Cheap sata ssd, split with a friend? Put some cheese in the middle and eat as a sandwich?
6/2 update: Price increased from $290.15 to $296.58, a 2.2% increase.
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This is the the bread mate. You put some chips in between and eat it.
Why share? Put into a raid array!
No DRAM right?
Fine for games drive though.
Sucks they dont have 1tb drives…
seems like there are no reviews online for this SSD.
has anyone seen any?
You might be better off buying two Patriot P210 2TB at $152. They don’t have DRAM, but there are at least reviews and it’s from a moderately respectable (albeit entry-level) company.
Team Group is a highly respected company, best known for their RAM being some of the best around.
Could only find EX2, CX2 review.
God Dang, I remember not that long ago my 1TB SSD that was slow as balls was well over $500.. now you can get 2x 2TB SSD's for under $300!
They're still slow as balls though
IIRC, a ball travels at a speed proportional to the force applied, at least initially
With the rise of cheap SSD’s, I’d be interested to see more 2.5” NAS products from the big players, or at least enclosures that support more than two 2.5” drives.
Sure SSD isn’t best suited to long-term io, but tech innovations can go a long way once once the market picks a particular form factor and use case.
I’ll eat my shoe if 2.5” SSD’s don’t replace 3.5” form factors in five years time. Thats a solid internet promise, but I get to choose the type of bread, and the type of shoe.
We need to start seeing higher capacity drives in the 2.5 format before this happens. And we really need the price of those drives to come down.
The price is dropping 30% per year, based on CCC data for this 2TB Crucial unit: https://au.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07YD5F561
The current $80/TB rate doesn’t hit the same mark as existing HDD’s, but it certainty hits a compelling price/performance mark for those who aren’t data hoarders.
Is 3DNAND with 1M hours MBTF and 800TBW good enough in a 1TB for a NAS?
Also heat management in a plastic shell isn't ideal, they'd need to make them in an open 2.5" mount to make use of air movement
I dunno, They have being getting cheaper by upping the level of cells. QLC sucks hard enough already. I can't imagine how hard PLC and HLC would suck.
Then they release SLC and we've come full circle!
+1 for description
The failure rate review does not inspire confidence.
I wouldn't worry about that too much, Team Group is known for their RAM and produces some of the absolute best performing RAM in the world so I wouldn't be that worried about their SSDs. Always going to have some failures, reviewer needed to be less dramatic and just ask for a replacement.
Going to neg deals because ozbargainers don’t have friends……only kidding
It's true. I'm only here because I dont have friends. My only friend is the hunt; the hunt of the bargain.
Can someone explain why the comments on no DRAM are significant and why is it ok as a game drive and not as a system or storage drive?
DRAM means that reading and writing lots of small files will probably be faster as they'll just be going to and from the RAM.
Where your storage is a RAID array:
DRAM-based drives are more expensive and typically offer faster read and write performance than non-DRAM equipped drives. However, adding DRAM does not improve its reliability when used as a mirrored RAID array. The main factor that affects the reliability of a mirrored array is the underlying RAID configuration and the data protection measures used.
This is the cheese mate. You put this between the bread and eat it.