The GameStop NVMe SSD Card, or just NVMe SSD, was originally intended to be available only at 1TB and 2TB. Currently, there is also a 4TB version. These are priced at $175.74, $237.49, and $427.49 at the time of review. The 1TB price isn’t bad, being priced a bit above the Crucial P310 , the Kingston NV3 , and the Biwin Black Opal NV7400 . Considering this drive has a heatsink and TLC flash, it should be more than a match for any of those three. The price at 2TB has no competition at the moment, and the same goes for 4TB, for that matter. It’s a pretty good deal if you’re willing to go through GameStop for an SSD.
Specifications on the drive have limited availability. It’s rated for up to 7,400 / 6,400 MB/s, but no random read and write IOPS numbers are given. It should be able to hit 1 million IOPS or more, if that matters to you. The warranty should be good for the standard five years, but this is not clearly indicated, plus we don’t have TBW endurance information. This is a red flag for some, but we would expect the drive to be covered for the normal 600TBW per TB. This drive is manufactured in Taiwan, which has us thinking about Nextorage, but of course, that would have a Phison controller, which our sample does not, but it should be treated about the same. The lack of TBW and warranty information would be most concerning to heavier users who want to use this drive for workstation tasks, and we cannot recommend this drive for that use case.
With limited direct support, we have to recommend third-party utilities for drive management. We recommend CrystalDiskInfo for general drive information. For cloning and data backup, check out MultiDrive for Windows and Clonezilla for everything else. While not having official software can suck, it’s usually not a big deal in our experience. If you are someone who wants firmware updates, you might want to look elsewhere, though.
(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) Arrayed here we have an SSD controller and four NAND flash packages. The controller is the Silicon Motion SM2268XT2, which we first tested with the Kingston NV3 . It’s the counterpart to Phison’s E27T controller, which is used to good effect in drives like the Crucial P310 . These are four-channel, DRAM-less controllers capable of making the most of a PCIe 4.0 M.2 slot. Generally speaking, the GameStop SSD should be a good compromise if you’re shooting between higher-end DRAM-equipped drives and low-end drives.
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/gamestop-nvme-ssd-2tb-ssd-review#main
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