Pretty good speeds - up to 3500R/2700W, but not PS5-worthy :)
PCIe 3.0 x4 / NVMe 1.3
3D4 QLC NAND
Has DRAM (anything between 256MB, 512MB-2GB and 2GB)
740 TBW for this 2TB admittedly not the highest, but not bad
AES 256 bit hardware encryption
5 years warranty
Reviews at PCMag and Tom's Hardware mention good performance, but high price - this price at MWave seems to take care of that "but".
Did anyone notice how low the TBW is?
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To be worthy, I hadn't… :D
Its TBW is not very high
Low TBW, only 543GB per day for 5 years. I need to download 10 games every day to the SSD.
Yeah I was wondering this… who (in consumer land) is actually hitting TBW limits?
You can 100% fill and then 100% wipe this drive 180 times…
Something something low TBW.
low tbw
Slow 🤣
After posting I noticed that it's been here ~2 weeks ago, same price.
Makes me think I'm not in danger of missing this deal.
Anyone know how much they charge for delivery (say, to WA)? I haven't been able to find that without creating an account.
If anything, I would say just wait if you don't need it now. It'll only get cheaper.
Thanks!
One does need to find a balance between
- the cost of getting it now
- getting it cheaper a bit later AND spending hours on OzBargain (great site, by the way!) and other sites, obsessing over specs and a couple dollars here vs there
I don't expect it to get much cheaper within the next 2 months, and I kinda need it at the end of that timeframe.
Still rocking a 256gb crucial mx300 as my main drive. With prices going the way they are going now, I doubt you'll be spending hours on ozb in a few months. There will be cheap ssd deals everywhere
@shiny1: TBW is not the only determining factor that makes QLC drives more error prone and not last as long.
I have had the same dilemma for buying a new graphics card. Been looking to upgrade since the 1070 came out. Now I'm afraid that I will loose my primary hobby of looking for a graphics card deal if I actually buy one.
My only concern (possibly not so much with an Intel unit?) would be manufacturer's skimping on components being the driver for the price decrease, as we've seen with other SATA & NVMe SSDs.
$11.95 for standard delivery to WA
should have bought this over the PNY deal from yesterday - the cache makes it worth it.
At these prices, who needs NAS?
LOL A nas can be 20tbs, shared with the whole house at any time
20TB NAS? Thats just one drive for some.
well yeah
$75/tb is still prohibitively expensive (my HC550s were $19/tb). The main issue with this is the drive being QLC though, which in NAS usage (large sequential writes) makes it significantly slower than any half decent HDD once the write cache exausts, which for the 670p, exausts extremely quickly.
can you give an example of what would exhaust the cache, would it be normal windows operating stuff and so you would not use as a boot drive, but if you used it as a software/game drive what would exhaust the cache in that scenario?
A very standard game drive use case would be downloading or updating a game, it would result in microstuttering if trying to play off the drive at the eame time.
No such issues with even entry level dramless TLC, given a half decent HMB.
@bobvegas: It's a purely theoretical "issue" - in practice, you can absolutely game from a drive like this whilst also doing game updates in the background, with absolutely no issue. It won't noticeably affect your running game in any way.
not bad is what I would be saying if this was a Gen 4 drive. gen 3 on the other hand pass!!
Most people are still on gen 3 platform, believe it or not. Not everyone has up to date PCs. Besides, differences in real world usage is negligible. If you're a benchmark/stat junkie, fine. But reality check, this is excellent value.
Yeah TBH even my WD black 4tb HDD is pretty fast at 150-160mb/sec - let alone 1000 plus mb/s NVME drives.
7000mb/s gen 4 nvme drives are insane that you can't even tell the difference unless you're processing 8k video files that are quite litirally 100GBs each.
bIgGeR nUmBeR bEtTeR
get a hold of yourself, for most theres no point spending extra for performance you can't utilise
How is this as a boot drive for gen three system?
FYI if you are impatient, I ordered 2 of these in the last deal 2 weeks ago, said they were in stock but only shipped this morning.
Seems worth the wait though, they are meant to be on par or better than my 970 evo plus in application/game loading times and that is all I'm using them for. Seem less suitable if you are dealing with very large files or video editing though.
on par or better than my 970 evo plus in application/game loading times
Every drive is on par for application/game loading times - the time saving from the fastest drives is almost nothing. If this is your use case, it doesn't matter what drive you buy 👍
Oh nice, yea I have to say I can barely tell any difference even between the 970 nvme and 850 evo sata drives with game load times to be honest - glad I didn't spend up big for what I'm using it for, these seem pretty well priced
Though guaranteed ozbargain will find some other way to swindle us out of everything we saved
I swear if anyone comments on low tbw one more time…