https://amzn.to/47AJmOg its only gen 3 speeds but still something like this cost an arm and a leg when i bought one for my desktop. And apparently gen 3 is better for battery life anyway.
I thought about getting a 4 tb SN850x, I have one along with a 2 tb in my desktop, but 4 in a laptop is a lot to manage at least for me, also that would require a more sizable investment to back up the entire thing when it is full which is more difficult for physically smaller and more durable drives. I also opted out from going the full 64gb of memory as at that point that may impact battery life, nor do I really have a use for that much as I’d be working with raw image files and maybe some light gaming with emulators at the most
Does RAM quantity really impact power consumption in any meaningful way? I’m curious because that crossed my mind after I missed the crucial 32GB deal and opted instead for 64GB from GSkill. My SSD will be a Hynix P31 so I’ll save some battery life there at least
Yeah, I’m considering getting it for my desktop that only has 1 TB of storage. I already bought a 990 pro 2 TB for my framework
I have a theory about this, that we’re about to enter a new era of storage of RAM. Similarly to when we moved from HDD TO SSD. I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next year or two we have something new.
I don’t really think that’s coming up that soon the m.2 form factor still has room to grow. Most likely gen 5 will just become more affordable.
I got an Intel 2TB for $60, hold out a little longer.
It’s Gen3 and also a DRAM-less drive so will choke a bit with sustained writes. The 4TB Teamgroup MP34 is the same price and is IMO a better SSD.
For what it’s worth, I purchased one of these in October, along with some Crucial RAM for my laptop, and my laptop now cannot achieve S3 suspend. I believe the issue is this drive, but I am on a trip without a screw driver, so I can’t take it out and test.
Without reaching S3 suspend, my laptop goes from fully charged to dead in about 6 hours - I literally can’t suspend it over night. I’m running Ubuntu, but I’ve tried with several distros (booting from live USB), and so far none reach S3.
I should have access to a screw driver, and be able to test some time in the next two weeks. I’ll try to remember to update this when I do.
The drive has been great otherwise. I know people have commented about the lack of DRAM and potential performance hit, but performance has been great for me - I haven’t noticed any difference relative to my more expensive Samsung drives. I’m a photographer, and copy 10s of gigabytes to the drive at a time, and it’s handled that without issue.
EDIT:
I have confirmed the issue with this drive. My laptop cannot achieve s3idle with this drive in. It can with other drives, and can without any drive (booted from USB), but not with this drive. I’ve contacted Crucial support to see if it’s a known issue, or if there’s a problem with my drive. I’ll report back if I hear anything.