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Just note, I am not *torturing* these drives for this test. There are worse scenarios than a nearly-full disk write which is where my sustained write test comes from. 100% drive utilization for both reading and writing without ever letting the drive rest or TRIM will degrade performance further...

I've been informed by Sabrent that the last of the old drives were distributed in 12/2021. Unless some vendor has held onto inventory for that long without selling it, then anything you buy today should be the new version. Trust me, I would much prefer that this drive be called the Sabrent...

Here is a bit of an interesting one. I've got a brand new Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 'system' for sale. It's a 1U server, the specific model is 7Y99A016NA and you can find all the SR635 info you want over here. System is in quotes for a reason; as confirmed, this thing is almost incapable of...

The x16 slot, x8 slot, and one of the two M.2 slots are all directly connected to the CPU PCIe 4.0 lanes, and the X16 slot supports bifurcation as well.

Perhaps! I imagine that the hot-swap functionality will be host dependent, similar to the other NVMe ICY DOCK products I reviewed!

Ah. For the most part, I have difficulty blacklisting any particular vendor because so few of them make their own parts. I find it is generally easier to follow the specific components - preferring or disliking Phison controllers versus SMI controllers, as an example. Since other than the...

I did not encounter any issues, and generally do not update firmware without a good reason to do so. But Kingston has issued a firmware update that claims to address the Linux problem. https://media.kingston.com/support/downloads/SA2000_S5Z42109_RN.pdf is the release document regarding it, and...

Your CDM results immediately show me that you did not encounter the same problems I did. That's why I blamed *my* specific test platform rather than holding it against the P5800X in general; it works for other people.

While I can understand the logic, for the vast majority of the SSD reviews I have done I disagree. The reasoning is pretty simple; if someone buys and uses the SSD I am reviewing, they likely won't operate it under 'benchmark conditions', so I try to run my benchmarks with the drive...

This one's a bit of a chunky boy anyways, even if such a laptop existed :)

Looks interesting enough to me! :)

Literally an hour ago, primary PC rebooted. Upon boot back up, rear panel audio is kaput. Brand new X570 AORUS MASTER mobo.

And even when you use an adapter like the previous ICY DOCK products I reviewed that convert M.2 to a hot-swappable format, your host system still has to support NVMe/PCIe hot-plug to enable the functionality. SATA/SAS, on the other hand, enjoys near universal hot-plug support even on consumer...

I really just want to buy that chassis and put my own system into it. Mini-ITX with 7 drive bays accessible from the front? Sign me up.

I haven't investigated it for booting, or even on current-gen NVME RAID in any capacity actually. But in the past, anything remotely considered "software" RAID, like all consumer on-motherboard RAID implementations, was unsupported in ESXi or Linux in general. And by 'unsupported' I mean...

To my knowledge, VMware doesn't like this.

This is exactly how I updated the BIOS on mine. I had a 3600 installed in it at the time, but the system was powered off during the BIOS update, so the installed CPU had nothing to do with it.

This is a long thread and I certainly haven't read it all, I just wanted to post that I've plopped a 5800X in the X570D4U-2L2T that I reviewed, and it worked just fine with the beta BIOS.

I think the official procedure is to camp out in front of a Best Buy while making religious offerings to every delivery truck that arrives.

Just a note, the 16MB limitation has been regarded as a scapegoat excuse given at the time, since there are X570 boards that shipped with 16MB BIOS chips. My personal workstation is an ASRock B450 Pro4, which also has a 16MB BIOS chip, and has already had its Ryzen 5000 supporting beta BIOS...