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Just watched a review recently about these that they are basically "good enough" for most day-to-day storage operations. They are about in line with PCI-E 3 devices, but at a reasonable cost. They ultimately recommended the P3 Plus over this, but said this was a still a good value.
WD SN770 and Solidigm(SK Hynix) P41 Plus are both considerably better values than this.
Wait a few days, and one of 'em will pop back on sale.
These up/down prices, IMO are a 'game' being played to minimize 'losses' on all these NAND devices (as BOM prices plummet)
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From an unorthodox 'techie' perspective, all these 'low-end' Gen4 drives that barely saturate a Gen3 connection, have a use. Any motherboard with Gen4 X1 slots can use a cheap adapter card, and lose very little real performance. (Gen4 x1 ~ Gen3 x2 ~ Gen2 x4)
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WD SN770 and Solidigm(SK Hynix) P41 Plus are both considerably better values than this.
Wait a few days, and one of 'em will pop back on sale.
These up/down prices, IMO are a 'game' being played to minimize 'losses' on all these NAND devices (as BOM prices plummet)
Edit:
From an unorthodox 'techie' perspective, all these 'low-end' Gen4 drives that barely saturate a Gen3 connection, have a use. Any motherboard with Gen4 X1 slots can use a cheap adapter card, and lose very little real performance. (Gen4 x1 ~ Gen3 x2 ~ Gen2 x4)
"Intel ended the year 2021 with a bang. The company on Dec. 29 unveiled a two-phase plan to sell its SSD business and certain NAND SSD-associated intellectual properties, as well as its Dalian, China-based NAND memory manufacturing facility, to South Korea-based semiconductor manufacturer SK Hynix, in a deal worth $7 billion. That includes the creation of a new company, Solidigm, owned by SK Hynix. The Korean company is also slated to pay Intel an additional $2 billion after it acquires Intel's remaining NAND business assets in 2025."
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WD SN770 and Solidigm(SK Hynix) P41 Plus are both considerably better values than this.
Wait a few days, and one of 'em will pop back on sale.
These up/down prices, IMO are a 'game' being played to minimize 'losses' on all these NAND devices (as BOM prices plummet)
Edit:
From an unorthodox 'techie' perspective, all these 'low-end' Gen4 drives that barely saturate a Gen3 connection, have a use. Any motherboard with Gen4 X1 slots can use a cheap adapter card, and lose very little real performance. (Gen4 x1 ~ Gen3 x2 ~ Gen2 x4)
Also, some motherboards also can only run one of their M2 slots at Gen4 speed, this speed would be fine for the second slot although I would pay extra for less heat / more reliability.
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For the same 1tb price, get this MP34 (or anything else that is similar to fit in such a tight budget)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...=UTF8
And for 2tb get WD SN770, or any of the other great 2tb SSD's that have gone on sale lately.
Saving ~$4 for such large storage is a bad idea, and you will pay for it with frustration and time, if not in the worst-case, with data loss.
Wait a few days, and one of 'em will pop back on sale.
These up/down prices, IMO are a 'game' being played to minimize 'losses' on all these NAND devices (as BOM prices plummet)
Edit:
From an unorthodox 'techie' perspective, all these 'low-end' Gen4 drives that barely saturate a Gen3 connection, have a use. Any motherboard with Gen4 X1 slots can use a cheap adapter card, and lose very little real performance. (Gen4 x1 ~ Gen3 x2 ~ Gen2 x4)
Wait a few days, and one of 'em will pop back on sale.
These up/down prices, IMO are a 'game' being played to minimize 'losses' on all these NAND devices (as BOM prices plummet)
Edit:
From an unorthodox 'techie' perspective, all these 'low-end' Gen4 drives that barely saturate a Gen3 connection, have a use. Any motherboard with Gen4 X1 slots can use a cheap adapter card, and lose very little real performance. (Gen4 x1 ~ Gen3 x2 ~ Gen2 x4)
"Intel ended the year 2021 with a bang. The company on Dec. 29 unveiled a two-phase plan to sell its SSD business and certain NAND SSD-associated intellectual properties, as well as its Dalian, China-based NAND memory manufacturing facility, to South Korea-based semiconductor manufacturer SK Hynix, in a deal worth $7 billion. That includes the creation of a new company, Solidigm, owned by SK Hynix. The Korean company is also slated to pay Intel an additional $2 billion after it acquires Intel's remaining NAND business assets in 2025."
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Wait a few days, and one of 'em will pop back on sale.
These up/down prices, IMO are a 'game' being played to minimize 'losses' on all these NAND devices (as BOM prices plummet)
Edit:
From an unorthodox 'techie' perspective, all these 'low-end' Gen4 drives that barely saturate a Gen3 connection, have a use. Any motherboard with Gen4 X1 slots can use a cheap adapter card, and lose very little real performance. (Gen4 x1 ~ Gen3 x2 ~ Gen2 x4)
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