PNY Gen4 prices are down now, both CS3040 and CS3140.
https://shopee.com.my/PNY-XLR8-CS3140-M.2-2...b0-b800bd381edd
https://shopee.com.my/PNY-XLR8-CS3040-M.2-2...99-08046f64b90d
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QUOTE(John Chaser @ Mar 1 2022, 02:12 PM) -snip- I am actually fine with those benchmarks (for that value), since I just use it for gaming. It is recreating a itch now for me to buy the CS3140 to accompany my CS3040 I bought sometime back. Why la poison me.Do you do large file transfers often? |
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QUOTE(John Chaser @ Mar 10 2022, 10:06 AM) Recently I've been playing alot of DIRT2, and I now picked up a habit of recording my replays. I've collected about 100GB worth of DIRT2 replays over the past month. So yeah I do the occasional transfer between drives. Probably once or twice a week. Replays? Are you a youtuber?I notice the real world tranfer hovers between 2GB/s and 3GB/s. I assume this is something due to transfer overhead or the fact that I'm using WIN10. I think the move from GEN3/CS3040 to CS3140 is not worth it. However if you are coming from a mechanical drive or SSD, then yeah. Especialy with price of RM1109 for 2TB. Does you CS3040 come with a chunky heat spreader pre-applied?  Thinking of it as an addition. Swap out my main CPU M.2. slot to CS3140, and relegate the CS3040 to PCI-E. This will be troublesome though as my Windows etc. is all on my old drive. Then again, I realised this is overkill from a space perspective, I still have my old PC fully intact with space still available, and here I am adding another 2 TB NVME while my main is only 1.5 TB used. Nope it does not come with a heatsink. I actually prefer not to have one if I pull the trigger for CS3140 since I will be using my motherboard M.2 heatsinks instead (hoping to save some pennies). |
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