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In Reply to: RE: New SSDs ligtning FAST.... posted by kh6idf on January 09, 2025 at 15:15:14
Now that's FAST! Is your primary NVMe on an internal slot inside your PC? I think my speed "bottleneck" is from the USB-C/USB 4.0 interface. The NVMe storage itself is capable of 7300 MB/s. Says so on the box ;-)What is the capacity of your T7? The interesting thing about solid-state storage, depending on the design, is the speed increases as capacity goes up once you get beyond a certain hump in capacity. For example, the 512GB and 1TB Mac Mini storage is noticeably faster than the 256GB found in their entry models. I don't recall why but it might have to do with the number of banks that the controller can read/write to in parallel - or something like that. I believe this holds true for SSD in general, not just in the Mac.
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Like kh6idf, I'd added a Samsung 2TB 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 for a new workstation for my wife. It actually had a 1TB M.2 2280 drive and an extra M2 slot and added the 2TB drive for Adobe projects and cache. It's quick.
Anyway, half as fast over USB with the M2 drive is still a lot faster than a SATA drive even in the motherboard. I just looked on my system and an SATA SSD drive only gets 540 MB/s. I thought the M2 drive that I stuck for my son's PC was only about 1,300. They've gotten a lot faster.
I've got one of those Samsung 2TB USB drives for travel for music files and video stuff. It's slow if you're copying a lot. But, for reading, it's fine, it's fast enough for streaming.
-Rod
As with cars, there are multiple measures for fast. The sequential transfer rate you cite is analogous to top speed. Not something used everyday.What I like about any SSD is its 0-60, aka access time .
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Not as much these days unless you're dealing with huge files or large backups. I DID notice the backup speed difference over USB 3.1 vs USB 4.
Yes, the 990 Pro sits in a slot on the motherboard. The motherboard even has a heat sink for it.My T7 (2 TB) is an external USB, connected to a USB 3.2 jack. The USB interface definitely slows it down compared to the native NVMe, but USB 4 is starting to appear, and it is something like 40 Gb/s. My motherboard doesn't have USB 4, just USB 3.2 (and USB 2.0).
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That's pretty slick. You're probably going directly into an NVMe slot vs NVMe memory on a PCIe slot.I haven't 'built' a PC in a few decades. It might be a fun project but I'm not sure what I would do with it afterwards ;-)
When I was working I managed to repurpose a couple older servers to the SETI project and then Folding@home - donating distributed computing resources via the internet. The electric bill was on the company dime. I even let them have a few cycles from my Mac but that was notoriously slow compared to some of the built up PCs with NVIDA GPU.
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Yes, M.2 slot. The motherboard (see link below)has 3 of them, one PCIe 5 and two PCIe 4. I'm using the PCIe 5 slot but the 990 Pro is PCIe 4.Built a new PC after using the old one for about 15 years since it became obsolete if I wanted to move to Windows 11. The new machine has an AMD Ryzen 7 9700 and 32GB of 6000 MHz RAM. With Windows 11 loaded it's a real pleasure to use.
Got all the parts at my local Best Buy except for the power supply. I wanted the Seasonic brand so ordered from Newegg (850W for some excess capacity).
The other nice thing is the noise level, or lack of it. Sitting 2 feet away it's nearly dead quiet.
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That's a nice build. I've done too many builds and sometimes it seems like it costs more than just buying one. B&H had a deal last year for a Lenovo Legion Tower 7i, Intel i9, 32GB of 5600Mhz, 1TB M.2 and GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) and I added a 2TB M.2 and 128GB of RAM. It's fast and silent.
The only problem that I had was figuring out how to turn off the LED colors and light show on all the front 3 fans.
Why do people like that?
-Rod
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