Solidigm P44 Pro 2 TB & 1 TB

[mechtech]

So just have to buy the cheaper duck

 

[Space Lynx]

I'd take SN770 for 50 dollars less.

its only 30 dollars less actually for the 1tb model. and thats only when the SN770 1tb is on sale.

I'd rather pay $30 more to have top of the line.

 

[Scour]

Did Solidigm respond to the 1GB/s write speed at beginning?

 

[chrcoluk]

Exactly .. everybody was thinking "DirectStorage = sales$$$", but then it turns out to be vaporware, and v1.1 is already announced, but of course with nothing to show.
Just a few weeks ago Phison did a round of press "reviews" with their friends, testing some synthetic traffic patterns that they think DirectStorage will need, without any evidence (there are no games using it)


It's listed on the Test System page: WD Black 1 TB 7200 RPM 3.5" SATA

Whats funny is DS works on PCIE gen 3 as I expected. Yet we will get SSDs coming on the market touting DS as if its only going to be supported on those SKUs.

Seen some people doing testing comparing gen 3 vs 4 vs 5 on DS workloads.

 

[W1zzard]

Did Solidigm respond to the 1GB/s write speed at beginning?

No, and it's a total non-issue for real-life, because the first GB you're writing is during OS installation and then ever again

 

[Scour]

If you use it for the OS

In my Multi-SSD-Systems it´s not always so

And it´s still a bug, want to see it fixed, only to see SK Hynix did something or

 

[cruwing124]

No, and it's a total non-issue for real-life, because the first GB you're writing is during OS installation and then ever again

I'm confused, so does that mean once you write 16GB to the drive, the problem never exists again? Or does it happen again once you format the drive and start writing?

 

[W1zzard]

I'm confused, so does that mean once you write 16GB to the drive, the problem never exists again? Or does it happen again once you format the drive and start writing?

Every time you format it, the first 16 GB are slow. Since you usually never format a drive, this happens once and never exists again.

 

[Chrispy_]

Every time you format it, the first 16 GB are slow. Since you usually never format a drive, this happens once and never exists again.

It's also only likely to be something you could even notice if you were intentionally monitoring sequential burst transfer rates on a freshly formatted drive - outside of a reviewer taking benchmarks I cannot think of a scenario where that matters.

"Slow" is relative, too; It's still copying data at >1000MB/s and the only way you'd potentially notice something was up if is your first use of the disk was a ~16-50GB pure sequential transfer from RAM or another equally fast SSD. 16GB would take 15 seconds instead of 3 seconds, and that 12-second penalty would be lost in the noise for larger transfers >~50GB, while smaller transfers would finish so fast that your OS likely wouldn't even have time to display a progress bar. You'd need to know about the issue, set up a performance monitoring too, and carefully choose an unlikely/unrealistic combination of source device and source data to ensure that you could actually capture the behaviour. For the unrealistic combination of sequential data from a fast-enough source, the actual transfer time isn't likely to be relevant in the first place.

TL;DR the time/effort wasted trying to even contrive scenarios where you can spot the behaviour is clearly a much bigger deal than the problem itself.

 

[bobbybluz]

I just bought a 1TB one for $84 at Newegg. The sale ends in a few hours.

Solidigm P44 Pro M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 4.0 x4 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPFKKW010X7X1 - Newegg.com

 

[ThrashZone]

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[tpudine]

Nice review and a great drive. Hopefully Samsung sends you a 990 Pro, I'm interested to see how they compare.

 

[bobbybluz]

I put a new 1TB in a customer build I finished last night. It benched at 7155 with a fresh install of Win 11 Pro. ASRock Z690 Steel Legend, i5 12600K and 64GB of G.Skill Ripjavs V DDR4 3200. I later installed the Solidigm NVMe driver but didn't benchmark it. That current BH Photo price is great, Newegg wanted $129 for a 1TB two days ago.

 

[W1zzard]

Hopefully Samsung sends you a 990 Pro, I'm interested to see how they compare.

Samsung has been ignoring us for years, so very unlikely. I'll probably just buy a 990 Pro some time after Computex when I have nothing better to do.

 

[Udyr]

I put a new 1TB in a customer build I finished last night. It benched at 7155 with a fresh install of Win 11 Pro. ASRock Z690 Steel Legend, i5 12600K and 64GB of G.Skill Ripjavs V DDR4 3200. I later installed the Solidigm NVMe driver but didn't benchmark it. That current BH Photo price is great, Newegg wanted $129 for a 1TB two days ago.

What were the temps on that unit under that particular load?

Mine is 30C idle, 40C gaming, even after a couple hours of use, with no fans directly pointed to it. I've seen it drop to 25C (idle) on cool nights.

 

[Daniel15]

Thanks for the solid review. I'm building a new home server and the old one used an SK Hynix Gold P31 which I really liked, so I think I'm going to stick with SK Hynix or Solidigm for my new build.

The 1TB version is now $59 and the 2TB version is now $109 on Amazon, Newegg, and Micro Center, and Newegg has an extra $10 off if you buy two. A lot of the popular ones are very close in price for 2TB now - WD SN770 is $100, WD SN850x is $119, Samsung 980 Pro is $119, Sabrent Rocket 4 is $119, Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus is $129.

I'm amazed at how much cheaper they've become. I bought a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB in early 2021 for $399, and that was a decent price at the time.

 

[Dahita]

Went back to $129 on Newegg but still $109 on Amazon. Unreal.

 

[Daniel15]

Went back to $129 on Newegg but still $109 on Amazon. Unreal.

Amazing right?? My understanding is that SSDs are so cheap at the moment due to an oversupply of memory and NAND chips (they ramped up production a lot, but then demand dropped), and that they'll eventually get more expensive again as that stockpile starts to dwindle. Probably the perfect time to buy at the moment.