PCI-E 4.0 drives

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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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::o
 
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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

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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.
 
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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

r2Ha1MN.png

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
 
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Just installed two 1tb SN850's.

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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.
 
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