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2TB Seagate Firecuda 520 NVMe Gen4 SSD $170
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How is this not standard practice when posting?
This will be a fine addition for my new build this Dec.
any advice if its worth it to go $20 more and get this drive? a 1.8m MTBF means this should be as durable?
any advice if its worth it to go $20 more and get this drive? a 1.8m MTBF means this should be as durable?
If that means Gen 4 will always feel faster than a Gen 3 while usng a computer, then no that won't be the case.
But there are scenarios where it will speed up things. For example, if the computer needs to swap out of or into memory when available memory is used up, it will happen much faster with Gen 4.
Will result in faster app switches and startups to get the bits into memory if processing is not the bottleneck.
Or apps that do storage read/process/write back operations like media processing if not constrained by processing speed will happen faster.
The bottleneck right now is that the max pcie speeds and bandwidth are only leveraged between the CPU and other pcie source/destimations, any other storage usage like backups, downloads, etc are constrained by the external connection or bus speeds and throughput.
But architectures and software will evolve to use the additional speed fairly soon.
"Oooooooh, Firecuda....."
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any advice if its worth it to go $20 more and get this drive? a 1.8m MTBF means this should be as durable?
any advice if its worth it to go $20 more and get this drive? a 1.8m MTBF means this should be as durable?
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