Question 1

Who do you think you are?

Accepted Answer

Chuck Norris. You best be watching your mouth!

Question 2

Are there any intel gen 4 PCIe capable motherboards?

Accepted Answer

yeah, unofficially, some mobo makers introduced pcie4 feature, as a "ready" feature, like the Gigabite Aorus Ultra

go to egg page and look under "Specs" tab, and then under "Storage Devices"

SATA 6Gb/s
    4 x SATA 6Gb/s

M.2
    1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2260/2280 SATA and PCIe x4/x2 SSD support) (M2A_CPU)
    1 x M.2 connector on the back of the motherboard (Socket 3, M key, type 2260/2280 SATA and PCIe x4/x2 SSD support) (M2M_SB)"

Unofficially only, it is "ready" for pcie 4 but officially Intel is not there yet, so they can't advertise outright yet.

Until Intel hits the road with it, it be thus.

Question 3

How does this compare to a 3200mbps read pcie gen 3 nvme ssd?

Accepted Answer

After watching some videos performing benchmarks and reviews, it appears to have the CAPABILITY of being bore than twice as fast and then gen3 PCIe models.  This is assuming you, in fact, have a gen 4 PCIe capable motherboard, and additionally a powerful CPU to handle the fast tasks.

Question 4

I've heard that PCIe 4.0 runs hotter than PCIe 3.0, is a heatsink going to be necessary or at the very least a good idea for the longevity of the SSD?

Accepted Answer

Most of the high end X570 Motherboards have a cover for PCIe 4.0 SSDs, and the Chipset Fan cools the SSD.  So if you have a B550 motherboard or a low end X570 motherboard, it would be good to put a heatsink on your SSD.

Question 5

Will this work as an OS drive for a desktop PC?

Accepted Answer

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Question 6

This drive has a cache; whats that for?

Accepted Answer

Almost all current high end M.2 MLC/TLC/QLC SSDs have a DRAM cache as well as a pseudo SLC cache. The purpose of both is to make writing to the drive much faster for most reasonably sized writes to the drive. DRAM can store (temporarily) information many times faster than the native writing abilities of the drive, so it can, for instance, load 10,000 small files into the ram in 1 second and as far as the rest of the computer is concerned, the data is on the drive. What is actually happening is they are dumped into the DRAM cache, then pushed into the pseudo SLC cache (a secondary cache that is part of the NAND memory itself, but stores less information per cell, so can be written faster without errors). It is then finally slowly pushed into the much slower TLC NAND flash memory for permanent storage. To the user this makes it look like writes to the drive are happening instantly, when in fact they are much more slowly being pushed onto the final TLC flash behind the scenes. In normal daily usage this will make writes to the drive appear very fast. You only run into trouble with write speeds when you write such a large amount at once that you overcome both the dram and pseudo SLC cache and have to slow down writes to the native speed of the TLC NAND flash, which is vastly slower. You may run into this if you were to, for instance, copy a 60 GB game from one M.2 drive to another. After the first few GB it would slow down to a small fraction of the original speed.

Question 7

i saw that this was backward compatible with m.2 PCIe 3.0. Is there a point of buying this for PCIe3.0? Will this be faster than 970 pro on 3.0?

Accepted Answer

I have 5 GEN4 M.2 drives on a Threadripper X399 build. They run a the max speed for the GEN3 CPU lanes, but it's ready for an upgrade to a X570or a TRX40 board. Buying GEN3 is locking down upgrades to GEN3 speeds. M.2 sockets that run off shared cpu lanes to the chipset is bad enough, but buying new gear built on old tech is worse.

Question 8

Is this one-sided or two-sided?

Accepted Answer

One sided per StorageReview channel review.

Question 9

Is this compatible with the PS5?

Accepted Answer

The bay on the PS5 isn't even active yet. Wait until the firmware is updated on the PS5 and check the white list.

Though the speed on this thing DOES meet the minimum requirements Sony has put out.

Question 10

Since most motherboards come with heatsink covers on the SSD area, will the chip with heatsink still work with the cover from m/b, or should one buy the chip w/o the heatsink? Thanks

Accepted Answer

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Brand	SAMSUNG
Series	980 PRO
Model	MZ-V8P1T0B/AM
Device Type	Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Used For	Consumer

Form Factor	M.2 2280
Capacity	1TB
Memory Components	Samsung V-NAND 3-bit MLC
Interface	PCI-Express Gen 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.3c
Protocol	NVMe 1.3
Controller	Samsung
Cache	1GB LPDDR4
Encryption	AES 256-bit Full Disk Encryption, TCG/Opal V2.0, Encrypted Drive (IEEE1667)

Max Sequential Read	Up to 7000 MBps
Max Sequential Write	Up to 5000 MBps
4KB Random Read	QD1: Up to 22,000 IOPS QD32: Up to 1,000,000 IOPS
4KB Random Write	QD1: Up to 60,000 IOPS QD32: Up to 1,000,000 IOPS
Terabytes Written (TBW)	600TB
MTBF	1,500,000 hours

Power Consumption (Idle)	35 mW
Power Consumption (Active)	Read: 6.2W Write: 5.7W
Operating Temperature	0°C ~ +70°C
Storage Temperature	-40°C ~ +85°C

Height	2.38mm
Width	22.15mm
Depth	80.15mm
Weight	9.00g

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