SSD & MAX IO Speed

[RomanEmperor]

Budget (including currency): 2000 USD

Country: Sweden

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Data reading

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

I am in the process of assembling a new PC primarily for data reading purposes. To optimize this, I intend to incorporate high-speed SSDs with a minimum read speed of 3500 MB/s. My inquiry pertains to the selection of a suitable motherboard that can fully utilize the maximum speed capabilities of these SSDs.

I aim to install at least a couple of these high-speed SSDs and utilize their full bandwidth simultaneously. Specifically, I plan to read data from four SSDs at speeds of 3500 MB/s or higher, depending on the specific SSD models.

I am uncertain whether an IO card such as the "Asus Hyper M.2 X16" is equipped to handle this task effectively.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[HypixelBedwars]

What type of SSDs are you looking for? NVME drives are faster but sata drives are cheaper but are somewhat comparble to NVME. Nvme drives do have more features. 

 

Recommendations (NVME):

Predator GM7000 read speed 7500 mb/s $60 1TB

Samsung 970 evo plus read speed 3800 mb/s $59.99 1TB

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

What do you mean by data reading? What programs? What io patterns?

 

HOw much storage do you need in TB?

 

You can use those x16 to m.2 cards on supported platforms. You can use am4/am5 with 4 ssds if you don't need much gpu performance.

 

 

[SorryBella]

12 hours ago, HypixelBedwars said:

What type of SSDs are you looking for? NVME drives are faster but sata drives are cheaper but are somewhat comparble to NVME. Nvme drives do have more features. 

 

Recommendations (NVME):

Predator GM7000 read speed 7500 mb/s $60 1TB

Samsung 970 evo plus read speed 3800 mb/s $59.99 1TB

 

Jesus fuck these are old recommendation. And besides, 1TB for someone who are looking at storage centric setup is kinda hard to justify here thanks to pcie lane limitations of modern platform. Id rather have the density at worse $/TB.

 

Corsair MP600 PRO 4 TB 290 USD

KC3000 330 USD

Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 4 TB 350 USD

Seagate FireCuda 530 4 TB 360 USD

Crucial T700 4TB (good luck finding them lmao) 450 USD

12 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What do you mean by data reading?

Also, HEAVY +1. A lot of programs you assume needing a massive IOPS bandwidth most of the time plainly don't. Specify.

[QuantumSingularity]

Probably gonna try to mine chia on them or some other storage based coin. Seen a lot of 4 and 8TB lately suddenly being out of stock after staying still for more than 6 months. As for the drives - the usual stuff that works well with enterprise datacenters; FireCuda, SN850, 980Evo... That kind of stuff. It's not so much the drive though as the PCIe card you would be using and the mobo. Cheap card or wanky mobo could easily trip the whole operation, no matter how good of drive you get. Sabrent have a good card:

https://sabrent.com/products/ec-p4bf

Cooling those drives well will also help them keep up that read/write speed. In theory with a good X670e with 2 PCIe x16 slots that can run in x8/x8 config both at gen 5 speeds, you should be able to use 2 of these, each with 4 drives in it. 8x Acer Predator GM7000 are basically exactly $2000.