Review on GIGABYTE AORUS NVMe Gen4 M.2 1TB Gaming SSD: High Performance PCI-Express 4.0 with Copper Heat Spreader, Toshiba 3D NAND & DDR Cache Buffer by Donald Marin

Update: I've been using it for about 7 months and decided to try the Crystal Mark. Spring. the numbers speak for themselves. Bought with my Aorus x570 Elite. (So yes the 4th gen can be used) Value for money is terrible, it doesn't make you a better player, but it's really easy to install. I have a Crucial MX500 1TB SATA SSD and I can't see any difference when downloading games. So SATA has become a gaming library as there is no difference in performance. Transferring large files is another story, it's fast and the Acronis software that came with my Crucial SSD worked to clone my OS onto it. It boots very quickly into Windows. My bios gives me about 3 seconds to erase to get into bios, after that I'm basically in windows. No waiting time. I used to wait maybe 15-20 seconds until I was fully into Windows. Now it's 8 seconds. Every other computer I use seems to be broken because of this. If you have a specific use case for it and you have the cash, this is a great M.2. I only bought it because I have an X570 board and what's the point of having one of these boards if you don't want to use PCIe Gen 4? I could buy the 500GB version for my OS, move my games library to that 1TB, and use my Crucial SSD as the media folder.