Western Digital Green SN350 960GB PCIe Gen 3 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD $80.78 (2 For $153.48) Delivered @ Amazon US via AU

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Look Up on 20/03/2024 - 20:39 amazon.com.au (261 clicks)
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Amazon clearing out the original 960GB model
Compared to the current 1TB QLC model, this uses superior TLC NAND and 30% less power (3.5W vs 5W)
Due to the low endurance, this drive is best used for low write applications and laptop secondary storage

Real world benchmarks from PCPP:
Full Disk Write Throughput: 380 MB/s
Full Disk Write Throughput (Last 10 Seconds): 373 MB/s
Random Read Throughput (Disk 50% Full): 158 MB/s
Random Write Throughput (Disk 50% Full): 208 MB/s
Sequential Read Throughput (Disk 50% Full): 2267 MB/s
Sequential Write Throughput (Disk 50% Full): 528 MB/s

WDS960G2G0C

Controller: WD Polaris MP16
Memory: Toshiba BiCS4 96L TLC
DRAM Cache: None, HMB Supported
Sequential Read: 2400 MB/s
Sequential Write: 1900 MB/s
Random Read: 340,000 IOPS
Random Write: 380,000 IOPS
Endurance (TBW): 80 TB
Warranty: 3 Years

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  BROKENKEYBOARD on 20/03/2024 - 20:47

  +3

  Endurance (TBW): 80 TB

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    MasterScythe on 20/03/2024 - 20:52

    It's wrong. If it's QLC, It's 100TB
    https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-g…

    It claims it's TLC, but I don't see that model on WD's site.

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      BROKENKEYBOARD on 20/03/2024 - 20:59

      https://www.westerndigital.com/en-au/products/internal-drive…
      This one lists 80 but it's a different model number to the one on sale

      TPU lists it though https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/western-digital-sn350-…

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        netsurfer on 20/03/2024 - 22:20

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        SN350 is weird. TechPowerUp did indicate multiple hardware versions found.

        Officially, WD lists 1TB could be TLC and QLC. The weirdest part is 1TB QLC version has better specs than the TLC version (better max read / write speed, and better TBW, albeit inferior random read/write performance). Guessing WD underquoted the TLC version or TLC version has less spare cells.

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          BROKENKEYBOARD on 20/03/2024 - 22:48

          @netsurfer: TPU lists the model numbers:

          WDS100T3G0C 1TB QLC 100TBW
          WDS960G2G0C 960GB TLC 80TBW (this deal)

          Another one listed on WD but not TPU:

          WDS100T2G0C 1TB 80TBW

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            netsurfer on 20/03/2024 - 23:48

            @BROKENKEYBOARD: Still quite confused. Using TPU specs for 960GB TLC vs 1TB QLC:

            • 960GB TLC has better NAND speed, lower latency, better die read/write speed than 1TB's QLC NAND.
            • 960GB TLC has a larger over-provisioning over 1TB QLC version.
            • The quoted P/E cycles for TLC seems normal (so the QLC value won't be as good).

            Yet, the QLC one has higher TBW, better max sequential read/write speed (obviously the write speed quoted is SLC cache speed). Doesn't make sense the QLC gets higher TBW based on the specs.

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    Elijah on 20/03/2024 - 21:01

    Yup posted this last year for the 2TB - $107.18, TBW aint that great… :(

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    vid_ghost on 20/03/2024 - 21:22

    +3

    My Hemorrhoids have more endurance!

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  BananaMan007 on 20/03/2024 - 20:57

  +5

  I dont see any reason to buy this

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    Nilfunds on 20/03/2024 - 21:00

    yup

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  JXXY1337 on 20/03/2024 - 21:49

  Not really a good deal, I got mine awhile ago for around the same price as the buy 2 deal

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  XJX on 24/03/2024 - 10:02

  Are there any better deals at the moment for 1TB or 2TB. I checked Aliexpress and they are about the same price as Amazon at the moment (~$80-90 for low-end 1TB, ~$140-150 for 2TB)