Any idea what the low queue depth IOPS are going to be? That's what really matters on consumer level installations... It kind of bothers me to see companies shotgunning out hardware advertising the 'highest' numbers without showing what the real world numbers are. Not everyone uses these as database drives!
It's nice to see m.2 NVMe drives getting proper heatsinks. I assume this drive needs such a large to keep the driver chip cool. Current high-end drives have been on the threshold of needing heatsinks for a while now. To the point I think Samsung market some of their M.2 drives with sticks that acted as small heatsinks. I assume the only reason heatsinks are not more common is they, because even if they are not needed you know manufactures will add them for looks, is took keep the size down so they can fit in all the right length M.2 slots. These new drives can't fit on the back of motherboards or more commonly under 2 slot GPUs. Though I assume the new AMD boards that support PCIe gen 4 will take this into account. I hope
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halcyon - Monday, May 27, 2019 - link
Did they even announce the storage size options?ballsystemlord - Monday, May 27, 2019 - link
I'm really looking forward to your review of this drive!5080 - Monday, May 27, 2019 - link
That headsink wouldn't work with M.2 slots at the underside.Irata - Monday, May 27, 2019 - link
Nothing from Samsung on the horizon ?haukionkannel - Monday, May 27, 2019 - link
All in good time! Most likely Samsung version before the end of summer!MDD1963 - Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - link
Can't imagine Samsung will let this go unanswered...! :) I'm sure there is a 980 Pro somewhere!Algernop - Monday, May 27, 2019 - link
Any idea what the low queue depth IOPS are going to be? That's what really matters on consumer level installations...It kind of bothers me to see companies shotgunning out hardware advertising the 'highest' numbers without showing what the real world numbers are. Not everyone uses these as database drives!
Tryad - Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - link
This is what I want to know. Is there any improvement in THIS area? Thats what matters the most.Skeptical123 - Monday, May 27, 2019 - link
It's nice to see m.2 NVMe drives getting proper heatsinks. I assume this drive needs such a large to keep the driver chip cool. Current high-end drives have been on the threshold of needing heatsinks for a while now. To the point I think Samsung market some of their M.2 drives with sticks that acted as small heatsinks. I assume the only reason heatsinks are not more common is they, because even if they are not needed you know manufactures will add them for looks, is took keep the size down so they can fit in all the right length M.2 slots. These new drives can't fit on the back of motherboards or more commonly under 2 slot GPUs. Though I assume the new AMD boards that support PCIe gen 4 will take this into account. I hope