Was searching for large capacity SSDs and stumbled across this external 4TB SSD, 49% off the usual price of $1,299.00.
$164/TB, so still not cheap, but definitely a nice discount.
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Pretty sure you’re confusing the slower 1050MB/s model.
Doubt it since that shows up as AU$609.
https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/241169/100790/afdfc85f…
Any reason why these SSDs are ridculously expensive? Protection against drops or something??
Capacity + speed. You're always paying a premium for the highest capacity + fastest speeds in any storage medium. Even if I don't need it myself I'm always happy to see higher capacity and faster speed storage get introduced because it puts downward pressure on prices of existing drives/cards.
This price is too much unless maybe you want some super durable cover.
This seems reasonable but slower.
Crucial-4TB-Portable-SSD X8
Honestly you can find a faster NVME than either of these for around 400-450 like this and buy a NVME - USB adapter for like 20-50.
Personally, I'd go with a very popular NVME + a USB adaptor for reliability.
That’s not the same though. The SSD you linked is a DRAM-less QLC drive, so those write speeds will plummet very quickly once you start using the drive.
Agreed, bad example. I'd never bought a QLC drive and only 1/5 of my NVMEs are DRAM-less. For sequential access (mostly likely use case for externals), being DRAM-less is not a big issue.
I'd still go with 2x popular 2TB TLCs unless I absolutely need a single drive of 4TB at these prices.
Not everyone wants a home baked solution. Warranties can be easier too.
Branded.
Get m.2 drives.. like sabrent or samsung 980 pro.
Branded.
Get m.2 drives.. like [brand] or [other brand].
Prob meant "more consumer friendly"
According to my own experience, the US or UK deal in Amazon is not reliable being not delivered on promised time. If the price goes up they will never ship and it never reaches you.
But it may be only helpful for price beats in other store, although its not easy to convince for US or UK offers.
I have this and whilst it's expensive, it's amazingly fast and feels like it would take a beating if I ever subjected it to that kind of abuse.
I look forward to the day that these are in the $120 price range, and also in larger capacity (yes, I know larger capacity 2.5" drives already exist).
$164/GB？Time checked,its 2023
Per TB.. Typo
Not cheap,but might be special needs one
I have several of these 4TB drives, are they’re excellent.
That RRP is a joke
Apple would charge $10,000 if they made a 4tb drive.
It's not a real RRP, people posting this stuff know it's not real but continue to make out it is, especially with Amazon products.
It continues to weird me out.
This is the pricing for the last 60 days on Amazon
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It is super fast. On my M1 MBP 14” it’s at about 700mb/s and that’s without the capacity to get up to the 2000mb/s. In contrast, it’s at about 240mb/s for my other desktop hard drives. I bought it for portability, capacity, and speed. Was going to get the older 1050mb/s model due to this version not being capable of getting to 2000mb/s on my computer, but saw this on Amazon and got Officeworks to price beat it and it ended up close to the price of the older one (but with much better resale value).
Read and write speeds will never get to their advertised speeds. There is no chance your ssd will hit 2000mb/s. Its just special lab/theoretical speeds.
Just remember that SSD storage is not good for archival purposes. If you are not regularly using the drive you run the risk of data loss/corruption.
What's better
Magnetic tape.
But you probably don't have a drive for those so use a regular HDD and store it correctly.
Cloud backup is also cheap so keep a copy of your valuable data there too.
I had no idea. I definitely have SSD archival storage that I haven't touch for a few years. I assumed no moving parts/ size that they're better than older HDD for storage.
Rabbit hole!
You possibly just saved my data.
@stickymoo: I use (BD M-Disk s) [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC] for my most important data. I think it's the most reliable non-commercial grade archival form.
But they are write-once and somewhat expensive per GB.
@stickymoo: Get them powered up and hopefully the data on them is still good.
That also applies to any solid state stage storage, not just SSDs.
I have my archival data in RAID-0 and RAID-5 HDDs..
Will be moving everything to RAID-0 HDDs once I receive my 14TB disk.
@spaceflight
Do you think the SSDs have a background refresh if they are kept powered? Or a way to force a refresh every year or so.
I have my archival data in RAID-0 and RAID-5 HDDs..
Will be moving everything to RAID-0 HDDs once I receive my 14TB disk.
Why?
There is no parity / fault tolerance in RAID 0. If you lose 1 drive then you lose your entire array.
RAID 5 offers you N-1 fault tolerance.
Do you think the SSDs have a background refresh if they are kept powered?
Yes they do, the SSD controller will handle moving data around on the drive to ensure that the drive remains utilised.
Why are you comparing the top of the line Extreme Pro vs the bottom of the barrel qlc P3?
Lol cheaper ssd and separate enclosure, vs high end ssd with integrated enclosure. Ofc it will be cheaper.
Sure it’s expensive, but it’s fast, sealed and rugged. It might not be for you but there’s plenty of people (eg. creative professionals) who value those things in a portable ssd. If you’re questioning the price of this you’re not in the target market for this SSD.
It is also the cheapest price right now so that’s a bargain in my books and not worthy of a neg imo
Spot on. I make tv commercials for a living, and these drives pay for themselves within a few video shoots. Sitting around with a camera operator at the end of the day for an extra hour while the 2TB of footage copies over is expensive! So the faster the drive, the faster we all go home, and the less overtime we pay.
We also use Samsung T7 drives, but they’re about half the speed of this model.
i just find it funny how it has usb-a when those max out at 10gb/s and not to mention overhead and also no one buys these for sequential q8t1 r/w use.
so at the end of the day you're better off getting like a p3 + enclosure for majority of people
Its a C drive that comes with both a C-C and C-A cable. Are you high or something?
Why the random negative vote?
If that idiot can come up with a better deal for the same specification product - by all means do so.
Out of interest…. What sort of use scenario is applicable to this ssd?
Guys who make tv ads apparently
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