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Finding the right storage solution for your system can improve your workflow and productivity - especially when you need fast file transfers. Finding the right storage drive for the job can be a challenge though.

HDDs (Hard Disk Drives) provide bulk storage that can be cost effective per Terabyte, but they are also slow on read and write speeds.

SSDs (Solid State Drives) are a nice performance upgrade, but they tend to cost more per terabyte than HDDs and are only ~twice as fast as HDDs.

M.2 NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) SSDs on the other hand offer a huge performance increase thanks to their on-board flash memory and ability to communicate through the PCIe Serial Bus. Per terabyte costs trended towards being highest on NVMes but with improvements in their design cost is coming down.

But how do you connect your NVMe to your PC / Workstation if you do not have a M.2 Slot on the motherboard?

PCIe NVMe adapters like the:
ASUS Hyper M.2 Gen 4 (PCIe 4.0)
ASUS Hyper M.2 V2 (PCIe 3.0)
Gigabyte AORUS Gen 4 NVMe adapter (PCIe 4.0)
HP Z Turbo Drive Quad Pro (PCIe 3.0)

But which one works best?
We’ll work on that answer in a future video!

For now, lets take a look at which NVMes are cost effective to obtain and test their performance in the HP Z840 Workstation with BlackMagicDesign’s Disk Speed Check when Reading/Writing a 5GB file.

We will test several drives:
10TB Western Digital Red NAS Plus HDD (10GbE Connection)
16TB IronWolf Pro NAS HDD (SATA 3.0)
4TB Samsung 870 Pro QVO SSD (RAID 1; SATA 3.0)
1TB Samsung 980 M.2 NVMe (AORUS Gen 4 PCIe)
500GB Samsung 970 Evo Plus M.2 NVMe (Jeyi air-cooled PCIe adapter)

And the best solution is...

Video INDEX:

0:00 Intro - NVMe Overview
0:58 NVMe Price Summary - Popular models - PCIe 5.0, 4.0, 3.0
1:38 NVMe PCIe Adapters!
1:42 Gigabyte AORUS GEN4 AIC 4x NVMe to PCIe 4.0 x16 Adapter
2:25 ASUS Hyper M.2 GEN4 NVMe 4x NVMe to PCIe 4.0 x16 Adapter
2:42 ASUS Hyper M.2 V2 4x NVMe to PCIe 3.0 x16 Adapter
3:15 Comparison Hyper GEN4 vs Hyper V2
3:23 HP Z Turbo Drive Quad Pro 4x NVMe to PCIe 3.0 x16 Adapter
4:25 Speed Testing - BlackMagicDesign Disk Speed Test (HP Z840 Workstation)
4:33 NVMe : AORUS GEN4 AIC + Samsung 980 (NVMe under write load in background; this 4k 60fps footage being recorded)
5:13 NVMe : AORUS GEN4 AIC + Samsung 980 (NVMe not under write load in background)
5:58 SSD : Olmaster 5.25" SSD Adapter + 2x Samsung 870 QVO 4TB in RAID 1
7:02 HDD : Z840 HDD caddy - Seagate IronWolf Pro 16TB NAS HDD
8:15 HDD on 10GbE : Z840 to X540-T2 to Unifi-Flex-XG to X540-T2 to Z420 to W/D 10TB RED NAS Plus HDD managed with TrueNAS Core.
10:41 NVMe : Jeyi Air-Cooled PCIe 1x M.2 NVMe Adapter = 1x Samsung 970 Evo Plus (Win 10 Boot)
11:21 Conclusions - HDD vs SSD vs NVMe
12:22 Future Teaser - HP Z840 + 8TB of GEN 4 of NVMe?

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