Review of the Kingston SM2280S3 / 120G SSD
The new M.2 format has brought some confusion into the ranks of fans of solid-state drives. On many motherboards and in many laptops there are connectors for disk installation, but a variety of formats and shortages on the shelves made it difficult to choose. In short, we will deal with the fact that there are M.2 discs, and at the same time we will get acquainted with the Kingston product under the cut.
So, solid-state drives in M.2 format come with SATA and PCI-E interfaces. What is the difference? Of course, in the controllers and speed. But in addition, also in the support of different motherboards. For example, owners of ASUS motherboards (on Intel Z97 and Intel X99 chipsets) will be pleasantly surprised by the fact that the ports are faster (the full potential of the interface is up to 10 Gbit / s) and only work with PCI-E lines, but work they will not all drives. Owners of the ASRock or Gigabyte motherboards will be a little easier with the choice, since both protocols (SATA and PCI-E) are supported, but at the same time slower SATA disks will not be able to reach their full potential.
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With sizes even more fun - currently there are five options:
30 mm, 42 mm, 60 mm, 80 mm, 110 mm. Most motherboards have support for all five formats, such as the ASRock Z97M OC Formula, but only three options can be installed on ultra-compact Intel NUC computers: 80, 60 and 42 mm. Well, in some laptops expansion options are limited to one or two options - 30 or 42 mm. So the upgrade will not be the fastest and easiest.
But back to real life, it has been said many times that compactness will be a key characteristic of most consumer devices in the next five years.
In this regard, I propose to consider the option of installing the M.2 SATA SSD Kingston SM2280S3 / 120G in the Intel NUC NUC5i5RYH . In fact, the version with the letter H at the end differs very favorably from the analogue in that, then you can install two disks in it - “normal” 2.5 inches and M.2. Of course, the combination option is very interesting for home theaters or just multimedia computers. On the SSD (fairly moderate cost), we put the system, on the HDD 2.5 "- we add media files.
The question of comparing the performance of HDD and SSD in this case is irrelevant, it is logical to put the question like this: “Wouldn’t M.2 SSD SATA be slower than the usual SATA disk?”
The drive is made in the format M.2 2280 (22 mm - module width, 80 mm - module length) on a blue PCB. On the board, four chips of 32 gigabytes of NAND memory labeled FA32B08UCT1-B3 are soldered on. The Nanya NT5CB128M16HP DDR3 SDRAM chip with a capacity of 256 megabytes is used as the cache.
Energy consumption data: 0.09 watts per idle; 1.02 W (maximum) when reading; 2.86 watts (maximum) when recording.
The rewrite resource is declared at 230 terabytes, provided that 1.8 volumes per day are written (216 gigabytes per day).
The disk is assembled on the Phison PS3108-S8 controller, which was widely used in the last calendar year. There were no serious complaints from users.
An interesting feature: the amount of recorded data is not displayed - this is a feature of the controller. This is not visible in the screenshot, but before testing the drive, I wrote about 400 gigabytes of data on it in total.
Linear reading is fairly smooth, with no apparent failures.
Random reading is also very worthy.
Dry residue: the disk showed performance quite comparable with full-size 2.5 "SATA SSD drives on Phison controllers. The choice of just such a drive for the system will be justified for two categories of people: owners of NUC or similar ultra-compact systems, and users who already have a fresh system on the Z97, but for some reason, an SSD disk was not immediately purchased.In the second case, it should be borne in mind that the nature will not be deceived and connecting to M.2 SATA will lead to the disconnection of any classic SATA ports.
The average cost of the device at the time of publication of the article: approximately 5600 rubles according to Yandex.Market.
So, solid-state drives in M.2 format come with SATA and PCI-E interfaces. What is the difference? Of course, in the controllers and speed. But in addition, also in the support of different motherboards. For example, owners of ASUS motherboards (on Intel Z97 and Intel X99 chipsets) will be pleasantly surprised by the fact that the ports are faster (the full potential of the interface is up to 10 Gbit / s) and only work with PCI-E lines, but work they will not all drives. Owners of the ASRock or Gigabyte motherboards will be a little easier with the choice, since both protocols (SATA and PCI-E) are supported, but at the same time slower SATA disks will not be able to reach their full potential.
')
With sizes even more fun - currently there are five options:
30 mm, 42 mm, 60 mm, 80 mm, 110 mm. Most motherboards have support for all five formats, such as the ASRock Z97M OC Formula, but only three options can be installed on ultra-compact Intel NUC computers: 80, 60 and 42 mm. Well, in some laptops expansion options are limited to one or two options - 30 or 42 mm. So the upgrade will not be the fastest and easiest.
But back to real life, it has been said many times that compactness will be a key characteristic of most consumer devices in the next five years.
In this regard, I propose to consider the option of installing the M.2 SATA SSD Kingston SM2280S3 / 120G in the Intel NUC NUC5i5RYH . In fact, the version with the letter H at the end differs very favorably from the analogue in that, then you can install two disks in it - “normal” 2.5 inches and M.2. Of course, the combination option is very interesting for home theaters or just multimedia computers. On the SSD (fairly moderate cost), we put the system, on the HDD 2.5 "- we add media files.
The question of comparing the performance of HDD and SSD in this case is irrelevant, it is logical to put the question like this: “Wouldn’t M.2 SSD SATA be slower than the usual SATA disk?”
The drive is made in the format M.2 2280 (22 mm - module width, 80 mm - module length) on a blue PCB. On the board, four chips of 32 gigabytes of NAND memory labeled FA32B08UCT1-B3 are soldered on. The Nanya NT5CB128M16HP DDR3 SDRAM chip with a capacity of 256 megabytes is used as the cache.
Energy consumption data: 0.09 watts per idle; 1.02 W (maximum) when reading; 2.86 watts (maximum) when recording.
The rewrite resource is declared at 230 terabytes, provided that 1.8 volumes per day are written (216 gigabytes per day).
The disk is assembled on the Phison PS3108-S8 controller, which was widely used in the last calendar year. There were no serious complaints from users.
An interesting feature: the amount of recorded data is not displayed - this is a feature of the controller. This is not visible in the screenshot, but before testing the drive, I wrote about 400 gigabytes of data on it in total.
Linear reading is fairly smooth, with no apparent failures.
Random reading is also very worthy.
Dry residue: the disk showed performance quite comparable with full-size 2.5 "SATA SSD drives on Phison controllers. The choice of just such a drive for the system will be justified for two categories of people: owners of NUC or similar ultra-compact systems, and users who already have a fresh system on the Z97, but for some reason, an SSD disk was not immediately purchased.In the second case, it should be borne in mind that the nature will not be deceived and connecting to M.2 SATA will lead to the disconnection of any classic SATA ports.
The average cost of the device at the time of publication of the article: approximately 5600 rubles according to Yandex.Market.
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