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I’m using a RAID 0 setup dedicated solely to my Steam/Epic game library. It read/writes at 13GB/sec. Two 1TB Samsung Pro 990 SSDs. It’s absolutely complete overkill; I just launched Stalker 2 and loaded my latest quicksave to test it and my max read rate looking at one drive was 249.455MB/sec. Both

You do not notice SSD speed differences in daily use. The Samsung 990Pro is the benchmark in PCIe4.0 SSDs - much faster on paper and in benchmarks than the OEM PM 981. I have retrofitted quite a few of those in xx80-generation Thinkpads and the faster speeds compared to the old Samsung PM981 these s

Benchmarks show cap of 1.4GB/s for 990 pro https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-990-pro-ssd-review/2 SSD is definitely not the culprit here, 1.4GB/s translates to around 10Gbps. Most likely OP is CPU/RAM capped.

The ChatGPT recommendation about the Samsung 990 Pro 4TB over the Gen 5 SSD makes sense, the real world speed difference is barely noticeable and you get double the storage. Also that CPU choice is... interesting for 3D work, a lot of people would say go Ryzen 9 instead.

That Samsung drive is really fast, but unless you're using it for work it's a bit pointless. Look into real world gaming performances of gen 4 vs gen 5 ssd's. Spoiler alert there's close to 0 difference. That being said you could still make an upgrade to the ssd. There are 2 nand types in ssd's, QLC

Ahhhhh ok this is more what I was looking for. I had to google the board and threadripper but can you confirm its pic e 3.0? If that is the platform your nvmes are being bottlenecked by the mobo. So if you had a 990 pro from Samsung it will only read and write at 3500mb/s even though it’s labeled fo

I have a 4TB Samsung 990 Pro in my 40GBPS enclosure, a first gen OWC 1M2 (they have a 2nd gen TB5 80GBPS model). The 990 Pro M.2 is way faster than the Thunderbolt 4 bandwidth can carry, by about 2x. It is just slightly faster than Thunderbolt 5 can carry. The 990 Pro gets about 7500MBPS and the TB5

For a motherboard, I would go with a b850m from gigabyte as it supports am5 and all the later things. For psu, just find a good one from cybernetics though I would recommend at the very least 750W gold 80+. Ram get 32gb 6000mhz ddr5 preferably with low latency though currently that’s pretty expensiv

i got a samsung 2tb 990 pro for my f16. no complaints. it’s faster than the stock 1tb ssd it came with according to benchmarks i ran. just be very careful with the screws as they strip easily. and make sure you know which screws go where when taking the back plate off the laptop. some are longer tha

i ran into this on a similar zbook last month. 45s is definitely long for that machine. first try disabling unnecessary startup items in task manager. if that doesn't help, the stock drive might be slowing down. swapping to a Samsung 990 Pro NVMe SSD cut my boot time to under 15 seconds. worth check