I was sure I seen better on lazada Singapore with it's birthday discounts on 3.3 but I forgot to note it down, but today they are having a final closing up birthday sale and the price for a 2TB transcend 220s is $151 SGD which is under $115 USD, it comes with much higher TBW at 4400 and similar performance as far as I can tell

Quote from: Neenyah on March 17, 2023, 23:53:24Oh yeah? Is 99% of your regular usage going to be 100x faster now? And are you going to be 100x more faster and 100x more productive in your workflow because of that?

Are you going to render videos or animations in Premiere Pro and After Effects 100 times faster than you did back in 2019-2020? Is working on a 50+ layer 10+ PSB large-sized print file in Photoshop (that itself swaps like crazy to SSD no matter or the amount of your RAM) going to be 100 times faster?

Will you be able to run several VMs at once with 100x better performance? A dead end indeed. And here I am, snatching 2x 1TB and 2x 2 TB of this "obsolete junk"...

Mixed in a bunch of people, horses ...

VM machines are as sensitive as possible just to the speed of RAM in atomic operations, and in the same way to 4k IOPs for SSDs.

The speed of pci-e 5.0 is 100 times faster only within the SLC cache. Outside of it, these shames do not even reach the level of pci-e 3.0 х4

In practice, there will be practically no difference in response between 970 and the latest pci-e 5.0 for the owner - why pay 2 times more?

In general, it's ridiculous for me to read about "outdated" pci-e 3.0 x4 drives - the majority of the world's population is just crawling from SATA SSDs or continues to sit on them. And they will practically not notice the difference in real use.

Quote from: NikoB on March 17, 2023, 19:45:43The linear speed of the pci-e 5.0 SSD is already 100 times faster than the read/write speed in 4k blocks. This is a dead end.

Oh yeah? Is 99% of your regular usage going to be 100x faster now? And are you going to be 100x more faster and 100x more productive in your workflow because of that?

Are you going to render videos or animations in Premiere Pro and After Effects 100 times faster than you did back in 2019-2020? Is working on a 50+ layer 10+ PSB large-sized print file in Photoshop (that itself swaps like crazy to SSD no matter or the amount of your RAM) going to be 100 times faster?

Will you be able to run several VMs at once with 100x better performance? A dead end indeed. And here I am, snatching 2x 1TB and 2x 2 TB of this "obsolete junk"...

Yes, of course, but if used in an old desktop PC or laptop that someone just gave away to their elders to keep in touch via Skype? A priceless upgrade! 

The linear speed of the pci-e 5.0 SSD is already 100 times faster than the read/write speed in 4k blocks. This is a dead end.

Quote from: Codrut Nistor on March 17, 2023, 09:36:48@Neenyah, I guess you missed the comments we received in the last year on deals for PCIe 3.0 SSDs. For some people, a PCIe 3.0 SSD is in the same league with an IOMEGA Ditto drive from the 1990s. :)

Amazing! :D Yet I'm not surprised at all. People with reflexes of sloths suddenly feel the difference between each 1 MB of Random 4K speed difference.
 

@Neenyah, I guess you missed the comments we received in the last year on deals for PCIe 3.0 SSDs. For some people, a PCIe 3.0 SSD is in the same league with an IOMEGA Ditto drive from the 1990s. :)

QuoteWhile considered an outdated piece of tech that is no longer relevant in 2023 by many consumers...

Lol.