PCI-E 4.0 drives
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I was looking at that too, but I was concerned that I might not be able to check that it works because I'm waiting on a 5900x... didn't want a nasty surprise in January and no warranty cover.
I did contact Sabrent about buying from a private seller and they said this:
However, it is weird when you register for the warranty that ebay is one of the options you can pick. I'm sure I'm being overly paranoid, and hope you don't have any issues (if you ever need to use the warranty, or otherwise).
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At the end of the day it doesn't or at least shouldn't matter if I bought it from my local budget PC place, a major UK retailer, an "authorised" retailer or a retailer on an auction site. Who's to say that "unknown rainforest merchant" will even be around in 2 years?
If they allowed me to register for warranty under their own qualifying rules (a valid serial, proof of receipt of payment) and then they don't honor that, then of course word will be loudly spread and that's the last thing you ever buy from that manufacturer.
Rainforest has the Samsung 980 500GB in stock for a reasonable price (just shy of 140) right now so I decided to bite the bullet and order, since it only works out something like ~£20 more than a 250GB one here
Ah, WD SN850 is a touch cheaper and supposedly a better drive. Dunno if I should change over. Thoughts?
Ah, WD SN850 is a touch cheaper and supposedly a better drive. Dunno if I should change over. Thoughts?
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Happy with my 500gb 850.
I honestly don't think there will be a huge real life usage difference between these SSDs, as they are all high performing. For a given budget, are you more likely to regret losing 0.5 seconds on a game load time, or running out of storage space because you got the 500GB drive that is a fraction faster? My choice is clear, because I got a 2TB Adata 8200 Pro.
Examples? Benchmarks, boot time, game load time?
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.
I have this.mobo. The M.2 slot has a fan on it, are you saying it's not good enough?
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Hmm, difficult to say. I've not experienced any problems but then the drive is so bloody fast. I doubt 5GB/sec down to 3GB/sec is even noticeable when loading something like Battlefield 5, or The Division 2. I only suggest you have good case airflow, as that was the biggest influencer in NVMe drive temperature.
Hi has anyone done a raid 0 setup, I've got 1x980 Pro installed and will be getting another to raid 0 on my x570 mobo with 5900x cpu, I'm sure I read somewhere windows 10 has the raid drivers included, can anyone confirm this or is it the usual fresh install then use a USB stick to install amd raid
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I don’t see the point in running raid when these drives are so fast to begin with. Seems a bit pointless to me?
Fair point just want to have a go basically,
got my 980 Pro.
It replaced a Corsair MP600.
Much better all round.
Faster peak read/write, much better sustained read/write, runs a good 10c cooler under load and a big increase in Q1 reads (60% faster small Q1 reads - translates to games loading a couple seconds faster and streaming assets quicker) - also a big increase in IOPS, I've benched the 980 Pro at 975k IOPS, the MP600 produced 550k
It replaced a Corsair MP600.
Much better all round.
Faster peak read/write, much better sustained read/write, runs a good 10c cooler under load and a big increase in Q1 reads (60% faster small Q1 reads - translates to games loading a couple seconds faster and streaming assets quicker) - also a big increase in IOPS, I've benched the 980 Pro at 975k IOPS, the MP600 produced 550k