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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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