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No need for the intro. One of the top tier SSDs. Suitable for PS5.
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Why is OzBargain so obsessed with write endurance? i doubt anyone here will be exceeded the write endurance within the warranty period, its not a measure of how much you can write to the drive, its just a limit for the warranty so you can't do something stupid and get a replacement
I want my HDD/SSD last well after warranty expires. It's not an expendable, you know. TBW and MTBF exceed any possible warranty time because they're not just about the warranty but about reliability.
It's just like saying "why worry about cars' safety rating, are you planning to get in a crash?" Shit happens and if one disk is more durable than others then why not?
But there is no standard for measuring drive endurance and no one independantly does it, you aren't picking a safer car, you are picking a car with a 5 year 1,000,000km warranty over 5 years 750,00km.
i see no one here ever talking about things that actually matter, sustained read/write, DRAM/Cache size, random read/writes all things that actually make a difference when you use the drive
i see no one here ever talking about things that actually matter, sustained read/write, DRAM/Cache size, random read/writes
I see it all the time. People write "no DRAM" in description, for example.
I want my HDD/SSD last well after warranty expires. It's not an expendable, you know.
TBW has nothing to do with this. If you write 150TB in the next 5 years then it doesn't matter one jot whether you choose a drive with 500TBW or 2500TBW.
not just about the warranty but about reliability.
Nope, there's absolutely no data that points to higher TBW drives being more reliable - it's not the TB written that makes drives die…
if one disk is more durable
TBW is not a measure of durability.
For 99% of people using larger drives it shouldn't be the primary consideration.
But actually depends on how they use the drive. Bitlocker encryption\raid\swap files\temp folders, these can all increase writes.
Nothing special, but my 2 x Samsung 500 GBs are both down to 70% life remaining after 2 years.
Hindsight would have gone for drives with higher write endurance, but yes will likely last another 2 years and well they will surely be too SMALL anyway!!!
I also have 2 x INTEL SSDSC2KB960G8, these are just as old but still at 98% life left and frigging use these for all the hard work. Talk about extremes.
my 2 x Samsung 500 GBs are both down to 70% life remaining after 2 years.
Are they 980 Pro ? There's a known issue about accelerated wear, and a firmware update to stop it …
I care about it because I've got machines that sit there writing upwards ten of megs a second to their SSD, all day every day.
If you want to run disk-intensive workloads like databases, caches, or use SSD for swap it starts to become a concern how many program-erase cycles the NAND is good for.
The drive tracks how much writes it can reliably continue to accept.
Once those cycles run out the SSD is done for, either locking itself into a read-only recovery mode (the ideal and expected case) or something less pleasant if they did a poor job on writing the firmware.
I do agree that it is much less of a concern for a majority of users; and that is reflected by the manufacturers selling SSDs with lower endurance ratings aimed at those users.
It's just that not everyone has as light a workload as "emails, facebook, youtube, fortnite".
Yes of course there's edge cases that will write way more than usual to a drive - but they're edge cases, they don't apply to 99.9% of OzBargain users, so bringing them up in the comments isn't really contributing anything useful (and the specialists who need real write endurance already know that they need it).
You can write 100GB per day, every single day, for a whole decade, and that's only 365TB. The endurance numbers are enormous.
Great price! Can anyone recommend a quality heatsink to pair with this for PS5?
Edit: should have looked down the page, can see this is well rated and frequently bought with this drive. https://amzn.asia/d/5XfRs8k
EK-M.2 heatsink is compatible with PS5 & about $20.
get the sabrent heatsink… replaces the m2 slot lid, so the the ps5 fan directly cools it.
Thanks for the info, didn't realise that.
Does this have any known issues? Seems like every other SSD these days has some technical issues (Samsung mainly to be fair).
It was a software issue for the Samsung 980 Pro 2TB drives & only those manufactured in 2021.
And 990 Pro, fixed with a recent firmware update. This is becoming all too common for Samsung to the point where I'd rather look elsewhere unless desperate.
I have issues with this SSD, it just crashed my gaming session every time it gets intense. But got fixed after updating the firmware though.
Seems the Amazon page is broken. Cannot add it to cart. :(
Price back to "normal" now.
Why the quotation marks? $564 is a steal!
Indeed. What was I thinking. Off to buy one now!
Classic case of buy now and convince myself I'll cancel later.
I keep doing that with my Amazon USA P5 Plus order because it's just sitting unshipped for days >:(
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/seagate-firecuda-530-m2…
2,550 TB for endurance is pretty insane, definitely overall top tier amongst the 990/980 pro, SN850x and fury renegade