Question My hard-drive corrupted & replaced - is this a good alternative?

[TheKiltedScot]

Hello, my PC Tower had to be sent to PC Specialist because something was corrupted in the hardware. Apparently, it was the harddrive that my monitor kept booting up to the BIOS system.

I just got an email from them today notifying me that they've replaced the component with another harddrive entirely, and I want to know if the one they have replaced is just as good or better?

My original harddrive was a 512GB PCS PCIe M.2 SSD (2200 MB/R, 1500 MB/W)

and it was replaced with a SOLIDIGM P41+ GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 3500MB/sR, 1625MB/sW)

I don't know the terminology and what all the numbers mean, so I was hoping someone could explain please?

 

[drea.drechsler]

Hello, my PC Tower had to be sent to PC Specialist because something was corrupted in the hardware. Apparently, it was the harddrive that my monitor kept booting up to the BIOS system.

I just got an email from them today notifying me that they've replaced the component with another harddrive entirely, and I want to know if the one they have replaced is just as good or better?

My original harddrive was a 512GB PCS PCIe M.2 SSD (2200 MB/R, 1500 MB/W)

and it was replaced with a SOLIDIGM P41+ GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 3500MB/sR, 1625MB/sW)

I don't know the terminology and what all the numbers mean, so I was hoping someone could explain please?

You did not have a hard drive that failed, what you had was a special kind of SSD (Solid State Drive) called an NVME.

They replaced it with a Solidigm P41+ NVME drive: read a review of it here:
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/solidigm-p41-plus-ssd-review/3

What you had was a generic (unbranded) NVME of 512GB storage capacity. They did not indicate what capacity your replacement is so you should ask them. If not too late I'd suggest having them put in 1TB (1000GB) or even 2TB (2000GB) capacity drive since storage prices are pretty low right now.

The other numbers are basically read and write speed capabilities that shows your new one to be much better but only if operated in Gen 4 mode. But if both your motherboard and CPU are not also Gen 4 capable then it will use whatever generation it is capable of: maybe Gen 3, maybe even Gen 2. In which case it might operate at similar read/write speed of the drive it replaces. It's highly unlikely you would notice any difference though due to the manner Windows typically accesses files.

 

[geofelt]

You had a SSD,(Solid State Drive) not a hard drive.
That is a good thing.
Performance of either is different but you will not notice.
Both drives are not considered as high quality units like Samsung or Intel.