Which 1Tb M.2 - Samsung 970pro or Corsair Force ?

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Need a 1Tb M.2 that is very reliable and will still be fast enough in a few years time. Hence....

Corsair Force MP600 4950/4250 1,700,000 MTBF
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Samsung 970 Pro 3500/3300 1,500,000 MTBF

Thoughts ?. Currently using a Samsung SM951 MZVPV512HDGL and very happy hence a little apprehensive re moving to the Corsair...
 
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I'm in the market for a new SSD myself and am considering one of the Sabrent Rocket ones - bit there is a big difference in price between the PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 versions - presumably the 4.0 just runs at a higher speed?

My motherboard is the Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite and from what I can tell has two M.2 slots but I'm struggling to understand what type and/or speed M.2 drives are compatible with it!?!
 
StevieP said:
I'm in the market for a new SSD myself and am considering one of the Sabrent Rocket ones - bit there is a big difference in price between the PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 versions - presumably the 4.0 just runs at a higher speed?

My motherboard is the Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite and from what I can tell has two M.2 slots but I'm struggling to understand what type and/or speed M.2 drives are compatible with it!?!
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According to the manufacturers site:
Dual Ultra-Fast NVMe PCIe Gen3 M.2 (x4, x2) with One Thermal Guard
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Fastest will be the one closest to the CPU and you'll probably loose the use of 2 SATA ports using the 2nd one
 
StevieP said:
I'm in the market for a new SSD myself and am considering one of the Sabrent Rocket ones - bit there is a big difference in price between the PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 versions - presumably the 4.0 just runs at a higher speed?

My motherboard is the Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite and from what I can tell has two M.2 slots but I'm struggling to understand what type and/or speed M.2 drives are compatible with it!?!
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That motherboard and chipset only uses PCIe Gen 3.0 lanes. X570 is the one able to provide PCIe 4.0 lanes.

The top M.2 slot with the heatsink and which supports longer M.2 drives provides 4 x Gen 3.0 lanes.
  • 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 SATA and PCIe 3.0 x4/x2 SSD support) (M2A_SOCKET)
The second M.2 slot is only able to provide 2 x Gen 3.0 lanes.
  • 1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280 PCIe 3.0 x2 SSD support)(M2B_SOCKET)
So a PCIe Gen 4.0 PCIe drive will not be able to be taken advantage of, you will be limited by 4 x Gen 3.0 lanes anyways (and even then only the top slot on your board) which is a theoretical max of 3.94GB/s. So buying a Gen 4.0 version, you will be limited performance wise on your board. Can confirm this with following quote from the site: https://www.sabrent.com/product/SB-...-performance-solid-state-drive-with-heatsink/

Based on Toshiba’s BiCS4 96L TLC NAND Flash memory, its performance speeds can reach up to 5000 MB/s (read) and 2500 MB/s (write) when using a PCIe Gen4 motherboard. Using a PCIe Gen3 Motherboard Speeds will reach up to 3400 MB/s (read) and 2500 MB/s (write). Power consumption is much lower than traditional hard drives, making it the best embedded solution for new systems.
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So yeah TLDR, in your case, don't bother with the PCIe 4.0 drive, will be handicapped right out the box. Moreover, unless you have a very specific workload, the speed increase is going to make no difference to your workload really anyways. This actually applies to an extent when looking at SATA SSD's vs NVME drives in general for most users work loads, but with price delta not so much a big deal.
 
Wow.... I genuinely don't think they could have made that any more complicated if they'd tried! :confused:

Thanks for the info @Radox-0 - I think I follow - essentially I'm limited to PCIe 3.0 so the more expensive Sabrent drive is a waste of money for me and if I do get an M.2 drive, it wants to go in the 1st slot to get the best performance out of it! (Which incidentally looks like it's going to be underneath my graphics card!?!? - what a bizarre place to put it!)
 
StevieP said:
Wow.... I genuinely don't think they could have made that any more complicated if they'd tried! :confused:

Thanks for the info @Radox-0 - I think I follow - essentially I'm limited to PCIe 3.0 so the more expensive Sabrent drive is a waste of money for me and if I do get an M.2 drive, it wants to go in the 1st slot to get the best performance out of it! (Which incidentally looks like it's going to be underneath my graphics card!?!? - what a bizarre place to put it!)
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yup your summery is spot on, sorry should have simplified it a bit.

so yes, a PCIe gen 3.0 drive will be the best option, the more expensive sabrent drives using 4 x Gen 4.0 PCIe lanes will be wasted as they will not have enough bandwidth on your motherboard. Also correct, only the top slot right under the primary x16 slot where your gpu would go has 4 PCIe gen 3.0 lanes. The other slot on the board only has two lanes so will restrict the performance of even the sabrent gen 3.0 drives.
 
freddie64 said:
Hopefully just can't believe that price for a decent 1TB NVME.
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More likely, cheaper unknown brand, therefore must suck.

Someone who genuinely didn't think that you could get a decent NVME drive for that money, would ask more questions about such a drive...

Anyway; I didn't know how good Sabrent's NVMe drives were compared to other more well known brands, but after the recommendations I've seen on here, I'm more than likely going to get one.
 
Marsman said:
More likely, cheaper unknown brand, therefore must suck.

Someone who genuinely didn't think that you could get a decent NvME drive for that money, would ask more questions about such a drive...

Anyway; I didn't know how good Sabrent's NvME drives were compared to other more well known brands, but after the recommendations I've seen on here, I'm more than likely going to get one.
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US based company and you get a 5 year warranty with every drive.

They really are spot on tbh, unbeatable for the price.
 
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