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addlink Addgame PS5 Compatible A95 4TB Up to 7200 MB/s Read Speed Internal Solid State Drive - M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 1.4 Gen4X4 3D TLC with Dram NAND SSD w/Heatsink (aUK4TBA95M2P)

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Before we conduct our own testing on this SSD, Let’s take a closer look at the reported specifications and benchmarks first. The Addlink A95 SSD arrives in multiple capacities (below). The Prices currently are a little inconsistent (with each higher capacity tier actually having a higher price per GB – quite unusual) likely due to the hardware shortages, the Pandemic, Chia has affected SSD availability in the last 12 months and most recently the announcement that PS5 supports this SSD and it has increased the majority of PS5 supported SSDs price point in most regions. Below is a breakdown of how each Addlink A95 SSD compares: Brand/Series The NAND on the Addlink A95 is where the data lives! SSDs (as you no doubt know) do not use moving parts as found in traditional hard drives and instead uses cells that are charged and data is read/written to them in this process. The quality of the NAND and the layers used will make a big difference to the durability and performance. Indeed, the Addlink A95 matches the current beast PCIe4 SSD, the Seagate Firecuda 530, with 176 layer 3D TLC NAND onboard. This is a noticeably large jump over many others that are using 96L 3D TLC NAND it is bigger than most and is a big part of the drive’s performance gains. Although the majority of modern PCIe M.2 SSD use 3D TLC NAND (avoid QLC NAND like the PLAGUE btw!), most are still at 64/96L layers or so, so this is a big jump up for the Addlink A95 SSD. Btw I have a disc version too, I have a 2TB external HDD for most PS4 games and I'm in no hurry to expand my PS5 game storage, so my point isn't that you should go out and buy an SSD or anything. More that all PS4/PS5 discs are good for is being able to sell your game second hand - they don't affect the amount of storage you need to play them

We have extensive experience of using multiple PlayStation SSD cards ourselves, in both standard and digital edition consoles. To beging with, the card needs to be an M.2 SSD and you can't just buy any model, it has to match certain criteria in terms of speed. But the M.2 connection can only handle up to 7GBps of raw data. There's also the problem that cheaper SSD's drop performance once they start to fill up (as they for example reassign 4-bit to 2-bit which increases capacity but decreases performance)... The fastest SSD in this roundup (and the fastest in the PCIe 4.0 category overall, alongside the Samsung 990 Pro), the SN850x doesn't come with a heatsink but scores highly when it comes to load times and overall value.

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As you might expect from an M.2 NVMe SSD that boldly promises performance of over 7,000MB/s sequential read (ie BIG data), the hardware specifications and architecture of the Addlink A95 are quite modern. Indeed, for all the big talk of the Seagate Firecuda 530 hardware (still currently the ‘score to beat’ PCIE Gen4 m.2 NVMe right now) being top tier, the Addlink A95 is pretty darn similar on the spec sheet! Below is how it looks: Addlink A Series A95 SSD

thing I did learn, after building PCs since the mid 90s, with an SSD you actually get what it says. 1TB said it was 1.03TB with 1.02TB available. A 1TB HDD is around 930GB.

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The rear of the box makes a point of not only highlighting that this SSD is PS5 compatible, but also it’s one of the first SSDs I have had in for review that actually features the official PS5 logo. Along with that, there is a little nod to the heatsink and rather unique (at least as far as other M.2 SSDs on the market) application of the heatsink, using a much more malleable substance (we will go into more detail later) they are keen to highlight that this does an improved job of maintaining the SSD temperature. This will be covered at the last 3rd of this review in the testing and benchmarking. In the 3DMark Storage benchmark, which measures a drive's proficiency in a variety of gaming-related tasks, the A93's's results were in the middle of a narrow range of scores in which most of our elite PCIe 4.0 SSDs have landed in testing. It comes from one of the most respected component makers in the world and also has one of the best heatsinks attached. As such, you really do just have to take the drive out of its box and slot it into the PS5 – installation really is that simple.

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