In reply to a post by jchamier:

My 12th Gen Intel i7 machine has only 2x USB-C ports, and only one is 3.2 spec; despite two Gen 4 NVMe ports on the mobo.

at least one of those ports are wired to the chipset - two of three on my x570 is chipset wired - hello pcie 4x4 speed

In reply to a post by Taras:

at least one of those ports are wired to the chipset - two of three on my x570 is chipset wired - hello pcie 4x4 speed

I'm a B660 chipset, and yes, my Samsung Pro 980 NVMe drive reports PCIe 4 x 4 speed in the Samsung Magician tool.

Just a shame the mobo doesn't include USB 4 / Thunderbolt 4 ports; as my personal laptop, is a 12th Gen CPU with two USB-C connectors supporting those and they're about the same year

In reply to a post by MHC:

Just looked at 990 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD and they are just £202 to me! But that is getting silly for my needs.

Samsung 990 Pro's are currently top of the tree in performance, from Samsung for internal NVMe based drives. So you can expect they will be pricey.

However I think its still possible to get pretty good price / performance bang-for-buck deal with these things.

Ebuyer still have them for £130 in the 2 TB size (which is actually cheaper than the same drive they are selling in the 1 TB size)

Samsung also offer a 5-year warranty on their T9 portable drives and 3 years on the others in their portable SSD range. I think most of their internal 990 back to 960 Pro range of internal drives are also 5-years (admittedly with a TBW limit also).

Post deleted by MHC

Was just looking at their 2TB 990 with Heatsink - £120 to me direct from Samsung with next day delivery.

Anyway, finally went for a couple of T7 Shield drives - plenty fast enough for my needs at present. 2TB in case with USB leads £113 delivered.

Are you getting an extra discount with that?

https://www.samsung.com/uk/memory-storage/nvme-ssd/n...

I can only see then for £144

I sure am ... 10, 20, 30 percent depending on product.

What’s the secret sauce 😂?