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XPG GAMMIX S11 PCIe M.2 SSD Drives

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XPG GAMMIX S11 PCIe M.2 SSD Drives

MdotMaxson

309

Sep 22, 2018

Oh boy the opening catch line of the description. Do people really buy into that stuff. Like honestly, do you really think there is special code in there to specifically boost your games and rendering. I mean of course its within their duty to create the fastest drive they can and optimize it for different workloads. However, i highly doubt this drive is going to recognize that the data it’s chewing is part of a render process or a video game and suddenly work harder for you. Or else why not make it always work as hard as possible. Maybe I’m interpreting it wrong, and they just mean to advertise that because their drive is fast you will be able to do things like render faster and load games smoother compared to SATA or HDD. However to me it just sounds like it’s promising more than is logical. But... the real zinger is that it’s going to help you overclock. Someone pleas explain to me how this drive will ever have any impact on how you overclock your CPU or GPU. Please. Lets be honest, thos company realistically should just say “Hey buy our NVMe drive because you know you’d rather have this awesome shroud we designed for it than one of those boring Samsung 970 egos that might perform better accross the board, but who pays attention to the fractions of a second faster it might boot your web browser. Wouldn’t you rather this than a basic green circuit board with a sticker?
PS please don’t interpret this as me whining or actually being upset about the fact that companys think we are all stupid. its just I found that description so absurd I laughed and need to sanity check that everyone is laughing too. I mean the evo 970 is clearly the best drive you can buy... they don’t even embellish like this either.

MdotMaxson

309

Sep 22, 2018

MdotMaxsonEh my last tidbit is that don’t let companys fool you. There are tons of heatsinks out there and even watercooling solutions for your M.2 storage drives. The truth is that The NAND storage SSDs found on these devices are an exception to the common theory that heat destroys electronics. NAND optimally wants to write data around 50C. Cooling your drive and forcing it down towards room temperature will degrade the life of your SSD by up to 50%. So unless you wanna lose your data quicker than normal please don’t actively cool your SSDs

KTech

Sep 22, 2018

MdotMaxsonM.2 nvme drives are notorious for having cooling issues to the point of pretty heavy thermal throttling. Instead of solving the cooling issue, samsung has just put a profile in their new drives that just let them thermal throttle less harmfully.

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roarWolfy

144

Sep 23, 2018

MdotMaxsonNAND wants to be hot like you said.... I have heard of cases where 70C is still optimal. It is the controller that wants to be cold and the controller that will do the throttling. M.2 Drives will a cool tech are nightmares due to the want of these different temps on the same extremely small chip!

Dr_Rodney_McKay

139

Sep 23, 2018

roarWolfyExactly right, and Tom's Hardware specifically notes that the "heatsink" makes poor contact with the controller, not only failing to improve cooling but obstructing airflow directly to the controller. As a heatsink, it's literally worse than nothing.

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