Review on 💾 XPG S40G 2TB RGB 3D NAND PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe 1.3 M.2 2280 SSD (AS40G-2TT-C) by Bali Bali ᠌

Name: 💾 XPG S40G 2TB RGB 3D NAND PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe 1.3 M.2 2280 SSD (AS40G-2TT-C)
Item: 💾 XPG S40G 2TB RGB 3D NAND PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe 1.3 M.2 2280 SSD (AS40G-2TT-C)
Rating: 5

November 15, 2022

Great value for money, one of the best offers.

I ideally fit into the Dell G15 5511 SE laptop, I was afraid that it wouldn’t fit exactly in height, but the case of the laptop is quite spacious, it seems that the drive would fit even higher. The backlight of the disk is now visible through the ethernet port and headphone jack. If there was a disk with similar parameters without backlighting, of course, I would take it, but at a discount - this one will do just fine :)
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Pros

Works really fast, almost exactly as stated on the package. I conducted tests immediately after purchase, with reading-writing blocks of 10 mebibytes and gibibytes in size, with a total volume of 10 tebibytes and 100 tebibytes, respectively. The recording schedule is even, the speed is good, I did not conduct specific stress tests, because. in everyday use, in any case, I will not run into the limits of the possibility of an SLC cache, and throttling in temperature. When monitoring the latter, it turned out that the disk feels quite normal inside the laptop: the temperature is always in the range of 47-50 degrees.

Cons

A very indistinct "radiator" between the two light diffusers on the sides. They protrude very strongly above the thin heatsink plate, and additional dispersion fins could have been placed at the same height, it would have looked more solid, and would have removed an extra couple of degrees additionally.