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Hi Guys,
Thanks for the tremendous support for our last 1TB QVO Post. Also thank Jase2801 for posting it for us.
The ebay 10% off is still on, with a different coupon code: P10LESS
Samsung 860 QVO 1TB SATA III 2.5 SSD $156.60 + $5 Delivery @ Budget PC eBay
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AssociatedBPC Technology @ BPC Technology on 23/02/2019 - 14:28 ebay.com.au (380 clicks)
Last edited 25/02/2019 - 01:36 by 3 other users
Last edited 25/02/2019 - 01:36 by 3 other users
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Done Bro ;)
No eBay Plus free shipping. It seems like the real RRP is around $160 so this is not really a deal.
Are these any good?
Personally, I don't like this trend towards slow write TLC/QLC flash paired with a small amount of fast write SLC flash.
Large file transfers will eventually exhaust the fast write SLC cache, and then you're stuck in slow town for the rest of the copy. The same trick is used on some USB3.0 sticks too, so the rated peak write speed become irrelevant when you're using the drive to move large amounts of data around.
Personally, I would pay the extra for a non-QVO drive, but for upgrading your grandma's pc, its probably still more than adequate.
^this, It's really only about $40 more for the 860 EVO 1TB at MSY
Or $30 more at Futu Online eBay
As with the other two QLC drives we've tested, the important takeaway is that the use of QLC NAND does not have a revolutionary impact on the final product. The 860 QVO is still suitable for general-purpose consumer storage duty. It is slower than the 860 EVO, but the QVO is far from the slowest SATA SSD we've tested. Thanks to a combination of SLC caching and the SATA link bottleneck, the 860 QVO's behavior is often indistinguishable from other SATA SSDs. Based on benchmark results alone, it would be difficult to conclusively identify the QVO as a QLC-based drive, rather than just a relatively slow TLC drive. The true giveaways are the sustained write performance after the SLC cache is full, and the amount of idle time required for the drive to recover after using up its write cache. Neither of those scenarios are a common occurrence during typical consumer usage.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13633/the-samsung-860-qvo-ssd…
The only real impact of QLC is I guess, the reduced production cost but sadly Samsung isn't passing the cost savings yet to consumers, as it's only a tiny bit cheaper than TLC. Might have to wait till it drops further before I finally cave and get a Qvo drive.
@Djii1
The true giveaways are the sustained write performance after the SLC cache is full, and the amount of idle time required for the drive to recover after using up its write cache. Neither of those scenarios are a common occurrence during typical consumer usage.
Anandtech is right - and this is exactly the point I was trying to make. The only thing I take issue with, is their assessment of "typical consumer usage" (my translation = grandma pc) as I personally have run into write cache shortages often enough on TLC drives to be very wary of QVO now.
They also mentioned another point I had forgotten - that the SLC caching tricks used by MLC/QLC, often require large amounts of free storage on the SSD. In some cases, once they fill up, the drives peak write performance will decrease.
I posted the same ssd yesterday for $159.20 which is cheaper than this after factoring in $5 shipping cost. The listing is not an eBay Plus item so you can't get free shipping.
Price in title please
Edit: refreshed!