This is the cheapest I've ever seen this drive after cashback.
This is a QLC SSD so good for replacing a spinning drive as bulk storage or ok as an everyday drive for non demanding users. 3 Year / 1440 TBW warranty and up to 78 GB of TurboWrite buffer (write performance is decent as long as you don't want to write more than that at once / fill the drive).
Ah bugger, SFA difference but $4 less cashback.
I just wish it was NVME…..I've long gone away from SATA.
It's more a 'I don't want spinning rust' in my PC kind of drive rather than an OS alternative.
qlc….emmmm consider about yout data's safety, and speed as well (86/70 qvo still has serious speed drop issue)
After you throw 78 GB at it it slows down to 160 MB/s until it clears the cache. I just threw 2 TB at one a couple of nights ago in one hit. Granted it's probably a little slower for that sort of thing, it's fine for reading back though, way faster than a spinning disk, especially for random IO. 1440 TBW on this one, don't use it to record video or cache on a NAS, but most people will have a hard time killing them, I'm a pretty heavy user and have a couple of them a few years old, and they're both fine.
It's worth noting as well the 2 & 4TB versions have twice the cache of the 1 TB version. I'd not suggest anyone bother with the 1 TB version because it's not cheap enough to replace the EVO or NVME as options. Where as this is both faster than the 1 TB version and has a different use case (bulk storage).
QLC'S warranty is always like 1/2 of TLC's, which could indicate that QLC's life is like 1/2 than TLC, and now that WD black HHD can do 220mb/s stably and only $315+9.9 for 14TB without any speeddrop issue, what is the advantage of QLC compared with both TLC or HHD? (Also MX500 is $128/TB now who's going to pick QLC)
Obviously TLC is better, this is just really cheap. Random IOPS is bucket loads faster on an SSD than a hard drive, and you can put this in an external case for a few bucks and use it with a laptop, or in a laptop.
There's a 1440 TB warranty on this one. Unless you're being silly it's fine. I'd love SLC too, but I don't want to pay that price and I don't always want the noise / heat / power usage / low IOPS of a hard drive.
This is a great drive for things like a photo collection where the write speed is almost always going to be 500 MB/s + and the read speed the same. Most people won't fill the turbowrite cache in a single session and so will never see speeds less than twice as fast as a spinning disk, even with low IOPS demands. All with way more IOPS than a hard drive and cheaper than an MX500 with more storage density and more than twice the TBW warranty of the highest storage MX500.
I've got SLC drives, TLC drives, QLC drives, Optane, and dozens and dozens of spinning disks. This drive is still something that is the best for my (and some people's) use cases. It's not for everyone. There's still reasons to buy all the other types for different use cases. If you're worried about the TBW warranty of this drive you probably shouldn't be using TLC either.
@[Deactivated]: TLC's life is twice as long as QLC's. I mean 5-6 year use and upgrading then is fair enough, while QLC is like 1/2. Let's do a math question: you've got $450 to buy drives. One is 4TB with 2-4 year maximum use with 4tb, would have speeddrop issue everytime you use up its 78gb slc cache (which is easy to achieve since a 4K bluray film is 60-70GB or a game like GTA5 is 80GB), the other is 2TB with 5-6 year use for $250, might have speeddrop after warranty is over but it would seldom happen in its warranty period. With another $200 you can buy a 8TB helium HHD which would never have any speed drop issue and very stable for 15-20 years.
@johangules: Let's do a reading question instead, I've never said this was the best for all circumstances, I've come up with plenty where it is better than all the options you've put forward as alternatives. You can come up with as many as you like where it isn't it doesn't change anything. I've already said other solutions are better for those.
Let me know how you're going to stuff the 8TB helium drive into your laptop and use it to catalogue a photo collection.
I store my large video files on spinning disks. I store my photos on SSDs. Because they're both better for that purpose. This drive stores 1440 TB. Flash memory life is based on writes. If you're just reading, SLC, QLC, TLC makes no difference. In my case, most of the time, the data goes onto the drive, then it never leaves. So of the 1440 TBW, that's 4 TB used. And…… 1436 TBW remaining. In 5 years, 10 years, 15 years….
1440 TB takes serious work to use up even in 6 years. That would be roughly filling this drive completely every week. You can do that, absolutely, but 99.99% of people will not do that. They're the target market. If you had a 1 TB drive, that's an easier prospect because it has 1/4 the flash, so you could absolutely hammer it by using it improperly. But even someone putting Blu Rays and games on it is going to have a hard time watching them and playing them fast enough to wear this drive out. (If you're not watching them and playing them, then by all means, use a spinning hard drive, they don't use any power when off).
@[Deactivated]: then put 2x2TB TLC MX500 in your laptop for only $500 with 2880 TBW in total, no speed drop longer warranty ensurance, is QLC really a deal now?
@johangules: Not that many laptops with 2 bays. There's a cost to using a port as well. And 2 x 2TB TLC MX500's both cost more and actually only have 700 TBW each. so less warranty. Samsung trusts their QLC and controller more… So, this is cheaper, and has no actual disadvantages for most people's use cases, and more TBW warranty than your TLC option. Despite the fact that yes, technically, TLC is better, but then so is MLC and SLC and optane. So what?
Thanks to everyone that purchased one. I really didn't need another SSD, lol
I have bought much today that I didn't need. Including this. It's a disease.
Ripper deal I think I got the last one! Thanks for sharing!!
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It's actually the 870 QVO. :)