At these prices, it better has 30% increase in real life performance or else.. no thanks. Yes, literally 30%, cus look at the prices. It is more than 30% expensive, lol... compared to many other similar in speed drives. So yeah... idk when we will ever consider gen 5 drives mainstream (and worth buying). SSD prices are going up as we speak, so if anything.. people would focus even more on Gen 3 and 4. Can you imagine if this super expensive drive goes up in price even more? RIP.
The review is right, there are other drives, much cheaper and similar in performance. Not to mention, as i said.. the performance doesnt seem to be all that much better, even if these drives were CHEAPER than Gen 4. I would probably still skip them, cus of the whole heat and heatsink issues. Even if some of them are finally okay-ish when it comes to temps. Yes, i would skip a Gen 5 drive even if it was cheaper, you heard me right, and yes.. my MOBO has a slot for it.
lol, that heatsink is farcical. I sure hope that PCIe 4.0 drives stick around for a long time, because 5.0 looks more and more like a bad joke. A near-unanimous majority of the consumer market won't even notice a speed increase; that is the reward for strapping this grotesque monstrosity onto your motherboard. Imagine slotting two or three drives, lmao.
Haha yeah, imagine now... 4. I got 4 SSDS already in my motherboard. I CANT imagine all of them having this giant thing on lol. Then there's the CPU cooler too. The motherboard would scream, if it could that is lol.
