Best time to go for Gen5 NVME M.2?

BornEvil

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And just wondering what's everyone's predictions for when the £/gb for Gen5 drives would be comparable to current Gen4 drives.

ATM, Gen5 is about double £/gb as Gen4
 
I got a 2tb Crucial T700 6 months ago for £185, which at the time was only a bit more than PCIE4 drives. Don't know what prices are like now, but Black Friday/Cyber Monday is in 2 weeks
 
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I got a 2tb Crucial T700 6 months ago for £185, which at the time was only a bit more than PCIE4 drives. Don't know what prices are like now, but Black Friday/Cyber Monday is in 2 weeks
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ATM, the prices for pcie5 is about double pcie4, that is without any sales. I will wait for BF/CM as I can live with a gen3 drive I have spare
 
Dunno but it certainly boots up into windows faster than my Western Digital pcie4 and copying files is insanely fast.

I wasnt intending on buying x5 only did so because I needed more storage and the price difference at the time was minimal.

Just looked, the one I bought is £238 now so gone up £53 since May.
 
Gen 4 is the sweetspot for the average consumer right now, gen 5 needs to come down by around 40% before it becomes relevant.

I recently bought 2 gen 4 drives for my new build, if I'd have gone for gen 5 I'd have only got half the capacity for the price which to me would have been far more noticeable than the speed difference.

Gen 6 is probably a couple of years away by which time gen 5 will have dropped in price and start to make sense.
 
Varys said:
Dunno but it certainly boots up into windows faster than my Western Digital pcie4 and copying files is insanely fast.

I wasnt intending on buying x5 only did so because I needed more storage and the price difference at the time was minimal.

Just looked, the one I bought is £238 now so gone up £53 since May.
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I’ll use £185 as a benchmark for a T700, if something equivalent does come up around that price point, I might pull the trigger.

£185 for a t700 is not bad considering t500 (gen4) is about £140.
 
BornEvil said:
I’ll use £185 as a benchmark for a T700, if something equivalent does come up around that price point, I might pull the trigger.

£185 for a t700 is not bad considering t500 (gen4) is about £140.
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Actually just looked at my order history and I paid £179, not £185, in July not May. Sorry for the error
 
I think it will be in 2025, WD/Sandisk decided to delayed affordable Gen 5 SSDs launch to 2025. It seemed Samsung did the same with high end 9100 PRO and all brands SSDs with Silicon Motion SM2508 controllers too.
 
A WD SN850X 2tb is £150 and more than anyone here will need for the next while.

You’re literally wasting money using PCI-e 5.0 storage since you’ll never max it out - you’ll be CPU and RAM bottlenecked waaay before you hit the drive limits…but it’s your money.

PCI-e 5.0 is a marketing gimmick for 99.9% of all users.
 
Its worth it if you do A LOT of file transferring between drives. If its just for gaming or general day to day then you’re not going to use the potential. But if you don’t plan on upgrading then I guess its future proofed better
 
I got lucky and bagged a Samsung 990 Pro for £80 after cash back over Christmas. That will do for now.

Plan to bite at a 2tb gen5 ssd for about £150 when ever prices get there.
 
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