We have tested both the original version of this drive, which had a heatsink and 96-layer flash, as well as the updated Gaming version which has a heatsink and 176-layer flash. Inland also has updated this model with that flash and now offers a 4TB capacity option, sans heatsink for all capacities. We do recommend a heatsink for heavier workloads, which can be added yourself if you don’t fancy the Gaming model of Inland’s line or need a 4TB option.

The T700 is for gamers, creatives, and professionals seeking the ultimate in solid-state drive performance that today only a Gen 5 SSD offers. But unless your desktop is a recent, high-performance model that supports this standard, being able to run a PCI Express 5.0 SSD at peak speeds requires a considerable additional investment. You must buy a recent desktop that supports SSDs built on the PCIe 5.0 standard, upgrade an existing recent rig, or build one from scratch. By making such an investment and having the T700 serve as its brains, though, you're future-proofing your entire setup. The combination of the Phison E18 controller and 176-layer TLC flash from Micron is a match made in heaven: unrivaled peak performance and, with the right cache design as on the Gaming model, strong sustained performance. That is ideal for workstation tasks, and Inland’s drives are cheaper than competitor offerings while maintaining a decent warranty. This is a barebones drive but will get the job done. The first attempt was a new form factor called mini-SATA, or mSATA. The boiled-down essence of an SSD with the shell removed, an mSATA drive is a bare, rectangular circuit board. (Most mSATA drives relevant to upgraders measure about 1 by 2 inches.) mSATA drives fit into a special slot in a laptop's logic board or on a PC motherboard. As the name suggests, the slot is a conduit to the Serial ATA bus in the system. The interface on the drive end is an edge connector on the PCB, as opposed to the usual SATA cabling. The mSATA drive also draws all the power it needs through the slot. The Solidigm P41 Plus is the best budget DRAM-less M.2 NVMe SSD on the market. It’s particularly good at 2TB, rivaling the 670p, which is older but comparable. This is no surprise as Intel’s NAND and SSD division migrated to Solidigm after a sale of the company to SK hynix, so the P41 Plus is reminiscent of that excellent budget drive. We would give the edge to the P41 Plus if you can make full use of the drive, which includes total Synergy 2.0 SSD driversupport. We’d also give the P41 Plus the edge over the P3 and P3 Plus if you’re shopping for your primary drive, as it has more consistent performance, even if maximum bandwidth is lower. A 128 GB kapacitású meghajtók az alacsony kapacitással rendelkező meghajtók közé tartoznak, mert a kevesebb memória modul miatt lassabb írási sebességre képesek. Amennyiben ekkora tárhelyre telepíti a Windows operációs rendszert és még néhány, kisebb méretű játékot, hamar elfogy a rendelkezésre álló gigabájtok száma. Amennyiben 3-4 ezer forinttal többet rá tud fordítani, már egy szinttel feljebb léphet a tárhely méretét tekintve.Crucial's T700 is the world's fastest SSD, taking the hands-down performance lead in every performance category. That groundbreaking speed comes courtesy of the drive's PCIe 5.0 x4 connection, which offers a pathway for up to twice the throughput of PCIe 4.0 SSDs, and the Phison E26 SSD controller paired with Micron's leading-edge 232-Layer 3D TLC flash. That potent common creates an SSD that's the fastest on the market for PC game loading times. GB-ról 250 GB-ra lépve általában párezer forintos különbségekkel találkozhat, és ezek a méretű meghajtók már nagyrészt megtalálhatóak a 30 000 forint alatti árkategóriában. 250 GB-ról 500 GB-ra ugorva a tárhely megduplázódásával már az árak is emelkednek, 30-50 000 forint között választhat fél terabájtos meghajtók közül. A legtöbb felhasználó számára az arany középutat az 500 GB-os modellek jelentik megfelelő teljesítményükkel, árazásukkal és az ezért kapott kapacitásukkal. SATA is slowest: SATA isn't as fast as an M.2 PCIe or a PCIe add-in card, but the majority of desktops and many laptops support 2.5-inch SATA drives, and many doing typical mainstream tasks users won't notice the difference between a good recent SATA drive and a faster PCIe model.

The ADATA XPG Spectrix S40 is an unapologetically bright RGB-lit PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2 SSD that blings up your PC. Its 4K read and write speeds should keep most gamers happy, too. The ADATA XPG Spectrix S40G carries some respectable wins out of its duel with other competing drives we've tested, and it looked great doing it. Of course, to show off the lighting, you will need to have an open-frame rig, or one with a see-through case. If you've already RGB'd your keyboard, mouse, video card, motherboard, case, and headphones, and are at a loss for what's left, the Spectrix S40G makes enough sense both in performance and looks to belong in any lighting-obsessed custom PC builder's arsenal. The PCIe 5.0 SSDs still have plenty to offer. The Crucial T700 is unquestionably the fastest consumer SSD in the world that you can actually buy, at least for now, delivering up to a blistering 12.4 GB/s of sequential throughput and 1.5 million random IOPS over the PCIe 5.0 interface. That's an amazing level of performance from an amazingly compact device. The Intel 670p is an older driver, but it is also a proven budget option that is often on steep sale. It’s best to grab it at 1TB or 2TB, as the 512GB model is slower with a smaller pSLC cache. The drive has DRAM, which is nice, and it has the fastest QLC on the market, even now. Performance outside of the cache does not suffer as much as a consequence. A 250-480 GB kapacitású meghajtók a nagyobb kapacitású meghajtókhoz képest még jóval olcsóbbak, viszont még mindig szűkösen lehet elférni rajtuk, amennyiben az operációs rendszer és a játékok mellett filmeket és zenéket is szeretne rajtuk tárolni.M.2 drive length isn't always an indicator of drive capacity, but therearelimits to NAND-chip density and how many memory modules engineers can stuff onto a PCB of a given size. As a result, most of the M.2 drives we've seen to date have topped out at 2TB, though you can find a few 4TB and 8TB models at lofty prices. The typical capacity waypoints are as follows: Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. Az M.2 típusú meghajtók többsége 80 mm széles és 22 mm mély, azonban léteznek ennél rövidebb vagy hosszabb változatok is. Az egyszerűbb beazonosíthatóság érdekében az elnevezés időnként tartalmazza a méreteket is. Az előzőekben ismertetett mérettel például M.2 Type-2280 néven is találkozhat.

has become a more attractive capacity point for SSDs as time has gone on. While there are now many options available, most come with compromises of one sort or another. You may have to settle for QLC, a weaker controller, no DRAM, unreliable hardware, etc. This is not always a big deal, especially if the drive is intended to be a secondary gaming drive. In the PlayStation 5, however, extra cooling is beneficial, so it’s convenient to have a heatsink option available. At the same time, laptops favor bare drives and especially single-sided drives, the latter of which have been very rare with TLC until recently. That's not a bad thing. Especially in the case of laptops, an older machine might support only M.2 SATA-bus SSDs, and that will be the boundary of your upgrade path...end of story. As a result, the only reasons you'd upgrade the drive, in that situation, would be to get more capacity, or if the old one failed.Yes, faster drives will be released to the market near the end of the year, but for now, the T700's 12.4 / 11.8 GB/s of throughput leads the market, not to mention the beastly up to 1.5 million random read/write IOPS that remains uncontested by any SSD on the market. The Crucial T700 can take a beating, too: The T700 doesn't lose as much steam as other drives during heavy sustained workloads, making it a suitable drive for even the heaviest of workloads, like workstation-class video editing. A legnagyobb kapacitással rendelkező M.2 meghajtók 4 terabájtnyi adat tárolására alkalmasak. Ennél nagyobb tárhelyigény esetén használhat akár egyszerre több SSD meghajtót is, vagy választhat másik kialakítású típust.

A 2-3 TB kapacitású meghajtók azoknak ajánlottak, akik nagyméretű fájlokkal dolgoznak vagy sok játékot, professzionális felhasználásra szánt programot futtatnak a gépükön és szeretnék ezeket a nagy kapacitás mellett gyorsan elérni. Az otthoni felhasználók számára szánt SSD-k kapacitása 120 GB-tól egészen 2 TB-ig terjed. Habár a tárhely kis mennyiségéből adódóan a 120 GB-os típusok a legolcsóbbak, ekkora kapacitás gyorsan szűkössé válhat, amikor már operációs rendszert és további programokat is szeretne rá telepíteni. Arról nem is beszélve, hogy egy adott SSD termékcsalád eltérő kapacitású modelljei közül mindig a legkisebb tárhelyű változat fog a legalacsonyabb írási- és olvasási sebességgel rendelkezni.Welcome to the cutting edge! You're shopping for a kind of drive that many folks don't even realize exists. As a result, you need to pay attention to several factors that may not be documented very well while you shop. Let's recap.