SSD for PBP

[User 11436]

Hi, I know the bandwidth is beyond the PBP's upper limit of around 1.5GB/s, but has anyone considered the Intel 760p NVMe SSDs?

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/...eries.html

Looking at the 512GB drive, power draw is stated as 25mW while Idle, and 50mW while active. Sounds almost perfect. Comes in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1024GB and 2048GB variants, priced from $57--$399.

They look good. Wish they had specified the burst power draw.

It does appear that the use one of the NVME lower power settings. We, (us Pinebook Pro owners that use NVMEs), may have to investigate how to enable lower power settings at boot. May cost a little performance, but the benefits will likely outweigh the cost. (Reduced heat and increased battery life.)

Of course, now I have to re-visit my avoidance of Intel products, (due to the massive CPU security problems that they created in their need to produce faster CPUs than their competition).

Having read this and looked at this, I'm beginning to reconsider. I hadn't appreciated the low power states would be different from normal usage on the PBP. I think I need to do a bit more research before committing to buy anything.

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Having read back through the forum posts I've decided to go for the Adata XPG SX8200 Pro. Someone previously posted this review:

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ada...955-2.html

It appears to offer very good performance at a low power draw.

• Max power draw = 4.05W
  
• Average power draw = 1.93W
  
• Idle power draw = 0.552W (ASPM/LPM disabled)