GALAX HOF Pro PCIe 4.0 NVMe review
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nizzen
Same 4k random read @qd=1 performance as samsung Sm951 nvme released in 2015.
Looks like there is no need to upgrade for a bit higher seq read and write yet
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Mda400
tunejunky
another great review HH.
i feel like a Ferengi learning the rules of acquisition, cuz i'm a greedy lil' pup who likes shiny.;);)
Fox2232
Kool64
It looks pretty cool but given my primary M.2 slot is buried squarely under my video card I'd be hard pressed to wonder if they charged extra for the white PCB and "fancy" heat sink.
Reddoguk
There's chips on both sides? How do you cool the chips facing down to the mobo. I thought these m.2 had all the chips facing upwards. Could it throttle because of that fact.
anticupidon
Great to see improvement in NVMe area.
Slowly, all enterprise stuff eventually will reach to a better price point and better for everyone.
Still, there is room for improvement and what we are getting now, somewhere 3-4 years down the road will be less than the norm.
Fox2232
tunejunky
this is clearly not for everyone. but if you have a theme and an exposed M.2 slot this would be the icing on a tasty cake.
Truder
Technically, storage manufacturers make use of SI units correctly, 1GB meaning precisely 1 billion bytes or 1,000,000,000 and not the formatted usage we're accustomed to which if we were to use the binary prefix would be GiB or Gibibyte and thus 1,073,741,824 bytes. The truth is we don't actually use the units correctly in daily usage.
kakiharaFRS
HeavyHemi
I was surprised drives getting hot even regular ones. I just got a MX500 2TB Corsair. It hit about 53C while transferring large game files. I was seeing sustained transfer rats of 500MB/sec moving from one SSD to another. It's not in an enclosed space and idle temp is 21C.
Astyanax
Fender178
Yeah NVME drives can get very warm when used which can lead to the drive not performing to its fullest potential. I remember this one SSD that is a standard SATA that had RGB lighting which is nice and all but it was causing the drive to generate more heat than usual for a SATA SSD which caused the drive's performance to degrade so much that the entire system was in slow mode to the computer locking up.
This would be perfect for one of them white builds or black and white builds with either that limited edition ASUS Strix 2080 Ti card or the Galax HOF 2080 Ti that is white if aesthetics is something you care about.