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idgi is that supposed to be good?
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# ? Jan 14, 2018 21:28 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 07:12 |
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:idgi is that supposed to be good?
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# ? Jan 14, 2018 21:47 |
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Yeah that's pretty drat good, especially for the price.
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# ? Jan 14, 2018 21:49 |
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I have a 960 EVO that I installed in an M2 slot that's right in between the top PCI-e slot and the CPU socket, and then installed the dinky little "heatsink" that came with the motherboard (it's more like a solid block of aluminium with a thermal pad on the bottom) on top of it. Since it's crammed in between the back plate of the graphics card and the CPU cooler, it naturally gets pretty toasty and it sits around 50-60 degrees C most of the time. Now, I have some vague recollection that NAND storage actually wants to be pretty warm, but I just figured I'd check if anyone knows if there are any articles about longer term effects of this stuff. There is a second slot on the board way down at the bottom that I could move it to, but I think the airflow there might not necessarily be better - it's just not quite as close to a bunch of hot things. Relatedly, anyone know the difference between the two temp sensors on the 960 EVO? Wild rear end guess says controller vs NAND but which is which?
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# ? Jan 15, 2018 18:14 |
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I found out that my benchmark results with my 960Evo are down, but not by 50% - flashing the card BIOS improved it. It's around 15% down at 4k reads since pre patch though. But this is a terrible benchmark since I have now: - installed the Samsung driver - updated the SSD bios - patched windows
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# ? Jan 16, 2018 02:54 |
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:Bench of my mx500 1tb that i got yesterday Intel 750 nvme code:
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# ? Jan 16, 2018 20:02 |
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Is it weird that the 4k random writes are faster than the corresponding reads?
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# ? Jan 16, 2018 20:30 |
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Naffer posted:Is it weird that the 4k random writes are faster than the corresponding reads? mostly to do with how SSDs (and nand flash) work really
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 00:24 |
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Looking forward to the NVME MX500 numbers, hope there isn't a big premium over an equivalently-sized SATA version.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 00:52 |
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Is there any practical difference between 2D and 3D NAND for M2 SSDs other than $50? WD Blue 1TB PC SSD - SATA 6 Gb/s M.2 2280 Solid State Drive - WDS100T1G1B0B [Old Version] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LYOKOJI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_pfjyAbXKRV369 WD Blue 3D NAND 1TB PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s M.2 2280 Solid State Drive - WDS100T2B0B https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073SB2MXT/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fjjyAbMBR5HZW I need extra space for my Steam library and mods. Windows is already on a 1TB NVME drive (that Toshiba one).
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 13:27 |
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No, but the first link is quoting a used price.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 14:49 |
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Theoretically 3D NAND might have a larger process, therefore it could have better longevity.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 15:18 |
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:No, but the first link is quoting a used price. Oh, good catch! Non-used are also $300, so I might as well go with 3D NAND when I pull the trigger. Thank you!
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 18:14 |
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:For the OS drive (which usually robs 500 QD1 4K random read IOPs), yeah by miles I wonder what the real world use difference is compared to, say, a 840 EVO?
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# ? Jan 21, 2018 03:36 |
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OhFunny posted:I wonder what the real world use difference is compared to, say, a 840 EVO? the MX500 loses only like 7% in sequential when filled and micron's habit of overprovisioning 28% for consumer drives leaves IOPs relatively untouched
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# ? Jan 21, 2018 04:50 |
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:An 840 EVO is going to have serious drops in overall performance as it gets filled up Oh that's good to know. Thanks. My 1 TB 840 EVO's got 118GB free space left and I've been putting things on my HDD. May be time to do away with the spinner.
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# ? Jan 21, 2018 08:10 |
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Shaocaholica posted:Guh do I need to register my SSDs now?....nah gently caress it. Ain’t got no time to reg the 1000s of parts I have. They accepted my RMA and just sent a tracking number. From the status email, it looks like PNY opted to replace my failing 3.5 year old 240G XLR8 Pro drive with a 480GB CS131. I'm bummed that I had a drive failure but at least I didn't lose my data and the RMA process was totally painless.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 14:54 |
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Samsung Announces 860 PRO And 860 EVO
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 16:14 |
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Naffer posted:Don saga seems to be nearing a conclusion. Thats good because the last RMA I did with PNY sucked. But this was a long time ago. Good to hear they are doing better.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 16:24 |
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I'm looking to replace all the HDDs in our office PCs (x8) with SSDs, and the 250GB Crucial MX500 is cheaper on Amazon that all the other decent drives I'd consider: MX300, 850 Evo, WD Blue 3D at similar capacities. I know it's early days but is the MX500 looking like a decent bet?
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 16:55 |
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GigaFuzz posted:I'm looking to replace all the HDDs in our office PCs (x8) with SSDs, and the 250GB Crucial MX500 is cheaper on Amazon that all the other decent drives I'd consider: MX300, 850 Evo, WD Blue 3D at similar capacities.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 16:56 |
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That $330 MSRP for the 1TB M.2 is interesting, that's cheaper than the current 850 EVO version. But it's still SATA, apparently has the same performance as the 850, and the MX500 M.2 is coming with a $260 MSRP. Meh.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 18:40 |
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Intel just launched the 760p series as well: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12349/the-intel-ssd-760p-512gb-review They're still using 3rd party controllers but performance is a lot better than the 600p, and for slightly less money.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 20:08 |
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Hmm $649.99 for a 2TB 860 EVO vs $499.99 for a 2TB Crucial MX500 seems to put Samsung at a disadvantage.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 21:38 |
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if the 860 pro review is anything to go by, 80 (because you know it's always going to be on perma-"discount") to 150 dollar markup for a minor improvement over something within 2 percent of the 850 evo isn't very compelling. and i'm not sure samsung has the inertia with solid state drives as intel does with CPUs, OEMs (which are most of the sales) love sandisk more than anyone else.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 23:29 |
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Looks like samsung is directly selling 850 EVOs for decent prices (250GB for $89.99, 500GB for $139.99, etc). I've seen cheaper but they're reasonable: https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/ssd-850-evo-2-5-sata-iii-500gb-mz-75e500b-am/
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 02:26 |
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:if the 860 pro review is anything to go by, 80 (because you know it's always going to be on perma-"discount") to 150 dollar markup for a minor improvement over something within 2 percent of the 850 evo isn't very compelling. I go as far as to say if you take the 860 Pro over a much faster (raw) 960 Evo which also costs around the same GB/$, you are pretty much an idiot, much less the far cheaper (and lol still faster) MX500. Palladium fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Jan 24, 2018 |
# ? Jan 24, 2018 04:18 |
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Intel's also beating the new 900-series Samsung NVMe drives to market with the 760p, and the 512GB has a $199 MSRP. It doesn't have 3000MB/sec speeds, but honestly do you *need* that?
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 06:42 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:It doesn't have 3000MB/sec speeds, but honestly do you *need* that?
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 06:52 |
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This is what ya'll need (Asus and some other companies have this too) Getcher VROC unlock!
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 06:57 |
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Wonder how 4 800ps compare to a single 900p in that
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 07:00 |
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So why does anybody care about VROC anyway? Is the performance significantly better than software raid? I get that it's bootable, but if you're throwing money at multiple NVME SSDs you can also just get some small drive to be the boot volume for the same price as your VROC key.
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 07:45 |
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Kind of a moot point, as the 512GB *does* have 3000MB+/sec speeds: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12349/the-intel-ssd-760p-512gb-review
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 08:58 |
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priznat posted:This is what ya'll need Lol that fan
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 10:04 |
priznat posted:This is what ya'll need Are you supposed to mount a duct cover on the card after installing the M.2 sticks, to control the air flow? Otherwise that fan makes no sense.
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 14:11 |
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priznat posted:This is what ya'll need
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 15:13 |
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https://www.asrock.com/mb/spec/product.asp?Model=ULTRA%20QUAD%20M.2%20CARD Look at the fifth picture, I'm guessing the fan shroud doubles as a heatsink.
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 15:26 |
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Yeah there is a shroud that has thermal pads for the m.2s as well as acts as a duct for the fan.
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 17:01 |
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I like the piece of black, hockey stick tape used to hold down the fan's power leads.
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 21:26 |
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:Definitely Asrock's C-team, because they'd normally add 4 more m.2 slots on the rear side of the card. 4x4 = 16
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 21:47 |