Recent content by Chris_Ramseyer

The motherboard's heat spreader is fine for normal use with the 10GB/s, 12GB/s, and new 14GB/s drives. Some motherboards have better heatsinks and heat spreaders than others. One of my favorites right now is the Gigabyte Aorus Master. I also love the Asrock Gen5 boards. Some ship with a really...

What are you guys talking about? Phison has shipped 8TB M.2 SSDs for close to 4 years now. Sabrent has a few different models and the last time I looked they were less than a grand each for Gen4 TLC.

Full disclosure, I work for a rival SSD company but this post is from a personal perspective. I lost a 4TB from this series around 2 years ago full of data. Only some of the data was backed up. The drive was in a notebook but as a secondary drive. I managed to get the drive to work again but...

It does not go over the PIC-SIG m.2 power limits. The limit is 11.55w with a bit more for bursts.

I hate to be that guy, but Gen5 AIC adapters are rare and also expensive. The Gen3/4 adapters even have issues with some Gen4 SSDs. It will be worse with Gen5. https://www.serialcables.com/product/pcie-gen5-x4-to-u-2-vertical-adapter/

The drives run fine with a heatsink. Users should have some case airflow already. It doesn't take a lot of flow to cool a heatsink on a 10w SSD with an aluminum heatsink on it. I don't see anyone saying, "My 4090 throttles when I play games with a case built like an oven that doesn't have fans."...

How is this even still making new news? Corsair released a firmware update for its drives. The others will release an update that is paired with another update very soon. Every E26 SSD was advertised to use a heatsink. The "bare drives" are sold to use with motherboard's heatsinks so you are...

Try a different SSD.

A few companies will have Gen4 (Phison E18) for sale soon with SLC in 160, 320, 640, 1280, 2560GB sizes. 42 DWPD and around 6GB/s sustained write speeds. It does matter now that games have moved from DRAM to the SSD streaming data. Before too long people will start complaining about next...

I have all of them other than the 3.2TB 5800 and 5801. I never knew they released those. For most of the Optane life-cycle I was a reviewer at Tom's Hardware and TweakTown so Intel sent them direct. For the later ones I just bought them for work.

I haven't seen that one. I'll have to order one this week for "testing purposes". BTW, it costs $6,400 so it's not like most people will actually buy one for a consumer system...

They go to 1.5TB.

The high pitch fan was changed a few weeks after launch to an optimized version with 50% less fan speed, 3-pin connector, and the same air flow. Very few of the old version were actually shipped outside of Japan. The CDM RRQD1 of 106 is still on an early drive that has not been fully...

This design is notebook ready. That doesn't mean a partner won't design it with a massive heatsink but it is not a requirement. Also remember, SSD temp also has to do with what you do with the drive. With a workstation workload, you can thermal throttle a Gen3 SSD. If you wanted that workload...

The Gen5 drive uses the TSMC 7nm process so heat is not an issue. As for the E26 heat, we will have an announcement soon that does amazing things. Stay tuned!!