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Gen 5 drives are so lame lol
Why? Because they all run so hot they require big heat spreaders?
Also in real world situations you are very unlikely to notice performance differences vs a Gen 4 drive.
lol how I bought a t700 and love it
Double the price of a good gen 4 drive, with little performance gain and the requirement of a hilariously big cooler.
It’s only $150 aud more than the 990 pro and my motherboards cooler keeps it under 65c so how is it hard to cool
I'm having a blast with them. You'll need some effort to take advantage of them, though. For example, standard C or C++ file IO lets the operating system do some buffering/caching in the background, which completely thrashes CPU and consequently also read performance. Do unbuffered reads, for which you'll unfortunately have to use native winapi because its not in the c standard, an you'll be able to fully utilize the SSD.