Silicon Motion's SM2508 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Controller is as Power Efficient as Promised

[Frank_100]

I use PCIe 4.0 as main drives and backup drive.
My biggest time sink is cloning system for back-up.
Because of throttling, the data transfer is only slightly better then SATA.
It usually takes about 2 hours for clonezilla to create and check a back-up.
It is worth doing, but I wish the hardware was faster.

 

[Chrispy_]

Finally! \o/

All Gen 5.0 SSDs so far have been stupid because they cannot be cooled without exceeding the M.2 dimensions specification.

Brute forcing the issue with a large heatsink and fan is a really terrible kludge that blocks CPU coolers, PCIe slots, and of course necessitates on of those whiny, tiny, sub-40mm fans that have pitiful throughput and even more pitiful lifespans. Boards that include a PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot so often also include integrated passive cooling that has to stripped off first just to install one of the hot-n-hungry PCIe 5.0 SSDs and if the piece you're stripping off to clearn room for your roasty-toasty PCIe 5.0 SSD's active cooling solution was also the same piece that cooled your PCIe 4.0 drive you also use - then tough luck. One of your drives must suffer and your fancy motherboard now looks like an ugly mess.

 

[TheLostSwede]

I use PCIe 4.0 as main drives and backup drive.
My biggest time sink is cloning system for back-up.
Because of throttling, the data transfer is only slightly better then SATA.
It usually takes about 2 hours for clonezilla to create and check a back-up.
It is worth doing, but I wish the hardware was faster.

I think you're confusing random file transfers with throttling, as random reads and writes aren't that much better on NVMe drives compared to the best SATA drives.
As long as you have heatsinks on your drives, they shouldn't throttle.

Finally! \o/

All Gen 5.0 SSDs so far have been stupid because they cannot be cooled without exceeding the M.2 dimensions specification.

Brute forcing the issue with a large heatsink and fan is a really terrible kludge that blocks CPU coolers, PCIe slots, and of course necessitates on of those whiny, tiny, sub-40mm fans that have pitiful throughput and even more pitiful lifespans. Boards that include a PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot so often also include integrated passive cooling that has to stripped off first just to install one of the hot-n-hungry PCIe 5.0 SSDs and if the piece you're stripping off to clearn room for your roasty-toasty PCIe 5.0 SSD's active cooling solution was also the same piece that cooled your PCIe 4.0 drive you also use - then tough luck. One of your drives must suffer and your fancy motherboard now looks like an ugly mess.

That's why you always buy SSDs without heatsinks. In fact, the PCIe 5.0 slot heatsinks on the motherboards are often better than the ones that the SSD makers supply. Not the ones under the GPU though, but you don't really have a choice there.