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PCI-E 4.0 SSD

Boil said:
I did not; these will be going on an ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Impact, the SO-DIMM.2 module they will occupy has built-in heat sinks...
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Excellent. Definitely a cool board and I love that option. I only asked because I get a lot of questions about that drive and the optional heatsink, which frankly I think is ludicrous. No Gen4 drives (yet) myself but I'm running the X570 Aorus Master with three NVMe drives so I'm always curious.
 
It seems to me that Sabrent, Gigabyte and Corsair all use the same OEM for their NVME Gen 4 drives. Can anyone comment on this?

Does anyone know how reliable these drives are? I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on a X570 board, however, if reliability isn't up to par, I'd rather go with something like a Samsung 960 or 970 Pro.

Thank you.
 
STEM said:
It seems to me that Sabrent, Gigabyte and Corsair all use the same OEM for their NVME Gen 4 drives. Can anyone comment on this?

Does anyone know how reliable these drives are? I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on a X570 board, however, if reliability isn't up to par, I'd rather go with something like a Samsung 960 or 970 Pro.

Thank you.
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Too soon to know about the reliability of these drives. They only just came out.
 
STEM said:
Does anyone know how reliable these drives are? I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on a X570 board, however, if reliability isn't up to par, I'd rather go with something like a Samsung 960 or 970 Pro.
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You can go with a PCIe 3.0 version from Inland (Microcenter, Amazon). No reason to spend up for a Samsung unless you know that you're going to be heavily and continually abusing the drives (and even then).
 
STEM said:
It seems to me that Sabrent, Gigabyte and Corsair all use the same OEM for their NVME Gen 4 drives. Can anyone comment on this?

Does anyone know how reliable these drives are? I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on a X570 board, however, if reliability isn't up to par, I'd rather go with something like a Samsung 960 or 970 Pro.

Thank you.
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They do. There's a bunch of these, which you can find on my spreadsheet. They tend to have a very high TBW, moreso than even MLC drives, so within the warranty period (usually five years) you will definitely be covered for writes. Outside of that period and amount of writes, it won't be as reliable as other drives in terms of writes. That sounds contradictory but it's true. Unless you mean something else by "reliability" which doesn't much make sense since pretty much every drive on the market uses ARM Cortex-R5 based microcontrollers with DDR3/DDR4 (same bandwidth) and similar NAND/flash.
 
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