PCI-E 4.0 drives

Shaolin Chicken · 4 Nov 2020 at 19:29

RichL said:
SN850 just arrived

Nice, let us know how it performs.

golden751 · 4 Nov 2020 at 19:59

I managed to get (what I think) is a killer deal on a Seagate FireCuda 520 PCIe4 2TB for 191 about two weeks ago.. don't know if it was a misprice or not.. went back to 350 after I ordered it. I'm surprised it wasn't canceled considering that was cheaper than a lot of pcie 3 drives

pigeonguyuk · 5 Nov 2020 at 12:15

golden751 said:
I managed to get (what I think) is a killer deal on a Seagate FireCuda 520 PCIe4 2TB for 191 about two weeks ago.. don't know if it was a misprice or not.. went back to 350 after I ordered it. I'm surprised it wasn't canceled considering that was cheaper than a lot of pcie 3 drives

that is a killer deal ! th 1tb is on average £230 most retailers

RichL · 5 Nov 2020 at 13:34

Great price for a 2TB

pigeonguyuk · 5 Nov 2020 at 13:41

i see the previous comment about new gen 4 controls due to come out fro phison. Ive been looking at the Cosrair MP600 and Samsung 980 drives as theya re know and trusted for realibility. im wanting a 500gb and a 1tb. will also look at WD and segate as well. Hoping to get some on black friday. with the release of new controllers would i be better just getting the 500gb one and holding off or just pulling the trigger now

Shaolin Chicken · 6 Nov 2020 at 20:23

I'm waiting for some black friday deals on pcie 4 drives also.

Cenuij · 7 Nov 2020 at 02:03

The performance is not really the issue, the prices are too high in general but seem to be coming down.

MegaPinches · 7 Nov 2020 at 13:45

Is the rocket 4 plus ever coming out, want to see price. Cheers

havenrl · 7 Nov 2020 at 15:33

Shaolin Chicken said:
I'm waiting for some black friday deals on pcie 4 drives also.

MegaPinches said:
Is the rocket 4 plus ever coming out, want to see price. Cheers

This and this.

Product availability, where are they?

chaparral · 7 Nov 2020 at 17:21

Was going to order a 2TB MP600 this weekend but the Samsung 2TB 970 Evo plus has just dropped big time in price

Now am confused on which one i want to order now the 2TB 970 Evo plus is £60 cheaper then the 2TB MP600 :confused:

GloriousMess · 8 Nov 2020 at 14:03

Gigabyte X570 I Aorus Pro WiFi
Sabrent Rocket NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 (2TB) in the CPU slot (on top, not underneath)
CrystalDiskMark 7.0.0 x64, default settings

There is a catch: in this motherboard I had to wait 10-30s for the drive to cool down to get peak benchmark results. Mini-ITX X570 boards really seem to suck at cooling these things during artificial stress tests, but the drive seems fine. Hovers around 50-60C idle.

MegaPinches · 8 Nov 2020 at 14:40

GloriousMess said:
Gigabyte X570 I Aorus Pro WiFi
Sabrent Rocket NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 (2TB) in the CPU slot (on top, not underneath)
CrystalDiskMark 7.0.0 x64, default settings

There is a catch: in this motherboard I had to wait 10-30s for the drive to cool down to get peak benchmark results. Mini-ITX X570 boards really seem to suck at cooling these things during artificial stress tests, but the drive seems fine. Hovers around 50-60C idle.

Can you do AS SSD Bench please? can see the access time?

cheers

GloriousMess · 8 Nov 2020 at 15:36

MegaPinches said:
Can you do AS SSD Bench please? can see the access time?

MegaPinches · 8 Nov 2020 at 15:59

GloriousMess said:

Sweet cheers, ill grab one of these if they go cheaper when the plus comes out or get the plus if its reasonable price (it wont be!)

GloriousMess · 8 Nov 2020 at 18:21

MegaPinches said:
Sweet cheers, ill grab one of these if they go cheaper when the plus comes out or get the plus if its reasonable price (it wont be!)

Good choice, it's a solid drive. I went 2TB despite the cost as I hate fiddling with motherboard connections.

Aidan Mulvenna · 8 Nov 2020 at 19:12

Managed to grab a Sabrent Rocket PCIE 4.0 1TB for £125 barely used for my upcoming 5600X/6800XT build. Planning ahead for whatever "direct storage" stuff we will get.

pigeonguyuk · 14 Nov 2020 at 17:26

Picked myself up a firecuda 521 1TB for £162, made us of a 20% code on auction site xD

Deluxe1 · 18 Nov 2020 at 17:13

Just installed two 1tb SN850's.

gronf · 18 Nov 2020 at 23:59

Deluxe, indeed. Too rich for my tight-git blood.

Stu · 19 Nov 2020 at 14:22

pigeonguyuk said:
Picked myself up a firecuda 521 1TB for £162, made us of a 20% code on auction site xD

The 20% discount was nice! I went for capacity over speed and got a 2TB ADATA 8200 Pro for £186... Game load times look respectable vs PCIE4 drives. Going to hold out for next year to get a speed king drive after the new controllers flood the market.