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For PC. I have went SSD many years ago starting with a Intel SSD 320 160gb model. The largest HDD for client was 320GB Seagate. For NAS, I still go SATA HDD. The price of large SATA SSD isn't particular compelling. SATA SSD since 2013... Intel 320 160GB Intel DCS 3500 240GB Samsung 850 Pro...

I believe they did restock, so it’s worth the waitlist.

I finally replaced all my 5 year old Samsung 960 Pro / 970 Evo SSD with 2.5 inch SSD's and ran some testing with crystal disk mark on the new drives. Micron 7400 Pro 7.68TB (PCIe 4.0 x 4) - Q1T1 Read performance isn't particularly impressive. But this is not surprise as the controller +...

b650 platform is 1 asmedia promontory 21 chip hanging off a Zen4 CPU. a620 platform is part of a asmedia promontory 21 chip hanging off a Zen4 CPU x670 platform is 1 asmedia promontory 21 chip hanging off a Zen4 CPU + a second promontory 21 daisy chianed off the first one.

Might be worth checking if PCIe 2.0 x 4 link rate is expected. I guess this is a x99 board?

I wonder will there be a new chipsets for AM5? The x670 chipset feels like its is hacked together from 2 low end asmedia Promentory 21 chipsets. The Intel z690/z790 seems so much better.

wikichip has some details on AM4 and AM5 Sockets a packages. AM5 uses the same coolers and mounting kits as AM4, therefore so the package + socket thickness would be similar.

How about 7.68TB for US$ 315 (just google a 10% off curcial.com coupon) and + U2 to PCEi adapter ($8.99 on amazon) ? https://www.crucial.com/ssd/7400_pro/mtfdkcb7t6tdz-2az18abyyr

I suspect a broadcom P411W-32P https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/BC00-0443EN with some type of adapter would make sense or just use u2/u3 drives.

2.5 inch SATA SSD should be more than suffice to replace a HDD unless your use case is continuous recording of surveillance video. However don‘t expect any improvements to them other than shift to QLC or PLC to lower cost. The market for 2.5 SATA is shrinking as notebooks shifted to m.2. Very...

I think they are preparing for the end of SAS and SATA interface.

The Gigabyte Aorus master PCIe slot layout is ever more odd than the Strix 670e-e which does x8,x4,x4 The x670e aorus master only does x16,x4,x2 (and the x2 is pcie 3.0!)

I suspect they needed to differentiate there line up drew somewhere to differentiate the Strix and Rampage. So many x670e boards have configurations that don’t make sense. (x1 and x2 PCIe slots) For x670e, the max PCIe slot configuration implemented by vendors is 3 slots with x8,x8,x4

One more thing, If SATA is important, most x670e boards with more than 4 SATA implement the additional SATA port using ASmedia ASM 1064 on PCIe 3.0 x 1 lane. Expect only up to 450 MBps transfer instead of 600 MBps transfer in those ports.

670e chipset boards are a pain to choose as the chipset forces may compromises compared to z690/z790.., the 1st one is the PCIe x 4 downlink from the chipset. They will surely change it to Gen 5 there next AM5 Chipset. The MSI carbon WiFi also meets your requirements. It also has an additional...