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of course they're of mark July is the month that they release add-in nvme PJ adding card SSDs which come in four hundred gigabytes eight hundred gigabyte and 1.6 terabyte flavors though as usual with the driver reviews around tech yes City I'll be throwing this through the standard toy to test and skimming that cream straight off the top to see how this thing perform and whether it is worth your money welcome back guys this is brian rocking in with a newly released nx500 which under the hood sports eight banks of toshiba 15 nanometer mlc nand flash attached to to 256 megabytes so 512 megabytes in total ddr3 1600 megahertz nanyo burst banks sending data to and from a new generation fastened five thousand and seven dash eleven controller and when it came to the benchmarks we firstly had my favorite which is HD tune Pro we're conducting extended right tests with 50 gigabytes of pure straight stressing across various data patterns showed that the performance was very consistent with both read and write speeds with reads coming in at two thousand five hundred twenty five megabytes per second and one thousand three hundred and 80 megabytes per second writes which admittedly in the case of a product in a calibre such as this is expected those the speeds on a random test which is the most accurate for real-world performance was quite a stretch from the advertised three thousand megabytes per second reads and two thousand four hundred megabytes per second writes which were printed on the box though curiously when changing to a zero filled Donna Patton which is mainly used to securely erase data and isn't really relevant to anyone wanting this in a workstation the drive scored two thousand eight hundred twenty six megabytes per second reads and two thousand one hundred sixty five megabytes per second writes and here the speeds came really close to those advertised speeds marketing stuff crazier but no I don't digress this is important stuff roll the Jesus music so performance is quite solid though how does it compare to the previous m2m VM EMP five hundred that I recently reviewed on the channel well after conducting more tests the first of which was a SSD there really wasn't any different between the speeds however the nx500 dogs have an impressive five-year warranty which is two more years than the mp5 hundred three years and we're testing the random access times it did have extremely fast times with the worst speed reported being 1.5 milliseconds as opposed to the MP 500 which had a three milliseconds worst response time game boot times were virtually identical and just like the MP 500 these nvme drives are in a class above side of three drives and one area they do perform well in is Premiere Pro for example when importing large amounts of files this is where the nx500 did slightly edged out the MP 500 which was nice to see though there is a big heatsink and back plate that certainly does add to the cosmetics but does it actually do anything in improving performance well the answer is yes and actually it is a necessity as when doing the temperature test for 21 degrees see ambience the nx500 scored 32 degrees idle and under stress scored 46 degrees which is well under the 70 degree limit though removing the heatsink it actually introduced a new dilemma the drive was now throttling reaching the same 46 degrees but performing terribly making this comparison irrelevant and meaning that you'll just want to leave that heat think on there though moving on to other specifications and features the included software toolbox allows for cloning trim and secure erase and the NX 500 400 gigabyte edition also has a 698 terabytes written and 2 million hours meantime for for failure ratings which on the higher capacity mode does expand these limits further and there are smart ECC smart refresh smart flash advanced garbage collection and static and dynamic wear leveling which also contribute to these drives including a solid five-year warranty which is very generous and should service peace of mind to someone out laying the 319 USD asking price or if you aren't Australia this will retail for 515 AUD so this price it raises the question of is the nx500 worth it and really in my opinion it comes down to another question of do you need this drive if you're a guy who just installs your OS your favorite games and all browsers the web then you certainly don't need this drive it would be a big fat waste of money though if you do transfer a huge amount of files have the extra PCIe lanes and do scratch and record a lot of footage with Premiere Pro for example or just need a workhorse of an SSD that performs consistently and of course it's backed by a generous warranty then I can see myself recommending this drive of course there are other options out there and a lot of you guys have been asking me to test practically any drive I have here against Samsung's Pro variants which I unfortunately don't have though I have heard a lot of good things about them though back to the NX 500 solid drive the numbers indicate good performance and the drivers well built all round anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this review and let me know in the comments section below do you currently have an nvme PCIe drive if not why not and if so what do you use it for we'd love reading your comments as always and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye