Specs
Capacity: 1TB
Interface: PCIe Gen 3
Dimensions (L X W X H): 3.15" x 0.95" x 0.32"
Sequential Read Performance: 3430MB/s
Sequential Write Performance: 3000MB/s
Form Factor: M.2 2280
Generally reviewed in the same ballpark as Samsung EVOs, highly rated card.
Lowest I have seen as of yet, backordered but a great deal regardless.
A very slick deal. Have almost received my SN550. If it wasn't for the urgency I would definitely order and wait for this one.
If you happen to live near a Micro Center in the US they generally price match everyone as long as you are polite and such. While in-stock is a pain right now, they get shipments all the time it seems (I was waiting on a back order and they happened to receive the things I needed a month before I expected mine.) Check their website daily if so, and you can buy it online for in store pickup.
I bought this last round, amazingly fast. I have a first gen WD Black NVMe drive as my boot disk, it runs 1892 MB/s read 853 MB/s write at Seq Q32T1 1GB size in Crystal Disk Mark. This drive runs 3403 MB/s read and 3103 MB/s in the same test. Worth the money.
I was holding out for the heatsink version but this is a great price. Do you think the heatsink is necessary? These run hot no?
In "most" cases no you don't need one. Heavily depends on usage. If you are constantly transferring large amounts of data for a server or something probably. Some MOBOs have a heatsink already as well. If it's for basic consumer use or gaming/light production you don't need it unless you have SLI GPUs or something right on top of it cooking it. (High ambient temps)
If you happen to live near a Micro Center in the US they generally price match everyone as long as you are polite and such. While in-stock is a pain right now, they get shipments all the time it seems (I was waiting on a back order and they happened to receive the things I needed a month before I expected mine.) Check their website daily if so, and you can buy it online for in store pickup.
Thanks! There's one about two hours away. Worth a shot for a weekend trip.
Is it a waste to use this as a portable drive to store steam games to take from computer to computer? I don't mind the longer load times compared to a direct sata motherboard connection, I'm more concerned about overuse of read-write and affect on longevity if I'm taking it from computer to computer (will only switch computers every few weeks or so). E.g. I'd like to have a portable gta 5, tf2, some triple a games, etc.
In "most" cases no you don't need one. Heavily depends on usage. If you are constantly transferring large amounts of data for a server or something probably. Some MOBOs have a heatsink already as well. If it's for basic consumer use or gaming/light production you don't need it unless you have SLI GPUs or something right on top of it cooking it. (High ambient temps)
Thanks, gonna give it a shot. No M2 heatsink built in to my board unfortunately. This is a great price so I'll get a heatsink for $5 bucks and install it myself if it comes down to it. Thanks OP as well.
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Capacity: 1TB
Interface: PCIe Gen 3
Dimensions (L X W X H): 3.15" x 0.95" x 0.32"
Sequential Read Performance: 3430MB/s
Sequential Write Performance: 3000MB/s
Form Factor: M.2 2280
Generally reviewed in the same ballpark as Samsung EVOs, highly rated card.
Lowest I have seen as of yet, backordered but a great deal regardless.
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Thanks! There's one about two hours away. Worth a shot for a weekend trip.