Samsung 4TB SATA SSD 860 QVO $496.95 delivered ($549 + $10.95 post -$63 Samsung Cashback) at MWave
Cashback from https://www.samsung.com/au/offer/ssd-upgrade-cashback/
This isn't the fastest SSD - it's cheap and big, perfect for a Steam library or similar - https://www.anandtech.com/show/13633/the-samsung-860-qvo-ssd…
They're out there - keep an eye on eBay US for Enterprise pulls, the easiest way is to setup some recurring searches for the model numbers you're interested in. Then buy with a freight-forwarder because it's common that they won't ship out of the US…
Any recommendations
Not off the top of my head, but the guys at the ServeTheHome forums will have some ideas 👍
I also wish expensive things weren't expensive
American data storage company Nimbus Data is one firm that holds the world record for the biggest SSD, which comes with a storage capacity of a whopping 100TB.
bargain at 40k US….
more like 4 SSD's in 1.
Would this be good for storage only? I dont plan on using it for a main drive. Any cons for this vs the 860 evo?
I wouldn't put anything I wasn't prepared to lose on it. Good for a game drive but not important media.
Yes but it's a QLC drive which basically means for normal people it is fine, but if you are someone who is very write-heavy in their usage, the drive will potentially a) slow down faster once it's run out of cache; and b) wear out faster since it's QLC rather than TLC (since QLC has a much lower endurance). If you plan to say, install games/movies/etc and want quick read/load times, this is perfect. If you plan to edit movies or use it as a scratch drive for Photoshop, then probably not so good.
Itll just be for movies/games. Sounds prefect thanks
thanks for the tip! what would you recommend with TLC?
For mere mortals QLC wear is more of a risk with a 1TB drive, it only wears when it writes/erases and it’s got a 1440 TBW warranty so you’re going to have to really try to wear it out. If you don’t give it some time to move things around after writing 70 TB or so to it, writes will slow down writing for a bit until it has time to move things out of the cache. But you’d still have to copy several times that to it before it’s slower than a hard drive on average. And it will always be faster for small files and reads.
Bit of a waste for large movies as yet as the streaming speed on hard drives is more than sufficient (for watching anyway) but great for things like large photo collections (or if using portably / in a laptop or just want to do away with spinning disks altogether.
I killed a 250gb 850 evo by using it as a DVR main drive. Did about a year constant writing.
@Pixie13: Yeah, this drive is warrantied for nearly 20x as many writes as an 250gb 850 evo. But yes using it with a huge bunch of security cameras or to constantly record live TV (eg for those instant replay type features). Wouldn't be great for it, even if it would take a while to kill a drive this size without a fire hose of data.
I had a cheapie intel 128 GB drive that was already down about 40% of its life in about 4 months using it as a cache drive for a ~40TB NAS. The drive was too small and that was not the right application for it…
Ive done heaps of upgrades for clients using Intel QLC drives, not a single complaint, not a single failure. The beat-up around QLC being unusable is over the top. For 98% of users its absolutely suitable.
Totally fine for normal storage.
860 EVO is faster but pricier…
Samsung 4TB SATA SSD 860 QVO $496.95 delivered ($549 + $10.95 post -$63 Samsung Cashback) at MWave
If you have eBay plus and are willing to jump through some extra hoops you could get the newer 870 for cheaper.
| $566.10 | Samsung 870 QVO 4TB with coupon PLUSSAVE |
|---|---|
| 550 | $550 worth TCN gift cards via ShopBack app. Convert to eBay gift cards on TCN website. |
| 16.10 | Pay the difference between 550 and 566.10 |
| -27.50 | 5% cashback from TCN gift cards |
| -59 | Samsung cashback (Futu Online = K.S. COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY) |
| =$479.60 | delivered |
Hey. Are there any benefits from using a 870 vs an 860? im looking for a 4tb storage, if there isnt that much of a difference ill go with the 860qvo. Thanks
870 QVO is slightly faster, but there isn't much in it. They're basically just 860 QVO again with a few tweaks.
Are there any disadvantages or reduced speed if I have 2x2tb ssd's joined as a spanned/striped volume?
Striped volumes may wear some cell area more then others as I believe raiding them stops or doesn't play nice with drive wear leveling features. Spanned volumes maybe better with the in built wear leveling issue.
Oh thanks for that.. Will I lose read/write speeds on a spanned volume?
They should be the same more or less, striped would be faster depending on the connection interface.
Any better deals for 870 4tb? Or 860 Evo 4tb?
870 QVO is not much different to this 860 QVO.
860 EVO is quite a bit faster, but costs quite a bit more…
Still don't understand why 4tb NVME is still so darn expensive….
This isn't even nvme. It's a SATA drive.
The question really is why are four 1TB drives or two 2TB drives cheaper then one 4TB drive.
Market segmentation? Though the best deals on the 4TB drives have been better value per TB than the 1 TB and 2 TB drives now. Isn't always the case price wise, but if you're after density you're going to want the bigger drive anyway. The same reason people were spending more per TB on spinning disks, less bays in use = less power and less servers.
It'll be good when the EVO 4TB drops to these prices much better quality than QVO.
I say no to this
Great price. Would love to see big (and affordable) 16TB drives though.