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This is PCI5.0, one of the fastest drives available (behind the Samsung 9100 and Cruical T705).
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Thought the same… It's their third SSD offering so no clue why they would choose that name. Not like they're running out of options and it doesn't relate at all to past naming schemes. (NV3400, NV7500… Which are rated for 3400 and 7500MB/s)
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No, I don't think I will.
snooze you lose
Agreed
Someone probably had a laugh setting that code, lol
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/silicon-moti…
First ever sm2508 ssd looks quite interesting. See how it goes.
This is rated 1.6M/2M IOPS, that one is 2M/2M for 1TB or 2.5M 2.5M for 2TB (different flash)
You can get better drives already (Samsung s9100 2.2M/2.6M) but it costs ~$300; not $196.
Edit:
Benchmarks place this between the Cruical T700 and T705. The T700 is currently $255 at BigW with code MUM15 ($15 delivery) https://www.bigw.com.au/product/crucial-t700-1tb-ct1000t700s…
A good indepth review / benchmarks is available here:
https://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/simon-crisp/bi… Note all the drives it's comparing to are PCI5.0, so it's throwing pretty good blows against other PCI5.0 drives - it's definitely outperforming any available PCI 4.0 drive.
PassMark wise it actually sits on par with the s9100, but Passmark benchmark rating's aren't great for comparing real world performance tbh.
Would be cool with 4 of these and https://www.amazon.com.au/ASUS-M-2-Supports-Platform-Functio… in RAID lol
40-50GB/s, games would load instantly
Edit: Someone has 4 of them with 16 drives in total on Threadripper… Geez PCI5.0 NVMe is going to be good for server IOPS.
https://preview.redd.it/anyone-used-an-asus-hyper-m-2-x16-ge…
Had an ASUS motherboard with two M.2 sockets off the CPU., Tried to set up RAID to see how fast it was. Gave up. ASUS had instructions describing the general principles of how to do it, but when it came to supplying actual software to do it I couldn't find it.
You can do it in Windows 10/11 via disk manager, simply right click the disk and click 'create dynamic disk', then right click the main volume and click 'mirror'. Select the second (unformatted) disk. That's software RAID though; not bootable. Ensure you have relevant RAID / storage drivers installed.
I gave up on hardware RAID on my Asus too after trying for hours, then Googling it and coming across benchmarks/reviews showing it's terrible on consumer motherboards - worse than software RAID. Hardware RAID use to be good when CPUs were slow, but now CPUs are that fast (and that much processing power is required) that hardware RAID is a bottleneck unless it's a really expensive chipset for it (ie threadripper MBs)
not bootable. Ensure you have relevant RAID / storage drivers installed.
I was trying to do it for the boot drive. Since I only wanted to find out how fast it was with 2x M.2 SSDs I'm not sure why it didn't occur to me to do it for my second drive.
@GordonD: For boot drive it has to be hardware raid, I did eventually get it working but it was a process.
Once the RAID array is setup you need the drivers on a Windows install USB, then manually select them to load, or no drives show up as installable. Once installed the performance sucked and I reverted to software RAID anyway. It was an entry level consumer Asus board though (B550m)
Software RAID can be done via 2 means, either storage pools or mirroring. Mirroring is like RAID1. It slows down writes (it waits on the slowest drive), but mildly speeds up reads. It isn't really worth it except for data redundancy, I ended up turning it off.
Storage pools can not include your boot disk, but can be equivalent to RAID0, 1, 5 or 6. Minimum 2 drives PLUS boot disk for this. Didn't try this, gave up and switched to Linux for XFS (software RAID 5/6 equivalent).
Probably will need a bootable USB with operating system and raid software to configure and confirm. Been a while but we used to load off CD-Rom to setup servers before USB bootable became a thing, and before that floppies :)
Note this has a 5 year or 750TBW warranty according to the manufacturer's site. Samsung S9100 and Crucial T700/T705 only have 5-year or 600 TBW limited warranty.
Neither TBW limits would realistically be hit under normal usage, but the higher rating is neat as you'd expect it to last longer after the warranty period / have less errors long term.
Anyone know if this has DRAM?
equipped with up to 4 GB of independent DRAM cache from manufacturer's site
I assume 1GB per 1TB (ie 4GB is for 4TB model)
Edit: https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/biwin-black-opal-x570-… yep 1GB according to here. LPDDR4
Don't buy any Gen 5 SSD unless you're really rich to waste your money
It's a bit overkill, but I bought one just for the hell of it.
Something like a 990 pro will almost compete on IOPS (so real world performance), but it's ~$155 on sale anyway these days. If it was still ~$125 on sales it would be a no brainer over PCI5.0.
For comparison, it's rated ~1.5M IOPS, PCI5.0 drives are usually 2M+. In reality the 990 Pro does ~1.2M and this does ~1.5-1.6M IOPS, so it's only mildly faster for realistic use cases.
Naming is quite suss. Why did they have to use the X570 number in its drive?