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  • DanNeely - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

    Those performance numbers are modest enough I'm surprised they didn't go PCIe x2 for lower cost/power.
  • kpb321 - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

    Offhand I'd guess that they use the Host Memory Buffer feature like a lot of low end NVMe drives and so the extra PCIe bandwidth is helpful for accessing the system memory that it is using instead of having memory on the drive.
  • Grayswean - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

    x2 would be fine on PCIe 3.0, but would limit speed on older PCIe 2.0 machines, were x4 would not.
  • Samus - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

    What platforms after Haswell have been PCIe 2.0?
  • iranterres - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

    You cannot say a product is "entry level" without its MSRP. Damn click catching articles.
  • goatfajitas - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

    Exactly... When talking about an "entry level" product the price should be mandatory. Assuming these are priced a good deal less than say Samsung 970 EVO plus, they will do great for any normal user.
  • ballsystemlord - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

    So, if it's not priced at the entry level then you would say it's an entry level performer with mid tier pricing? Or would you say it's a mid tier product and we all suffer with the confusion?
    I'm of the opinion that AT made the right call here. It's an entry level performer.
  • shabby - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

    No 64gb drive?
  • DanNeely - Thursday, October 3, 2019 - link

    modern flash dies are too small. Lack of parallelism kills performance. You can see that with the 128's perf being well below the 256 and larger. Higher performing families increasingly don't include 128 either for that reason.
  • curry629 - Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - link

    Two controllers? SM2263XT and PS5013? If I want a MP33 with PS5013 controller, How can I mare sure?

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