980 Pro

Yes, that can happen. Had a 980 Pro, that showed as healthy in CDI as well, but as it was benchmarking around 400MB/s read, 200MB/s write, it clearly had degraded, so I got it exchanged through the Samsung 5 year full warranty on SSDs.

Verify RAM pricing first, possibly actually buy modules to lock in whatever cost you're considering as "acceptable". DDR5 5600 SO-DIMMs, when I've looked, are far from being "discounted" when you don't already own them. In that situation - Not already owning RAM/being able to get it (actually) cheap

Yeah, as stated, Samsung OEM drives unfortunately dont work fully with Magician. This is a Lenovo drive, LEN(ovo) Part Number SSS0L25196, you can search for it. There's a few different part numbers on there. The actual drive is a PM9A1, pretty good one, here: https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/sa

External with a Gen4 SSD is the golden ticket. Gen5 and you lose the speed gains due to TB5 anyway. Best bet is something like a 980 pro from Samsung and an Acasis TB5 enclosure. You'll maximise the TB5 throughput this way without wasting money on a newer gen5 9100 pro ssd where you wouldn't realise

I got the 2TB memory card for $90 at the end of 2023 on a clearance deal at Target. And a 2TB Samsung 980 Pro nvme ssd for $70 from Amazon the same week. Considering how much prices have exploded, I consider these some of the best purchases I've ever made.

That guy's just twisting your leg. OEM Samsung drives do NOT work with Samsung magician either btw. So don't worry about it! It's legit. There's nothing you need in that app anyways. Only mainstream consumer drives you buy in shops like 990,980,960, 870 etc do. This is a OEM PM9A1 which is same as t

Quand je pense que j'ai eu un Samsung 980 Pro à 120€ il y a 2ans... Et que je le trouvais cher 😅

Ok if you want a high end samsung drive I would recommend the 980 pro or 990 pro you can get cheaper that will still work for you the 9100 pro is a gen 5 drive and the motherboard is gen 4 so it would work but you would be wasting money and gen 5 drives get very hot while gen 4 drives are cooler

Короче, если хочешь прям хорошо - Samsung 870 Evo, Kingston KC600 и WD Red SA500. Это по SATA. И Samsung 980 Pro/ 990Pro/ 9100 Pro/ PM9A1/PM9F1/PM9E1, Kingston KC3000/ Fury Renegade, в т.ч. на pci-e5/ WD850X, если хочешь прям хорошие из nvme. Но это дороговато немного, да. Есть ещё кстати Seagate Ir

Respectfully, in the real world he may only see 1-2% of a performance loss with the gpu with PCIE3. For storage SATA SSDs are arguably more than fast enough for the vast majority of games to where there is pretty much no difference between a NVME or SATA and more than fast enough for anything else o