, I'm only saying that from the perspective of you going to the bother of swapping them over.
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Ah yes, I understand and that makes sense.
I am currently imaging the Micron with Macruim (not installed the OS yet) but I could always
run the Micron fror a while and use the WD as the 2nd drive.

I find it better to have an OS drive and keep files and projects on a different drive.

At least no-one has said, "Put the Micron down and move away" so that makes me feel more confident.
 
event2020 said:
I am currently imaging the Micron with Macruim (not installed the OS yet) but I could always
run the Micron fror a while and use the WD as the 2nd drive.
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Where does the bulk of the wear for your work go?

Given the usage you describe, I wouldn't want the Micron used as a working/scratch drive, especially if the tech specs I've seen are correct that it is QLC.

Keeping the Micron drive for the OS/apps only and the WD for your work/projects, would make sense to me.
 
Tetras said:
Where does the bulk of the wear for your work go?

Given the usage you describe, I wouldn't want the Micron used as a working/scratch drive, especially if the tech specs I've seen are correct that it is QLC.

Keeping the Micron drive for the OS/apps only and the WD for your work/projects, would make sense to me.
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Yes, based on the discussion in this thread, that is what I was thinking.
Use the Micron as the OS Drive and the WD as the 2nd for saving rendered video and so on too.

I'll get all of my software installed and the OS setup the way I like it then I will image it again
so if anything happens to the Micron I can just apply the image to its replacement.
 
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