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nOOky

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Yea so what. If an NVME SSD is going to run at its fastest rated speeds and needs cooling, I'd buy it if it cheap enough. Even if it doesn't feel faster in daily use but is twice as fast benchmarked, add RGB and I'm in
 

BFG10K

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Trigger warning...
Comedy gold!

At these angles it looks like an extending brace to prop up heavy objects.

 

In2Photos

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Der8auer reviews the Corsair MP700 Elite Gen 5 drive with the new Phison controller. The drive was able to maintain full read/write speeds over a 10 minute test using the included heat sink. It still throttles without the heat sink,. "Gen 5 drives are finally usable" he says, but notes that it probably makes no difference for certain use cases, like gaming.

 
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biostud

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Der8auer reviews the Corsair MP700 Elite Gen 5 drive with the new Phison controller. The drive was able to maintain full read/write speeds over a 10 minute test using the included heat sink. It still throttles without the heat sink,. "Gen 5 drives are finally usable" he says, but notes that it probably makes no difference for certain use cases, like gaming.

Now they just need a competitive price...
 
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CakeMonster

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I've completely tuned out of the Gen5 SSD's, but I'm happy if there's cool running drives finally out. Now they need to be available in 4TB and 8TB to be interesting though.

When Gen5 was about to launch I had saved up and was ready to make the move, but the heat, price, and availability turned me completely off and I got an SN850X instead. Given the snail's pace this is going at I suspect there will be nothing to tempt me for a long time, but I guess I'll keep an eye out on the larger capacities and the random performance.
 

biostud

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I've completely tuned out of the Gen5 SSD's, but I'm happy if there's cool running drives finally out. Now they need to be available in 4TB and 8TB to be interesting though.

When Gen5 was about to launch I had saved up and was ready to make the move, but the heat, price, and availability turned me completely off and I got an SN850X instead. Given the snail's pace this is going at I suspect there will be nothing to tempt me for a long time, but I guess I'll keep an eye out on the larger capacities and the random performance.
Yeah, if I'm ever getting one it will be when I upgrade to zen6 and hopefully the premium will not be more than 20% over a gen 4 drive.
 

misuspita

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I don't understand why there is a cap on M2 drives capacity, no matter the Gen. I bought a 4TB gen3 3 years ago for around 220euro and was expecting by this time I could get a 8TB for the same... Fat chance, there are almost no 8TB drives...
 
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Fat chance, there are almost no 8TB drives...
High density NAND needs to get cheaper. They can use these chips in enterprise drives of 15 to 30 TB instead and make way more money. Also, if the 8TB gets cheaper, everyone will buy that and then they would have to reduce prices on the lower capacities even more which is most likely not what they want.
 

biostud

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I don't understand why there is a cap on M2 drives capacity, no matter the Gen. I bought a 4TB gen3 3 years ago for around 220euro and was expecting by this time I could get a 8TB for the same... Fat chance, there are almost no 8TB drives...
Yeah, the reason why I went X670E over B650E was to have enough M.2 slots.

1x 5.0 and 3x 4.0 + 1x 3.0 (2 lane) should be enough even if they all are filled with 4TB.

Currently rocking 1TB 4.0 +2TB sata
 

DaaQ

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Comedy gold!

At these angles it looks like an extending brace to prop up heavy objects.

This is on Newegg or was in the last couple days.
Corsair has a waterblocked one.
Crucial has some 14-15k speed ones.

SS, WD, Crucial, and I think a couple others have 8TB ones, in stock or not is something else.

I opted for the WD SN850X 4TB from amazon for 259, same price at Newegg but overall was cheaper due to shipping, and faster shipping also.
 

Soulkeeper

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I've been running two KC3000 drives in raid0 for awhile.
They don't offer firmware updates for their bug unless you use the windows .exe. I have not had a windows install in over 20 years.
So I went ahead and purchased two T705 Gen5 drives to replace them, after getting email confirmation that Crucial still provides a method to upgrade firmware for non windows users.
The 11.5Watt power usage is high, 12nm for the controller seems to be the culprit.
Wish me luck, hopefully my motherboard's heatsink will keep them cool, also i'll be running them at pcie 4.0 speed, so that should help.
 
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DaaQ

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I've been running two KC3000 drives in raid0 for awhile.
They don't offer firmware updates for their bug unless you use the windows .exe. I have not had a windows install in over 20 years.
So I went ahead and purchased two T705 Gen5 drives to replace them, after getting email confirmation that Crucial still provides a method to upgrade firmware for non windows users.
The 11.5Watt power usage is high, 12nm for the controller seems to be the culprit.
Wish me luck, hopefully my motherboard's heatsink will keep them cool, also i'll be running them at pcie 4.0 speed, so that should help.
They have the 14k speeds, lmk how RAID0 goes, I really wanted an 8TB but costs were not effective, but my mobo can RAID0 m.2.
 
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