Cheap budget SATA SSD for storage drive. NewMaxx SSD spreadsheet says QLC DRAMless like Crucial BX500.
Latest SATA 3 Controller; Capacity: 1.92TB
Interface: SATA III 6Gb/s
Static and Dynamic Wear Leveling, Bad Block Management, Low Power Management
Form Factor: 2.5"
Warranty: 3 Years
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up to 450mb/sec reads
It's been a while since I've seen an ssd with advertised speeds below sata III's limits
Maybe they're just one of the few companies that are honest with their marketing?
Hahahaha I couldn't keep a straight face saying that
Are "slow" SSD's like this still ok for running large games (Flight Sim, DCS etc.) or are they HDD sort of slow?
They'll probably never be hard drive tier.
Unless you have a fairly fast CPU like ryzen 3000 or newer id wager the CPU would be bottlenecking your storage perfomance more but im not certain
Definitely much faster than HDDs. In this video, we see load times for MS Flight Sim
HDD = 1min 15.6s
SATA SSD = 34.25s
Gen 3 NVMe = 30.65s
Even with a slower SATA SSD, I'd say maybe 2-4 seconds longer wait at most
There is no longer a 1.92TB option available on that link. Largest is 960GB.
Only 2 left at 960gb , $85
Where these drives suffer is when you are copying large amounts to these drives from another fast storage device.
I bought a 240gb from same brand recently. Installed Windows 11 and was installing other apps when the OS froze. Restarted and found that the SSD couldn't be detected. Plugged in another SSD using the same cables. No issue.
Returned it to Amazon AU and was refunded on the same day (as soon as Auspost marked it as received).
Disclaimer: YMMV.
At this size durability isn't even an issue. It's pretty hard to wear down 2TB of flash with daily use even if it's QLC.
3 year warranty is nice too