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  • mark625 - Thursday, September 24, 2020 - link

    Is it just me, or is the color you chose for the temperature line in the graphs on the last page actually "transparent"? All I can see is the throughput line (in blue) and the starting and ending temperatures (in red). There is no graph line for temperature.
  • ganeshts - Thursday, September 24, 2020 - link

    The lead-up text to the graph explicitly states: " the temperature of the drive was also recorded at the beginning and end of the processing. In earlier reviews, we used to track the temperature all through. However, we have observed that SMART read-outs for the temperature in NVMe SSDs using USB 3.2 Gen 2 bridge chips end up negatively affecting the actual transfer rates. To avoid this problem, we have restricted ourselves to recording the temperature at either end of the actual workloads set."

    Additionally, temperatures are not available for drives that do not support the read-out (example: HP P500)
  • Alistair - Thursday, September 24, 2020 - link

    I've never had an external drive as bad as the Adata SC680. Stay away. Unless you like 20MB/s after it quickly uses its cache and overheats. Faster to do a backup with a spinning drive. Go higher end for sure. The SE800 or HP etc.
  • AMDSuperFan - Thursday, September 24, 2020 - link

    I would like to see them compared to PCIE 4.0 drives. This article is incomplete. Also please put time in seconds. I would like to know how many seconds boot takes, not a random number that means very little.
  • ganeshts - Thursday, September 24, 2020 - link

    Please tell me which PCIe 4.0 drive is available as an external SSD.

    The time in seconds for boot will also have the same relative difference as the MBps rating. Higher the 'random' number, the faster would be the boot time on an ideal system where the *storage* is the bottleneck. PCMark 10 actually replays the storage trace for the process, rather than doing the actual booting. So, any 'time' obtained from a trace replay *may* not correspond to the *actual* boot time on a system.
  • AMDSuperFan - Thursday, September 24, 2020 - link

    Correct. However I would like to know the specifics. If I buy this fast drive. How fast will it go? Knowing the speed in seconds is 0-60. Knowing the MBps rating is knowing the top speed. They don't always mean the same thing. Do I upgrade to one of these from my PCIE4 drive in my AMD computer?
  • Billy Tallis - Thursday, September 24, 2020 - link

    "Do I upgrade to one of these from my PCIE4 drive in my AMD computer?"

    Please stop with the stupid trolling comments.
  • Luminar - Friday, September 25, 2020 - link

    Ouch
  • Shmee - Friday, September 25, 2020 - link

    Interesting, it still seems to me it makes more sense to get a good m.2 or 2.5in drive with an enclosure. Could be faster AND cheaper.
  • jabber - Friday, September 25, 2020 - link

    Would be handy to see how a 'Amazon homebrew special' would hold up price and performance wise in comparison. it's the route i would take. Just more flexible.

    However, in any real world scenario these things will all crawl to KBps speeds as soon as they hit microfiles which are the Achilles heel of modern data systems. We need better file systems to compensate.
  • Dug - Friday, September 25, 2020 - link

    The amount of thought that went into thermals is unbelievable. Especially when you take into account what was needed to create the internals.
    You can get a 1000hp motor but not the tranny or suspension to handle it.
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