PNY CS1030 M.2 2280 NVMe 2TB $209 + $9.90 Delivery (Free Pickup from Auburn NSW) @ PCByte

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jl434 on 15/02/2022 - 22:32 pcbyte.com.au (360 clicks)
Last edited 16/02/2022 - 01:38 by 1 other user

Last deal from Photech Computers: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/681424
It was $199 but 3% surcharge for Paypal + Delievery

Spec

• Capacity: 2TB
• Form Factor : M.2 (2280)
• Read : 2100 MB/s
• Write : 1900 MB/s
• Driver Interface: PCIe Gen3

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  Italkdigital on 15/02/2022 - 22:58

  +1

  Not sure about performance compared to other well known brands? nice for a storage drivve on my second m.2 slot if these are designed for that?,. though I'm sure the important question is to use this as a boot drive?, I'm sure people want to know like me?

  Edit: like important questions as below 👍😁

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    jmcc on 16/02/2022 - 12:51

    Someone posted they had a pretty terrible experience with these on a deal I posted for the 980 pro. 70mb/sec during sustained write, pretty abysmal for an m.2 ssd.

    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/11765531/redir

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  Azif on 15/02/2022 - 23:00

  Is this actually tlc as suggested in the other deal. Apparently pny downgraded the tbw on their better drives so likely switched to qlc
  https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pny-xlr8-cs-3030-ssd-endur…

  Anyone who bought the other can share?

  Is the bpc Corsair mf 600 a better choice?

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  xdivino on 16/02/2022 - 09:41

  As a Steam Game drive? thoughts? my boot SSD is full up so figured this might suit for game storage?

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    jl434 on 16/02/2022 - 18:27

    Shouldn't be issue for steam game drive

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  richieisnow on 16/02/2022 - 11:19

  would this one work on PS5?

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  fastnet on 16/02/2022 - 12:50

  Looks like the sustained write speed drops to 70 mb/s on this once the cache is exhausted.

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  jl434 on 16/02/2022 - 18:36

  It is a DRAM-less SSD, if you need sustained write, go for the DRAM one

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  pinchies on 16/02/2022 - 22:20

  I received a CS1030 from the previous ozbargain deal for this drive. I can confirm the behaviour seen by others. I managed to copy about 500GB at ~450MB/s, until write speed cratered to under 85MB/s — dipping as low as 30MB/s. It does recover at times, up to 1.7GB/s, but mostly remains at 60-80MB/s. I suspect this would point to QLC not TLC, but havent peeled the label off yet.

  So beware as a boot drive, likely perfectly fine as a game drive. I'm just filling the drive now to do some further tests of performance when mostly filled with uncompressible data.

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    pinchies on 20/02/2022 - 21:59

    +1

    Pulled the label off. CS1030 2TB is using QLC flash.