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Amazon.com: Addlink S90 Lite 4TB NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 3D NAND Internal Gaming SSD - Read Speed up to 5000 MB/s (ad4TBS90LTM2P) : Electronics $198.44
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I'm not familiar with the brand so I worry what's under the hood.
The Amazon reviews are unhelpful, because the reviews are for different unrelated drives, not actually this particular 4TB specific model.
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I'm not familiar with the brand so I worry what's under the hood.
The Amazon reviews are unhelpful, because the reviews are for different unrelated drives, not actually this particular 4TB specific model.
The 2TB model has pretty poor performance after it fills its pSLC cache (~145GB); sustained writes are only 200Mbps after the cache is full. So if you're going to be doing really heavy, sustained workloads, this isn't the right drive. (Unless this problem has been somehow addressed in firmware or on the 4TB variant.)
This is probably fine for a midrange gaming PC, or as a secondary storage drive (or extra capacity for a console).
https://www.tomshardwar
The 2TB model has pretty poor performance after it fills its pSLC cache (~145GB); sustained writes are only 200Mbps after the cache is full. So if you're going to be doing really heavy, sustained workloads, this isn't the right drive. (Unless this problem has been somehow addressed in firmware or on the 4TB variant.)
This is probably fine for a midrange gaming PC, or as a secondary storage drive (or extra capacity for a console).
https://www.tomshardwar
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But for most people and games these are such limited cases they're not important. Perhaps only the last one if you're playing some online multiplayer that regularly received massive updates but this is unlikely to apply here anyway since few people will have an internet connection capable of saturating a 200MB/s drive. (I'm not even sure many updaters would be able to even if the internet connection is that fast.)
When actually playing, writes are only likely for saves and caches for compiled shaders etc. But both of these are small enough that write speeds aren't likely to be a big factor or maybe no factor with decent write caching. And most compilations only happen one either when you first start up the game or when first encountered (e.g. a new area in game) If you're recording the game, this also needs to be stored but you have to be saving at some crazy bitrate for write speeds to matter and your SSD is going to quickly fill up if you're doing that.
Also it's quite common that stuff will be stored on the system device instead of the game storage device anyway. Note that because of various other stuff that your system might be doing in the background, writes can matter for the system drive while gaming and this is when we consider that even so, it's unlikely the pSLC cache will be saturated.
The 2TB model has pretty poor performance after it fills its pSLC cache (~145GB); sustained writes are only 200Mbps after the cache is full. So if you're going to be doing really heavy, sustained workloads, this isn't the right drive. (Unless this problem has been somehow addressed in firmware or on the 4TB variant.)
This is probably fine for a midrange gaming PC, or as a secondary storage drive (or extra capacity for a console).
https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...d-review/2 [tomshardware.com]
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You don't necessarily need DRAM, though. There are several DRAM-less SSDs that perform perfectly fine for their intended use-case. Check out this tier list:
https://linustechtips.c
The S and A tiers all have DRAM. (You'll note that I didn't recommend any S tier drives; they are too expensive for their value, IMO.) But you can get a B or C tier drive and still be in pretty solid shape if you're not doing extensive and LARGE read/writes.
I own a Samsung 980 PRO, a Nextorage Japan, and an 850X. The 980 is 2TB; the rest are 4TB. (I also own a Blade S70, in my PS5.) All four of these drives have been solid performers (though with Samsung, stay on top of firmware updates!)
But for most people and games these are such limited cases they're not important. Perhaps only the last one if you're playing some online multiplayer that regularly received massive updates but this is unlikely to apply here anyway since few people will have an internet connection capable of saturating a 200MB/s drive. (I'm not even sure many updaters would be able to even if the internet connection is that fast.)
When actually playing, writes are only likely for saves and caches for compiled shaders etc. But both of these are small enough that write speeds aren't likely to be a big factor or maybe no factor with decent write caching. And most compilations only happen one either when you first start up the game or when first encountered (e.g. a new area in game) If you're recording the game, this also needs to be stored but you have to be saving at some crazy bitrate for write speeds to matter and your SSD is going to quickly fill up if you're doing that.
Also it's quite common that stuff will be stored on the system device instead of the game storage device anyway. Note that because of various other stuff that your system might be doing in the background, writes can matter for the system drive while gaming and this is when we consider that even so, it's unlikely the pSLC cache will be saturated.
I'm just guessing, but we probably won't see good prices again until very late 2024 if we're really lucky, or more likely 2025. Actually it would 2026 if the companies can continue the fake, BS, deliberate, artificial "shortage"......
I'm just guessing, but we probably won't see good prices again until very late 2024 if we're really lucky, or more likely 2025. Actually it would 2026 if the companies can continue the fake, BS, deliberate, artificial "shortage"......
I'm just guessing, but we probably won't see good prices again until very late 2024 if we're really lucky, or more likely 2025. Actually it would 2026 if the companies can continue the fake, BS, deliberate, artificial "shortage"......
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