Transcend SSD230S 4TB 2.5” SATA SSD $306.11 Delivered @ Amazon Germany via AU

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TLC + DRAM + 2240 TBW + 5 Year Warranty

Flash Type: 3D NAND flash
DRAM Cache: Yes
Sequential Read/Write (CrystalDiskMark): up to 560/520 MB/s
4K Random Read/Write (IOmeter): up to 90,000/85,000 IOPS
Terabytes Written (TBW): 2,240 TBW
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF): 2,000,000 hour(s)
Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD): 0.3 (5 yrs)
Warranty: Five-year Limited Warranty

https://www.transcend-info.com/Products/No-756

Should be using Silicon Motion controller and Micron TLC NAND, similar to MX500

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  kenmizuki on 06/05/2023 - 15:59

  +1

  5 Year Warranty?
  does it have international Warranty ?

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  craving on 06/05/2023 - 17:03

  +1

  A really good price. This is all the space I'll ever need.

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  Dreamcazman on 06/05/2023 - 19:44

  +1

  Tempting, I've been looking for a deal on 4TB SSDs, I need to replace the old HDDs in my desktop.

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  dazzles on 07/05/2023 - 20:07

  Generally speaking most PC's have a M.2 slot and I don't see why you would buy a $300+ ssd for a PC that didn't (it would have to be a pretty outdated system)? Most people would be better off buying a Crucial P3 4TB for ~$312. No dram cache but whatevs? I would argue the benefits of up to 3500mb/s sequential would outweigh the benefits of a dram cache.

  Keen to hear the opinion of others on this.

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    SmoothCactus on 07/05/2023 - 20:28

    +3

    “ No dram cache but whatevs?”

    How does having 3500 sequential be of any use without dram cache??? Not to mention if you’re spending $300 id hope that this drive goes with you to multiple builds. Also 800tbw compared to 2200tbw is going to make a difference over many years despite ozbargains insistence tbw doesn’t matter.

    It’s not really a whatevs, it’sa big deal for most users?

    That aside, I think these drives are for people that need storage faster than an ssd but don’t need nvme speeds and/or don’t have the remaining slots. Most games don’t, and I mean the statistical majority of games don’t benefit much beyond sata ssd speeds with load times, and that’s only starting to change recently with direct storage and devs actually utilising hardware.

    In my case all my nvme slots are used up in my itx system so this is good for a game and media drive.

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      Nom on 08/05/2023 - 00:38

      +2

      Also 800tbw compared to 2200tbw is going to make a difference over many years

      It is ? What difference will it make ?

      The drive will be dead long before you get anywhere close to 800TBW. You just don't need to care about this number unless you have some very specific use case.

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      JerraJones on 08/05/2023 - 01:56

      +2

      It’s not really a whatevs, it’sa big deal for most users?

      In what world is 450gb/day written for 5 straight years something that's for 'most users'? Even RED cameras use off the shelf mx500s which have lower tbw than this (which they bundle with proprietary software to make you pay exorbitant prices for but that's another story). You're gonna get a call from your ISP if you constantly download that much lol since 'unlimited internet' comes with a 'within reason' caveat.

      I do agree that sata ssds are still useful since m.2 slots are limited, especially on more budget boards.

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    DmytroP on 07/05/2023 - 20:41

    +2

    It's useful when you'd like to add more storage and all m.2 and PCI-e slots are already used.

    This one would be about 5x faster if your usage includes copying large amounts of data to the drive (in my case it was moving data to SSD from HDD for temporary faster random access, it took many hours with the QLC drive), with the SATA TLC SSD the speed may stay close to 500MB/s while Crucial P3 would be even much slower than HDD at around 100MB/s.

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    Nom on 08/05/2023 - 00:36

    +1

    There's generally more SATA ports available than M.2 ports - it's as simple as that.
    Obviously you buy SATA when you need SATA and you buy M.2 when you need M.2 🤷🏼‍♂️

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    JerraJones on 08/05/2023 - 02:01

    As others have said, limited slots. Budget boards don't come with that many m.2 slots while even cheap boards have 6+ sata 3 ports.

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  ozbdine on 12/05/2023 - 10:30

  Now $292.22