was looking for a 4tb ssd when my toshiba hdd stopped working.
seems like a good price.
shopping express has for $487 but shipping is more to NSW.
Also free shipping with centre com
Redeem Rainbow Six Siege with purchase before 31 Aug 2021 at https://www.samsung.com/au/offer/ssd-rainbow6siege-2021/. T&Cs apply
It ran once this year.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/606103
The current promotion is "Build the best squad"
Purchase a participating Samsung SSD from the Samsung Online Store or a participating store to redeem a bonus download of ‘Rainbow Six Siege Deluxe Edition’ or ‘Rainbow Six Siege Year 6 Disruptor Special Pack’*."
Extra charge on credit card and PayPal….
fair enough, would that make it more expensive than shipping from the original post?
Thanks will update Post
Not that great of a deal when compared to Amazon 8tb ssd for just under 1k. Still decent if you only require 4tb instead of 8tb.
Did not understand your logic :/
Two of this is still less than the 8tb model
Dollar for dollar per terabyte pretty much the same cost as a 8tb ssd.
Even though it's out of stock
https://www.amazon.com.au/Samsung-2-5-inch-Serial-V-NAND-Int…
Here in stock. Fast delivery.
https://www.amazon.com.au/SAMSUNG-870-QVO-SATA-MZ-77Q8T0B/dp…
:/
@samsal46 Because two drives take up twice as many SATA ports and are twice as likely to fail.
It's usually worth paying a little more per GB for these reasons, to get one drive rather than two 👍
This SSD is QLC with some SLC cache, make sure it meets your needs. It will peak at 500MBps write speeds but drop to 170MBps once the cache is full.
It might be an issue initially, when you copied data from an existing SSD to this. If it is copying from a hard drive, I doubt you can get 170MB/s read consistently.
Also, all these marketing hype on sequential read/write. Try copying thousands of small files onto an NVMe SSDs, you are not going to get 3-5GB/sec write.
Not saying it’s a problem, just putting some stats out there.
I recently went through the same purchase and decided to get the 870 Evo because I move 4K video files through an all ssd work flow.
We all have different use cases and this may suit yours which is also fine.
Especially since 4TB 870 EVO was $525 during the recent ebay sale, the price difference is not large enough to get the QLC drive instead of TLC.
@DmytroP: The 4TB and 8TB QLC drives are absolutely fine for normal workloads, you don't need to pay the extra for a TLC drive unless you've got specific requirements like @marcs above.
@Nom: I actually hit a similar case a few times, was moving around nearly 1TB dataset to the 1TB QVO drive and it was frustratingly slow, would be even more noticeable with filling the 4TB drive. For me, the small price difference was well worth paying. But it's not a very common use case.
4K video files… okay, fair enough. That's one legit usage where you need decent sustained writes. Well, then the question is whether this 4TB is worth it or you are better off with faster ones.
For those people who actually do a lot of 4K video work, I reckon they are pretty clue up on what they need and it is unlikely they will go for this for video work. You are a good example.
Conversely, for those not doing 4K video work and just have very general usage, is 870 EVO a better buy? The following chart from Tomshardware worries me a bit:
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mhWu8DM2eZTeQAK3rw8y5h-970…
The reality is the TLC NAND in Samsung EVO series isn't that great, it is TLC after all. However, I am not sure what kind of trick Samsung is using for the QVO, I am cynical about the chart… it has to be some sort of caching being employed there, there is no way a true QLC can achieve that type of sustained write figure. My guess is 50GB isn't big enough for the QLC to show its true performance (lack of performance).
Just took delivery of the 8TB model, snatched up during 15% off eBay sales ($840.65), pretty happy with the speeds and the free R6. Though you'd need delivery to be pretty quick, the claim form requires the S/N from the drive.
Such a good deal for the 4TB QLC… but unfortunately I just don't need it anymore :(
Back in stock and $20 cheaper
Ohh I saw this too. I was super tempted to buy but I want to wait to see if Samsung does another cashback offer. They seem to do it yearly?