Dear fellow enthusiasts.

I know, I know. Now you have a PCI-E 4 board (soon) and the temptation is great to use it somehow and so this SSD is very tempting. That's what happened to me, I almost bought one. But after a little research, I can only advise everyone against buying it at this point:

Sure, in a few synthetic benchmarks, the speeds are brute. But if you read the review by Guru3D, for example, you will see that the 1TB Samsung Evo 970 Plus is not only on a par, but clearly ahead in most cases. The 970 Evo Plus is available in Switzerland from around 226.- and at Digitec at least for 240.-.

And if you read the review of Tom's Hardware for the 1TB variants of the 970 Evo Plus and compare the test results with those of the Adata XPG SX8200 Pro, you will see that they are not that different. Sometimes one is ahead, then the other, and apart from the energy consumption, where the SX8200 Pro clearly stands out, the differences are nowhere significant. The only difference is that the SX8200 Pro is the best in this country.

Sure, it's not a PCI-E 4, but many users should still get more performance for their money for almost half the price.

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Dear fellow enthusiasts.

I know, I know. Now you have a PCI-E 4 board (soon) and the temptation is great to use it somehow and so this SSD is very tempting. That's what happened to me, I almost bought one. But after a little research, I can only advise everyone against buying it at this point:

Sure, in a few synthetic benchmarks, the speeds are brute. But if you read the review by Guru3D, for example, you will see that the 1TB Samsung Evo 970 Plus is not only on a par, but clearly ahead in most cases. The 970 Evo Plus is available in Switzerland from around 226.- and at Digitec at least for 240.-.

And if you read the review of Tom's Hardware for the 1TB variants of the 970 Evo Plus and compare the test results with those of the Adata XPG SX8200 Pro, you will see that they are not that different. Sometimes one is ahead, then the other, and apart from the energy consumption, where the SX8200 Pro clearly stands out, the differences are nowhere significant. The only difference is that the SX8200 Pro is the best in this country.

Sure, it's not a PCI-E 4, but many users should still get more performance for their money for almost half the price.

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As a fellow enthusiast, I would like to throw the following into the ring:
Most current SSDs consist of an SLC cache memory with very fast chips and the much larger "main memory" with significantly slower chips. The size of the fast cache, varies from manufacturer to manufacturer between 20 and 30 GB, sometimes more, e.g. 48 GB at Samsung. When this cache is full, the data throughput collapses. Take a look, from about 5:25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tt5ShvsXCA

So the question is, do you reach / exceed the size of the cache in your specific use case? And without being able to prove it, I will boldly claim that the entire SSD does not consist of chips that are so fast, but that it has an ultra-fast SLC cache.

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So the SSD is clearly faster, but also more expensive. Which is also logical, who would pay more for a slower SSD?

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