Was shopping around for the 2TB version and came across this.
Static Ice only shows $306 as the cheapest.
Plus the cash back of $35 if purchased before 31st of August, this one's a good pick up.
$6.00 delivery to me (Melbourne Metro).
Samsung SSD QVO 2TB - $288 + Postage (Free Pickup) & $35 Samsung Cashback @ Online Computer
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Found this comment:
"Right now there is exactly zero reason to choose it over the EVO. In order to compete with it favorably the QVO needs to be at least 25% cheaper to offset the disadvantages."very subjective opinion. If going for an EVO forces you from 2TB to 1TB then i'd say the QVO is worth it, it really just depends on your budget. Their performance is comparable (Evo about 10% better but thats not much of a gap) and the main downside is the TBW. However a 2TB QVO will require you to write 100GB a day to kill it within 20 years and most SSDs actually stay alive a lot longer than their rated for, its just sort of a minimum.
It's a reference to the QLC memory they use for these drives. Cheaper, but slower and less durable.
For long read/writes it'll slow down to HDD speeds. EVO is superior in every way except price.
for anyone wondering what long writes means it has an 80GB cache. so basically anything over that (Although the first 80GB will still be fast so if its like a 100GB write it will be fast for 80GB and then slow down for the last 20) The cache will also empty in a few minutes and will speed back up to full speed for the next 80GB once its done so, so if you do have to copy very very large amount of data it won't be slow the entire time either.
If you are doing constant sequential writes then speeds will never recover.
realistically though almost no average user will ever have an issue with the 80GB SLC cache though. If you are doing professional workloads then you will likely be going for a NVME/pro drive anyway.
i have both an 850 evo and an 860 qvo and they aren't any different in performance to me under my usage.
@neferseki: You were the one that mentioned moving large amounts of data to the drive though. You also said the cache will empty in a few mins and speed back up and that it won't be slow the entire time which is not what happens.
@neferseki: Please stop quoting the 80GB SLC cache size. The SLC cache reduces with available free space. The guaranteed minimum size is only 6GB. https://www.anandtech.com/show/13633/the-samsung-860-qvo-ssd…
@alvian: the intelligent 72GB of cache disappears when there is like 10-15% capacity left, but at that point im not sure how many large writes you would be doing when theres no space left for it anyway. Anyway I stand by my initial point, if you have to choose between a 2TB QVO vs a 1TB evo specifically because of price i'd choose the qvo. If the prices are close then choose the evo or even mx500.
im not sure how many large writes you would be doing when theres no space left for it anyway
15% of 2TB is 300GB. That's still more free space than the common 250GB class SSD and allows for plenty more large writes than you implied.
@alvian: Sure but im talking about a regular user. I must confess the i can count amount of times i tried to copy anything larger than 50GB on my fingers in the past 20 years. Let alone you actually need to be copying from something that has a very high transfer speed as well like another fast SSD as if you are copying from a HDD then the read speed of that HDD becomes a factor. I dunno everyone just seems to make out like QLC stuff is useless and scares people away from it even though most regular users probably will never notice. But its whatever everyone just spend the extra $80-90 on an mx500 instead.
QVO what happened to EVO?