got a 970 evo plus

[_Dave_]

decent speeds “up to 3500mbs”

currently test it and it was 500mbs but it was a small file and transferring from another slow ssd

[podkall]

It's a good SSD, max speed doesn't mean that the SSD will do the things at that speed,

 

you don't drive 200 mph in town, or when you're turning

[jre84]

I have a 970 evo plus 2tb also, its a great drive. Im getting great performance and even though I have a sn850x that does 7500mbps I dont use it as a main drive because the real world applications is almost non existent I don't notice much difference even going from 650mbps to 3500mbps. Also just to throw this in there at london drugs right now you can get a 4tb t7 shield external ssd and its just fantastic and a great deal at 270 cad. im getting 650mbs but its almost locked at that speed.

[NobleGamer]

15 hours ago, _Dave_ said:

decent speeds “up to 3500mbs”

currently test it and it was 500mbs but it was a small file and transferring from another slow ssd

Because:

• 3500mbps is the max sequential speed under ideal conditions
• Small/random files have much slower read/write speeds
• Who knows how much your slow SSD was bottlenecking the transfer to/from your 970 evo plus.

 

If you compare max highway speed of a car to its max speed when going offroading and towing a trailer, yeah there's going to be a huge difference.