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WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe Solid State Drive: 1TB $78 + Free Shipping

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Model: WD Black 1TB SN850X NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive

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06-02-2023 at 02:26 PM.
06-02-2023 at 02:26 PM.
This product is rated 4.8 out of 5 with over 12,000 reviews
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Subberonis
06-02-2023 at 10:10 PM.
06-02-2023 at 10:10 PM.
How do these fair for a gaming laptop? I have a dell g15 5521 but ive never dealt with SSDs before.
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06-03-2023 at 09:25 AM.
06-03-2023 at 09:25 AM.
Quote from Subberonis :
How do these fair for a gaming laptop? I have a dell g15 5521 but ive never dealt with SSDs before.
The drive itself is very good, but the high temp from the gaming laptop (high powered CPU+Stressed GPU) will make the drive throttle its speed.

IMO the best nvme for laptop is Hynix P31 (good perf/watt), or Firecuda 530 (lower temp but similar performance), or maybe plug this SN850x externally with 40Gbps+ (TB3+/USB4) NVME enclosure with built-in fan to the laptop.
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aegrotatio
06-03-2023 at 09:56 PM.
06-03-2023 at 09:56 PM.
Can someone kindly explain to me why some PCIe M.2 1 TB drives are $80 and others are $40?
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DrFrito
06-03-2023 at 10:50 PM.

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06-03-2023 at 10:50 PM.
Quote from aegrotatio :
Can someone kindly explain to me why some PCIe M.2 1 TB drives are $80 and others are $40?
1. Some brands simply cost more.
2. There are Generations or Gen(s). Gen3, Gen4, Gen5. Mainly this is all about the speed, however, your equipment
plays a big part. Your system may only take Gen3 drives, for example. This doesn't mean you can't install a Gen4 or Gen5, only that
you will be capped at the Gen3 speed. They are all pretty fast, though, and you might not even be able to tell much difference in speeds.
3. In addition to Gen3 vs 4 or 5... There is one other main thing to check. Some drives have DRAM (really fast memory) on them that 'sits' in between
you and the actual storage area on the hard drive. If the drive doesn't have this DRAM, sometimes they are called DRAMless.
When you transfer data to a drive with DRAM, you are actually sending it to that fast memory which in turn sends it to the storage area of the hard drive. It's just a
faster way to do it. The DRAM acts as a buffer to keep things moving faster. If you were to purchase a DRAMless drive then there's a chance you might occasionally
send too much data to the drive which would slow it down for a second... like when you send a bunch of files at once.
Fancy games also benefit from the drives that do have the DRAM.


Honestly you might not even be able to tell any difference between the DRAM and DRAMless.

Personally, I have 4 drives in my computer. I need to replace the boot drive that has my windows install on it. I will be looking for a Gen4 with DRAM.
My other drives are only for storage so I would purchase the least expensive one I could find, that has good reviews and since it's only for storage, it wouldn't matter
if it had DRAM or not and wouldn't matter what gen it was either.

Hope this helps and also hopefully somebody else will chime in where I'm wrong. It was just trying to keep it basic...

Cheers

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06-03-2023 at 11:30 PM.
06-03-2023 at 11:30 PM.
Quote from aegrotatio :
Can someone kindly explain to me why some PCIe M.2 1 TB drives are $80 and others are $40?
Some are PCI4.0 and the others PCI3.0, and use cheaper/different chips on the SSDs.
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