970 PRO

Samsung 970 Pro, this one has DRAM cache, DRAM cache is useful when you are transferring huge file or render something everyday

Yeah, as in the prev. Z170 postings I have Samsung 970 PRO 1TB, which is the last MLC of M.2(lol super high resell value $$$) and runs at PCIe 3.0 x4 speed. And I have THREE of them. in Z170 they were all connected to the chipset, and I ran it in RAID 0 which all bottlenecks at... 3.0 x4. So yeah, s

🤦... Tell me you don't know SSD's without telling me... 🙄 Consumer SLC SSD's literally DO NOT EXIST, and haven't for around a DECADE AND A HALF!!! (Since Samsung's 470 Series SATA SSD's from literally 2010!!!...) And even consumer MLC SSD's haven't existed for nearly a decade now too! (The Samsung 9

Yeah, that's what I mean by "Longevity?". I mirror my internal system disk to usb as backup. Occasionally I boot to them to make sure my mirror script is still working but usually don't run from them for very long. Probably if I was going to run them for long, I'd mirror to a second one in preparati

I mean, let's take a simple example. The latest and greatest Samsung 9100 Pro 1 TB has TBW of 600, while the 970 Pro 1 TB has TBW of 1200. The sustained write speed for the 9100 Pro is 1.8 GB/s while the 970 Pro will maintain its rated write speed of 2.7 GB/s indefinitely. The max random speed of th

I'm not citing some sort of obscure study, the easiest way to check this is to the spec sheet for the Samsung 970 Pro and compare it to the 980 and 990 Pro. The switch from Planar to 3D nand in manufacturing basically brought TLC back to being viable again. A few years into it TLC was the essentiall