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expired Posted by phoinix | Staff • Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025 8:25 AM
4TB Western Digital Blue SN5000 M.2 PCIe Gen 4.0 NVMe Solid State Drive SSD
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If you desperately need a 4TB NVMe ASAP, this one will be ok, especially as a game storage drive, but I'd pay $50 more and buy the HP FX900 Pro if you needed an NVMe to use as a system drive for sure.
Having said that, I've been monitoring NVMe prices every day for the last few weeks. I really need additional storage. I'm holding out to see if better drives come down in price before I pull the trigger. Ideally I'd like to get something like the FX900 Pro but more at the $200 price point, for my needs.
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If you desperately need a 4TB NVMe ASAP, this one will be ok, especially as a game storage drive, but I'd pay $50 more and buy the HP FX900 Pro if you needed an NVMe to use as a system drive for sure.
Having said that, I've been monitoring NVMe prices every day for the last few weeks. I really need additional storage. I'm holding out to see if better drives come down in price before I pull the trigger. Ideally I'd like to get something like the FX900 Pro but more at the $200 price point, for my needs.
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If you desperately need a 4TB NVMe ASAP, this one will be ok, especially as a game storage drive, but I'd pay $50 more and buy the HP FX900 Pro if you needed an NVMe to use as a system drive for sure.
Having said that, I've been monitoring NVMe prices every day for the last few weeks. I really need additional storage. I'm holding out to see if better drives come down in price before I pull the trigger. Ideally I'd like to get something like the FX900 Pro but more at the $200 price point, for my needs.
I'd do the research on that drive and see if they fixed the issue with the innogrit controller failures. I've personally had the predator gm7000 4tb fail from it, and it's essentially the same drive as the hp fx900 pro.
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If you desperately need a 4TB NVMe ASAP, this one will be ok, especially as a game storage drive, but I'd pay $50 more and buy the HP FX900 Pro if you needed an NVMe to use as a system drive for sure.
Having said that, I've been monitoring NVMe prices every day for the last few weeks. I really need additional storage. I'm holding out to see if better drives come down in price before I pull the trigger. Ideally I'd like to get something like the FX900 Pro but more at the $200 price point, for my needs.
It uses a MAXIO MAP1602A controller with speeds of up to 7000/6500 MB/s.
This controller is used on the Acer Predator GM7 and Team Group MP44L and the Lexar NM790. It come with a heatsink and pads for PS5.
https://pcper.com/2023/11/lexar-n...ymtc-nand/
I have been pretty happy with it for PS5, it scored over 6900 after the format. It took a bit to move the 600gb of stuff off the external backup. But that's not the M.2's fault. The backup drive was just slower.
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I'm not entirely opposed to getting a more expensive drive if there's an obvious material benefit for doing so – I was simply under the impression that features such as DRAM cache aren't important for simple game data storage. Perhaps I misunderstood?
I'm browsing Amazon right now for 4TB NVMe drives at the $250 price point, seems like there are several popular choices there.
I bought a 2TB Chinese brand SSD that has TLC without DRAM for less than $90 about a year ago and it's doing fine as my boot drive running 24/7
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When we were all replacing rust spinners, it was easy to say "well this has lots of storage so I'll just make it a second drive for cold storage". But now... we're replacing NVMe drives that computers come with (256GB, 512GB) and replacing it with something superior in every way (size, speed, dram, nand type, etc)... sooooo... it feels ultra stupid to have a secondary drive that is inferior in every way.
Thoughts?