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Review: Zotac SONIX 480GB PCIe nVME SSD
Join us as we test the new Zotac SONIX PCI-Express SSD today, an nVME PCIe SSD. Let me just quickly throw some numbers at you that will get a smile on your face, so how does 2,600 MB/s maximum read and 1,300 MB/s write performance sound?
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#5249629 Posted on: 03/24/2016 06:18 PM
Thank you for the review Hilbert!
Looks like the Samsung 950 Pro M.2/MVME is missing from the Sisoft Sandra Drive Index Write MB/s table.
Thank you for the review Hilbert!
Looks like the Samsung 950 Pro M.2/MVME is missing from the Sisoft Sandra Drive Index Write MB/s table.
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#5249640 Posted on: 03/24/2016 06:31 PM
Excellent review Hilbert as always it was a great read. As a true Storage speed enthusiast myself i still drooling over this nVME SSD performance.
Excellent review Hilbert as always it was a great read. As a true Storage speed enthusiast myself i still drooling over this nVME SSD performance.
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#5249688 Posted on: 03/24/2016 08:24 PM
Nice review and a great product but i'm worried about storage sizes of modern SSD's.
I was looking at my steam account and some other games that are over 50gigs in size now.
A drive of only 480gigs will only hold a few games these days and you will probably start running into problems and more errors once this drive is more than 75% filled.
Once these PCIe drives start hitting 8Tbs then hopefully games will still be 20-50gigs.
Since games seem to be growing in size still at a rather incredibly fast rate then SSD's need to catch up on size and stop trying to break speed records and increase density/size.
It won't be long at this rate before some modern DX12 games may reach the 100gigs mark
GTA V for example is already 64.4 GB on my system and that's with 0 expansions so far. If it does get some then it may be the first game for me to reach that 100gigs.
Nice review and a great product but i'm worried about storage sizes of modern SSD's.
I was looking at my steam account and some other games that are over 50gigs in size now.
A drive of only 480gigs will only hold a few games these days and you will probably start running into problems and more errors once this drive is more than 75% filled.
Once these PCIe drives start hitting 8Tbs then hopefully games will still be 20-50gigs.
Since games seem to be growing in size still at a rather incredibly fast rate then SSD's need to catch up on size and stop trying to break speed records and increase density/size.
It won't be long at this rate before some modern DX12 games may reach the 100gigs mark
GTA V for example is already 64.4 GB on my system and that's with 0 expansions so far. If it does get some then it may be the first game for me to reach that 100gigs.
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#5249794 Posted on: 03/25/2016 02:44 AM
I had a 372GB PCI-e SSD, but had to remove it when I went from a r9 295x2 to my 980ti sli setup. It was a real shame. Load times were basically non-existent.
I had a 372GB PCI-e SSD, but had to remove it when I went from a r9 295x2 to my 980ti sli setup. It was a real shame. Load times were basically non-existent.
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My 256GB 950 PRO is killing it!! Love it!