We'll have to see how the price ends up being on these but historically I've never found the price different between these types of drives and things like the HP EX920 or other various drives based on the same controller or other similar controllers. It's probably going to be pretty easy to pick up a drive with 3k+ read and 2k+ write for a slight premium over this which makes it a bad deal overall.
You probably will be able to do so; but the intended market for these drives is people/oems who will chose a sata drive if it's a few dollars cheaper. We may think they're making a poor judgement call in doing so; but that doesn't mean they don't exist. These drives should still be a solid upgrade from SATA even if $5-10 more would get you another large increment of performance.
Back in feb I purchased a 500gb M2 NVME and it was cheaper t han almost all the sata M2's. Maybe 4$ more than sata's cheapest offereing. Just gotta watch sales.
Ugh, that looks expensive... If you are in Poland, you can probably feel lucky because you should be able to order from some Teutonic barbarians. There, a budget-oriented 1 TB Nvme TLC gumstick goes for roughly EUR 130..150 (PLN 600..700; incl. 19% VAT).
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kpb321 - Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - link
We'll have to see how the price ends up being on these but historically I've never found the price different between these types of drives and things like the HP EX920 or other various drives based on the same controller or other similar controllers. It's probably going to be pretty easy to pick up a drive with 3k+ read and 2k+ write for a slight premium over this which makes it a bad deal overall.DanNeely - Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - link
You probably will be able to do so; but the intended market for these drives is people/oems who will chose a sata drive if it's a few dollars cheaper. We may think they're making a poor judgement call in doing so; but that doesn't mean they don't exist. These drives should still be a solid upgrade from SATA even if $5-10 more would get you another large increment of performance.PaulHoule - Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - link
DRAMless... It should better be cheap.loony - Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - link
With HMB, dramless really isn't that horrible in most usecases.HideOut - Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - link
Back in feb I purchased a 500gb M2 NVME and it was cheaper t han almost all the sata M2's. Maybe 4$ more than sata's cheapest offereing. Just gotta watch sales.levimar - Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - link
The prices are out in Poland already 1TB [ including VAT ] costs 192$512GB - 104$
240GB - 45$
source: https://www.x-kom.pl/g-5/c/1779-dyski-ssd.html?f%5...
kissiel - Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - link
Those prices include 23% VAT. Without VAT its $84 for 512GB.InTheMidstOfTheInBeforeCrowd - Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - link
Ugh, that looks expensive... If you are in Poland, you can probably feel lucky because you should be able to order from some Teutonic barbarians. There, a budget-oriented 1 TB Nvme TLC gumstick goes for roughly EUR 130..150 (PLN 600..700; incl. 19% VAT).Tomatotech - Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - link
Make sure you buy from GOODRAM, not their nefarious competitor BADRAM.Some may prefer to purchase from the Dark Knight supplier, GOTHRAM. However, I should inform you that CAKERAM is a lie.
fmcjw - Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - link
noram is goodramInTheMidstOfTheInBeforeCrowd - Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - link
But only if the noram dummy has RGBs. All of them. Yes, i know my place in the world...alexdi - Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - link
Nice drive, if only I had a way to use it. My board has a half-dozen SATA ports and only one NVMe. No spare PCIe for adapters.w1000i - Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - link
Can you review PS5 approach in there SSD implementation