2.5" SSD for gaming?

[SomeFknGuy]

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 + firmware isn't really optimized it.
- Write performance is very good.
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Samsung 870Evo 4TB (SATA)
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Intel 905P (PCIe 3.0 x 4)
- Results as expected given its Gen 3 device.
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those numbers really make me want to move the card to a 4.0 lane and really get the performance out of it