I recently picked up a Kyo Kaizen H610 motherboard that only supports PCIe 3x4 SSDs. Now I'm debating between the Team NV5000, which gives me read/write speeds of 4,500/1,900 MB/s (PCIe 4), and the Adata Legend 710, with read/write speeds of 2,400/1,800 MB/s (PCIe 3). Interestingly, the Team SSD is less expensive than the Adata one, even though it seems to offer better performance, assuming I'll hit a speed bottleneck due to the PCIe 3 limitation. My calculations suggest I'd still get around 3,500/1,900 MB/s performance with the Team SSD versus the Adata's 2,400/1,800 MB/s. I usually work with large data transfers and I'm on a tight budget, so upgrading to a PCIe 4 motherboard doesn't feel worth it. Am I missing anything important here?
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Are you confident about those speed ratings for that PCIe 4 SSD when paired with a PCIe 3 motherboard? I'm curious about how you arrived at those figures.
I checked the specifications for the NV5000 PCIe 4.0 SSD, and it claims up to 4,500 MB/s read and 1,900 MB/s write. It's strange that it's cheaper than the Adata SSD when they have the same storage capacity.