Tag: pcie
Crucial’s T700 PCIe 5.0 SSD can throttle to HDD speeds without a cooler
ComputerBase’s recent tests of Crucial’s T700 and Corsair’s MP700 NVMe SSDs could further convince consumers that they should strongly consider paying extra for the heatsinks retailers offer with new drives. Their impressive read speeds, normally sitting in the neighborhood of 10GBps, completely evaporate if the SSDs get too hot.
Phison has a fix for its overheating PCIe 5.0 SSD controller
Pick up the super-quick 2TB Samsung 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD for £122
Samsung’s 980 Pro SSD remains one of the fastest PCIe 4.0 options on the market in terms of both raw numbers and real-world gaming performance, so it’s worth knowing that the capacious 2TB size is now available for £122 at TechNextDay when you use code TND-10, knocking £10 off its price to come well under the next-nearest retailer.
Grab this rapid 2TB Kingston Fury Renegade PCIe 4.0 SSD for $134.99
Kingston’s Fury Renegade SSD was the fastest one we’d tested in early 2022, although it was later surpassed by the marginally faster WD SN850x and Samsung 990 Pro. Regardless, it’s an extremely capable PCIe 4.0 SSD – and now it’s available for $134.99 for a 2TB model after a discount at B&H Photo Video in the US. To get this price, which represents an oustanding $45 discount, you just need to add the drive to your cart – easy enough, right?
The Crucial T700 shows the promise, and limits, of PCIe 5.0 SSDs
For hardware that’s all about searing speed, advances in SSD tech can be a Beckettian waiting game. Microsoft’s DirectStorage has only so far only found support in the ho-hum Forspoken, and PCIe 5.0 SSDs still aren’t widely available despite the first compatible CPUs and motherboards launching in 2021.
However, the latter are coming soon, and I’ve been testing out an engineering sample of the Crucial T700 to see how PCIe 5.0 – also known as PCIe Gen5 – drives could perform in an honest-to-goodness gaming PC. The short version: with maximum read and write speeds that tower over the current generation’s best SSDs, albeit with less impact on game load times than such explosive pace would suggest.
Want a PCIe 4.0 SSD for 10% off? This Ebay code has you sorted
A new deal, another pair of deals on NVMe SSD drives. This time, it’s the Solidigm P41 Plus which is the subject of our deals post, with a 1TB model available for £48 and a 2TB model available for £90 – some incredible prices for PCIe 4.0 SSDs capable of up to 4125MB/s reads. To get this price on these drives from Ebuyer, just use the code APRIL10 at the checkout at Ebay.
This 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD is just £95 at Amazon UK
We’ve covered surprisingly cheap NVMe SSDs on this deals patch before, but today we’ve hit a new high – or new low, depending on how you look at it. Right now you can pick up an Integral 2TB SSD for just £94.99, down from a regular price of £124, and best of all it’s a fast PCIe 4.0 SSD capable of 4850MB/s reads and 4400MB/s writes. Nice!
Pick up a titanic 4TB Crucial P3 Plus PCIe 4.0 SSD for $225
Want a big-ol’ SSD for your games, media and what-not? The Crucial P3 Plus is currently reduced at Best Buy, where the massive 4TB size is down to $225. That’s nearly $40 off its previous price and a great value for a drive of this spec.
For the record, the P3 Plus is a PCIe 4.0 SSD, with up to 5000MB/s reads and 4200MB/s writes. It uses QLC flash in a DRAM-less design, but with HMB technology – so it uses your computer’s RAM as its cache. That allows it to provide surprisingly excellent performance, although we’d still recommend a higher-end TLC drive with a DRAM cache for the most intensive workloads, like 4K video production. For gaming and regular use though, this is a great choice!