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P**.
This is without question the best drive I've ever owned
Received my drive and immediately cloned my existing HP Envy drive to it. Installed the drive in my system and was immediately impressed with how fast my system booted. Overall system performance has gone way up, video performance incredible no blips or delays. Their advertising is correct, this is the only "intelligent" SSD available today in the market.
S**W
Software holding this back from being amazing
The install went the same as any other M.2 drive, with the only extra step being a Windows update to get the drivers needed for the AI component. The drive itself worked great out of the box and is extremely responsive. The Fusion software reports the drive status well (though with it running, my monitors stayed awake?).I immediately started on using the drive for its intended purpose: an extended gaming drive. I fired up the provided disk copy tool and moved one of my drive's contents over (I will be removing that drive), and then attempted to extend the FuzeDrive with my other gaming drive. I started up FusionX to do that, and after many attempts with some unhelpful errors and next to no documentation for it, I wiped the FuzeDrive, deleted the partition and was finally able to create the virtual disk with the two drives.Well... almost. Half way through the process, the program threw up a generic failure error and closed. I now had two drives with no partitions, and a virtual drive with one active and one inactive partition. Try as I might, I could not uncouple the two partitions using FusionX. So I had to delete the virtual partition, which resulted in me losing the entire contents of the existing drive. To be fair, they do have warnings about things not going properly and to back up all your data. Ultimately, I believe the issue was that a GPT record was stopping the partitions from being able to be fully sized and the software didn't know how to handle it.Now with two completely wiped drives, FusionX was able to create the virtual drive with no problems. In Disk Manager, I now have two drives with no partitions, and a virtual drive at the size of the two disks. Windows Explorer only lists the one drive. It's a little strange, but I'm not familiar with virtual drives so that's probably normal.My setup is the FuzeDrive (Fast) extended to a Seagate FireCuda Hybrid HDD (Slow). I assume the data on the virtual disk is similar in volatility as a Raid 0 setup, so there is some long-term concern. I don't know if I always need the FusionX software running so I keep it open. (Another lacking documentation problem..) It displays "Forwarded" and "Queued" data in the task bar, which I don't know if I should care about.I tried to benchmark the virtual disk with CrystalDiskMark but it couldn't see the virtual drive. I then fired up AS SSD benchmark and that worked. It reported sequential reads of ~3000mb/s and writes of ~2800mb/s. This is slightly less than the advertised speed, but that could be due to either the virtual drive and/or the fact that it's paired up with an HDD. No worries there.Final verdict: If you buy this drive to be used independently, it's great. It can be used as a boot drive and you'll have great performance and advertised longevity. As of the time of writing this review, it can't be used as an extended boot drive, but it's "coming soon". If you're purchasing it for a fresh build or are extending empty drives, you'll have minimal issues getting set up. If the software improves dramatically, even extending an existing drive should be easy, but right now it's rough.
T**N
Is so fast ! Well made
Great item!
K**H
Tiered storage made easy.
This drive is amazing. I attached it to an 8TB HDD and after transferring nearly 1TB I never saw my write speeds drop below 2.5GB/s.I'll update if I notice a change after 2tbs of space in use.
A**R
Will buy this again!
Easy to install and configures automatically. Works great, just as advertised. Support team answered my question right away.
S**E
Great Hybrid Drive
Fast SSD and can link to a slower regular hard drive for ai controlled most common used files to be stored on fast loading cache
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