Seems like a good price for 4TB with such high read/write speeds and PCIe 4.0 compatibility. Looks like a recent (considerable) price drop. There are not too many 4TB NVMe drives out yet, and the few that are seem to be more expensive and slower than this.
They also have one at $799, but it is 3rd generation and slower.
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Places which process terabytes of satellite imagery, like my department :)
Excellent question.
So when the company is purchasing the equipment. And at that point does it really matter if it goes on sale?
I'm an Ozbargainer. It's a matter of principle.
@Make it so: This is why I like buying things from eBay. Their invoices always display full price without the discounts n stuff ;)
That has no relevance to the question being asked
Sounds like you work for CTU or something
Or Cyberpunk 2077
If you every checked out Slow-Mo guys on youtube, one of the creators, Gavin, explained how he needed the least amount of bottlenecks possible with his editing set-up etc.
Isnt this why there is those SSD servers which hold up to like 120Tb?
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computers with a single NVME slot and no SATA slots? lol.. (eg Laptop.. but might not fit the heat sink).
By default, operating systems have been using disk page files for about two decades now - this means that, to keep ram free, your OS moves data from your memory onto disk. The closer to full utilisation your memory is, the more aggressively the OS will do this. When drives were only capable of reading/writing at about 100MB/s this was a huge slowdown on your system as your memory is orders of magnitude faster than that. Now that Solid State storage is getting very fast the performance hit for paging to disk is much less.
Basically, having a faster disk can make any PC faster - even if you don't think you're reading and writing a lot.
Ozbargain department.
Duno, but still costs less than a mobile phone that you'll drop and break within a year….
thanks, bought 5
hard drive with heatsinks?? Wow fancy~~
What makes you think that this is a hard drive?.
Last time i looked that this is a solid state drive.
I don't see where he said disk drive.
He said hard drive. A hard drive is a platter based mechanical computer drive.
You can not class an SSD as a hard drive.
But yeah there's plenty of NVMe SSD with a heatsink. Such as this one. Nothing fancy about that.
I've never seen a heatsink on a hard drive.
@hollykryten: Those 10k RPM Velociraptor HDDs from WD had a heat sink I think
https://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/1272/wd_velocira…
Still weren't SSD fast though
Whoa…. almost about the same price with my Surface pro 7
Those heatsinks are massive, soon we'll be seeing fan on NVMe drive heatsink.
It's getting such that every component in a PC needs a heatsink now. Maybe it's time to start doing fully submerged oil cooling.
Never heard of Sabrent and suddenly they're coming out with a 4TB SSD with performance similar to Samsung EVOs?? Is this legit or dodgy?
Sabrent have been around for ages producing some of the fastest SSDs using the Phison controller.
Maybe you hadn't heard of it because it's high end stuff made with high quality. The usual stuff you buy isn't up to that sort of brand quality. So of course you've never heard of the brand.
And there's no way that a Samsung EVO SSD is up to the sort of quality as this. It's not just about read and write speeds it's also the NAND endurance and controller quality to take into account.
I've been waiting for the price drop on 4TB full speed NVMe SSDs - having a single drive is ideal for really compact builds and motherboards with limited SSD bandwidth or only a single M.2 slot.
Serious question - what sort of computing environments need this much very high-speed storage?