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2TB - WD_BLACK AN1500 PCIe Gen 3 x8 NVMe SSD Add-In-Card - 6500MB/s, 3D TLC, 2GB Dram Cache - £199.99 @ Amazon
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PCIe Gen3 technology to provide access to incredible read/write speeds up to 6500/4100MB/s
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Customisable RGB lighting with 13 LED pattern effects programmable with our WD_BLACK Dashboard, or seamlessly integrate with motherboards from major brands (Windows only), Engineered to minimise thermal throttling with integrated heatsink technology
Up to 4TB capacity to store your games
Bootable and easy-to-install RAID0 solution using PCIe slot
Downloadable WD_BLACK Dashboard software to customise and control your gaming experience
Customisable RGB lighting with 13 LED pattern effects programmable with our WD_BLACK Dashboard, or seamlessly integrate with motherboards from major brands (Windows only), Engineered to minimise thermal throttling with integrated heatsink technology
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sorted byEach version has effectively doubled the bandwidth.
The thing that is less discussed is the number of lanes.
An M.2 slot will either do 2x or 4x.
Most today are 4x
So for an SSD going into the slot to get these kinds of speeds it will need to be pcie gen 4 4x
PCIe gen 3 8x would need the slot but would have equivalent bandwidth.
You may look into how your motherboard splits its lanes.
the GPU may have to run at 8x
Maybe a performance hit
There's pcie bifurcation that's also worth reading about where you can configure how lanes are split
PCIE gen 3
To give clarity, if you put this in a gen 4 4x slot, you will get gen 3 at 4x which is half the bandwidth.
Ok no problem, put it in the second 16x slot right? Nope, that will nearly always take bandwidth from the GPU (edited)
A PCIe x4 Lanes M.2. Expansion card is under £5 on eBay, fast if PCIe 4.
I ordered this.
ebay.co.uk/itm…762 (edited)
I do wonder if you took the cover off this thing would it be a blank board with a tiny NVME chip in the middle and a couple of equally tiny DRAM chips next to it. (edited)
No way I'd put this in a gaming PC, unless you like hogging some of PCIe the banwidth your GPU should be getting... (edited)