2TB NVME Drives

Troezar · 24 May 2022 at 13:33

Which one would you go for right now for a game drive on a PCIE 4.0 capable motherboard?

Troezar · 24 May 2022 at 13:50

StevieP said:
I'd probably just go for the cheapest - I can't imagine you will see much of a performance difference outside of benchmarking!

Personally mine is a Sabrent

I did wonder about that. I don't suppose we're getting data streamed off them any time soon like the consoles?

Troezar · 24 May 2022 at 16:36

EsaT said:
There really won't be much of difference between different NVMes, so don't see sense in paying big luxury extras.

FireCuda 520 would be 5GB/s capable Phison E16 drive.
Seagate FireCuda 520 2TB SSD PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (ZP2000GM3A002) (SKU: HD-3BX-SE) = £229.99
(Corsair MP600 Core is overpriced for QLC)

Looks decent, I see you can get the SN850 for £15 more which is tempting.

Edit:
Listening to Frank Azor it sounds like it's too soon to jump in. I'll wait to see which drives and controllers will meet the Smart Access Storage requirements. Seems just being PCIE 4 or 5 will not be enough to guarantee it will be fast enough to work.

Troezar · 25 May 2022 at 06:24

Tetras said:
Isn't it just based on windows directstorage api? If so, I thought all you needed was a pci-e 3.0 drive, is there more to it?

Definitely be a minimum spec but he didn't go into details. Sounded like some drives would be good whereas other similar drives with different controllers or internal configurations wouldn't. Maybe some throttle after a time with high throughput?