I was looking into getting a PCI-E M2 adaptor for my 3,1 and was browsing several models. what puzzles me is the huge price differences between adaptor. From Highpoint`s 600$ extreme to a 300$ QNAP QM2-2P10G1T, and all the way down to 30$ for a two space adaptor from Startech. Is this a case of higher price - higher performance ? Or are the known brands just overcharging? Intuitively I would belive performance was mainly due to the drives you put in the adaptor, not the controller card itself...
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Why so extreme price differences between M2 adaptors
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Take a look on the first post of the Blade SSDs - NVMe & AHCI thread. A good cheap choice is AquaComputer kryoM.2 EVO.
970PRO 5 minutes after power up, doing Spotlight indexing, gets to 74ºC. If you don't want to live with thermal throttle, or worse, overheat - use a heatsink.
Others will have more technical answers, but I can tell you what my 970Pro is reporting. I cloned my old boot drive to it originally (300GB continuous write?) and I do weekly clone backups (80GB's at a time?) Total power on time for my drive is 1 month 17 days. My lifetime maximum temperature ever reached was 50c which is far below the recommended maximum limit of 81c.
That's with the AquaComputer kryoM.2 heatsink.
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Really? Wow. Is that with a heatsink?
Without a heatsink. I was doing some tests with an SM951-AHCI 4-blade array with my SSD7101-A and used a Chinese no-name adapter with my 970 Pro, within 5 minutes from power up DriveDX warned about overheat.