A guy on a local forum is selling a used Intel DC P4600 4TB PCIe SSD for a really good price - around what a new 4TB SATA SSD costs.
The drive is one year old and apparently wasn't used much (RAID 0 in a gaming PC, in storage for 6 months). With the good price, high speed, ridiculous reliability and built-in heatsink, I'm very tempted to go for it.
Another forum user bought the other drive from him and claims it works perfectly. The seller is new on the forum with only a few trades, but the buyer of the other drive is well-known and has a good reputation.
I'm hesitant for a few reasons.
- It should have a five year warranty, but the seller doesn't know where the drive was bought and doesn't have a proof of purchase. So tracking down the right place for an RMA in case of failure may be tricky.
- I'm not sure if using a server-grade drive in a normal gaming PC may cause issues?
- This may be dumb, but I'm worried that it will mess with the aesthetics of my case. I have a black/red/orange theme going, and a shiny steel bracket with silver heatsink and green PCB will stick out. This wouldn't be an issue with an M.2 or a 2.5" drive as they'd both be out of sight.
- I don't really need NVMe speeds. I just want to install games on it, and the difference in loading times between SATA SSD's and NVMe's isn't really significant enough IMO. I already have an NVMe drive for my OS.
- That said, PCIe 4.0 drives are now a thing, and I have an X570 mobo so I can take advantage of that in future.
What do you guys think? Is it too good of a deal to pass up, or should I be boring and just get a new SATA SSD for less hassle?
My PC specs:
R7 3700X
2070 Super
Asus TUF X570 Plus motherboard
16GB 3200MHz RAM
512Gb NVMe M.2