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Gaylawd I bought a 4TB G70 without much research because it was one of the least expensive DRAM drives. Although, the design has presented some challenges discussed here, I still think it is a great value. I have not been able to test the limits of it yet as I don't have any PCIe 4 hardware. I was planning on using it with my Mac Mini M4 for a large image dedupe/categorization project but did not realize Apple caps USB4 speeds to ~3mbps. The drive's thermals also immediately presented a problem connected via USB to the Mac because of how MacOS polls USB devices it does not let the drive fully power down keeping the Innogrit chip at a higher draw and therefore always a higher temp. My own testing using driveDX shows this thermal baseline isn't a problem but it is clearly not ideal or healthy long term for the drive. According to Gemini, MacOS even does this while "asleep" so I would not recommend this drive at all as a permanent external connected drive for a Mac. I did transfer a large set of files using the Mac and even under the capped threshold temps rose a good bit and fast. I'm using a brand new actively ventilated Asus ProArt PA40SU enclosure but even it's fan is not enough to cool the controller adequately–it is a quite small & slick enclosure BTW so it can only do do much. My simple workaround is pointing a 4" mini desk fan directly into the enclosure which worked a treat and cooled it right off. I've also tested it transferring on some legacy Win10 PCs using USB 3.0 and had minimal heat build up. So I would definitely say this drive is best suited for a workstation install or a NAS where you can have a lot of active ventilation. Definitely not a laptop (except maybe workstation class like a Z-Book) and probably not a Mini PC either unless it's also a Workstation class with a ton of air flow. I bought a Sabrent PCIe 4 adapter enclosure that has great heat sink properties but haven't tested it yet. However that enclosure is large so would need to go into a desktop rig. If you've got adequate ventilation space, and I 100% agree you need to add a heat sink (aftermarket would be fine you don't need the TF one), this is a great affordable performance drive with DRAM. But if you're space constrained, don't risk overheating and damaging surrounding components because your speed will get immediately throttled anyway. I'm saving this for install in my future PCIe 4 WS tower acquisition, especially one that will have enterprise power management capability like the HP Z2 which can immediately power down the chip when not actively read/write occurring–not all motherboards can do that BTW. Meanwhile it works well enough in the Asus enclosure for general purposes, I'm just not leaving it connected to anything unless being used. Reply
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