WDS200T2X0E
Controller: WD
Memory: SanDisk BiCS5 112L TLC
DRAM Cache: Micron 2GB DDR4
Sequential Read: 7300 MB/s
Sequential Write: 6600 MB/s
Random Read: 1,200,000 IOPS
Random Write: 1,100,000 IOPS
Endurance (TBW): 1200 TB
Warranty: 5 Years
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It’s making me mald
both mad and bald?
Yeah I bought the non X for 380. Spewing
@ShrewdBargin: At least its sitting in your PC/Playstation being used, and not sitting in a box waiting. Right?
@Sleepycat3: Tech does get better with time to be fair but this was less than 6 months :( for more $100 cheaper and a better model
@Sleepycat3: Not really, I paid $319 for my 500gb Samsung 960 EVO. Sounds like they got a good deal @ 550.
Is this substantially better than the P5 plus deal from the other month?
Should be. This one, Samsung 990 Pro and Firecuda 530 are the 3 best gen 4 SSD that usually appear on this forum (there are a few other at the same tier as these, but they don't have good discount to be on OzBargain frequently).
Debatable with the 990 Pro given many reports of them massively losing endurance for no known reason.
Better, yes. Substantially better, that's debatable. Most people probably prefer to pay more and buy this one over P5 Plus.
This one is fine for PS5 yeah? About to pull the trigger
Specs wise yes, but tbh you won't see much different between the worse vs the best gen 4 during PS5 gaming.
Yes definitely but best to get a heat sink for it to use in ps5
Heads up, the terms and conditions for the buy 2 items get 5% off deal indicate that the promo is ending soon "This is a limited time offer and will end at the earlier of 2023/02/13 00:00 or while stocks last."
Apparently a heat sink is needed for PS5. Can I buy this and get a heat sink separately? If so, which heat sink should I get? Thanks all.
Heatsink isn't required.
You can get either one of these heat sinks, which actually replace the whole SSD cover, which then receives airflow from the main cooling fan.
You can get cheaper heatsinks that go inside the SSD cover, just on the back of the SSD, but these seem to be rated higher and for obvious reasons seem to do a better job.
ahh i just bought a p5 plus for 250…..
That's still a good deal. The first 2TB PCIe gen 4 SSD I bought costed $320 and is inferior to P5 Plus.
The recent issues with both WD and Samsung make me stop buying their SSDs anymore, patiently waiting for a solidigm p44 pro deal at least its the same tier (sometimes even perform better than 990 pro) and no issue so far.
Link the supposed issues?
For 990 Pro: Users say Samsung’s latest Pro SSDs have health problems.
If you get 990 Pro, do a firmware upgrade a.s.a.p. Also, let's hope Samsung did fix it properly in the firmware, rather than hacked the firmware to trick the SMART data.
SN850X: not sure which issue he is referring to.
For Samsung yes, 990 Pro and also 980 Pro have that issue.
For WD, nothing specific about SN850x, but more just like big corporate doing doggy things like the cold data storage issue and the SN550 issue previously - making me hesitate buying their stuff
@nelladream: The samsung issues are very real. My 980 pro failed a few weeks ago with only 20TB written. It was due to the widely reported drive locking in read only mode, and has the older firmware that is known to cause this issue. Samsung have rejected the RMA due to it being fullfilled by Amazon US. I took the chance with a grey import due to the amazing reliability of samsung drives. That turned out to bite me in the ass a year and a half later.
Samsung have rejected the RMA due to it being fullfilled by Amazon US.
serious? Dont they have global warranty?
@kehuehue: No, theyre certainly no EVGA in that regard. I asked them to honor it regardless considering the claim is due to a widespread failure caused by a known manufacturing issue that is currently receiving media coverage, but i dont think they will care. I sent the email Friday arvo, so will probably get an email saying "too bad" some time today.
@DanielP2: Let us know how it goes. It is certainly very annoying.
Also, now with more information on Samsung SSDs, I will now revise my advice. Even if you don't care about the PS5 initial benchmark speed, for Samsung SSDs, do a firmware update to the latest version first, before putting it into the PS5.
@kehuehue: Samsung doesn't do global warranty. That is compounded by Samsung does allow end customers to do RMA so sellers could and do push consumers to do that.
I have not purchased Samsung SSDs from Amazon non-AU yet. However, I am unclear how WD does things. Also, Kingston… Kingston warranty is through the retailer so if Amazon is unwilling to do it… then I will be !@#!@#@!.
@nelladream: Cold storage issue… are you sure Solidigm P44 Pro doesn't have that issue? Are we certain the issue is isolated to older TLC NAND technologies and the newer ones now have that sorted?
The sn850x issue is awaiting a firmware fix. I get some controller error in windows log.
@reactor-au: I got "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR1." on my new SN570.
Buy 10 and sell on Gumtree for profit
Price further down to $257.67.
Thank you, OP! Bought 2!
Could only find this tablecloth to bring down the price to ~$253 https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B06XFTLK1G?m=A4XRJ8S0WXSO0&ref=…
True ozbargain spirit, thanks for the tip :D
Would this be overkill to go into an enclosure and use as an external SSD for movies?
can anyone recommend something better value for the my application
What kind of transfer rate are you needing for movies that you're even looking at SSDs? If you're happy to step back to a spinning drive, you can get 10 TB for less than this, 12TB for slightly more.
80 MB/s transfer rates are 640 Mb/s bitrate… the only time you're going to run into trouble is if you're watching uncompressed video. That's more than enough read speed for 8K lossless at crazy frame rates.
I watch a lot of 4k stuff, but its probably more just the transfer times from computer to external that i want to reduce.
I mean if you're downloading the file directly to the drive, it has zero impact until you're sitting over 500 Mb/s, and again that's assuming 80 MB/s transfer. It's probably more like 150-200 MB/s, so beyond gigabit internet.
You're not getting beyond SATA speeds until we're using 5+ gigabit.
@colt75: I understand, what I'm suggesting is that you can point the download directly to your external drive if you so wish.
But yeah there's no point going past SATA SSDs if you still want to go that way, it's just that they're extremely expensive when you consider the rest of your use case.
@colt75: Seeking will be faster with a SATA SSD. So a big SATA SSD will be the way to go if you have the money. But an HD will be perfectly fine.
@colt75: I've seen them on sale for $100, but if you want to just grab a SATA caddy for like $10-$20 you can throw whatever you want in.
Lossless or lossy?
If talking about lossless, even at 4k, 30 fps and 10bit color / channel and no audio, the bitrate requirement around 949 MiBytes / sec
The numbers you're posting there are for uncompressed raw video, not lossless. Lossless compression is still a form of compression. Even film studios don't like working with uncompressed video if at all possible.
People at home should not be storing uncompressed FHD video for viewing, let alone 4K. It's just too unwieldy, and there's always going to be redundant data.
This is a solid price.
I got my 4TB model on a unique Amazon deal and paid about $610 a few months ago.
Ordered this with a PS5 Heatsink. So looking forward to expanding space as I’ll have no room for any PSVR games on release. Hope the shipping isn’t too far behind :). Epic deal thanks Op!
Will cancel order if not shipped tonight ! And buy local for a premium. Red flags 🚩 here… has anyone ever got an order from these guys?… or had issues ?
My last one took 5 weeks from Amazon US, just arrived 2 days ago actually. The Amazon delivery estimate is almost always 100% accurate.
It shows as $304 now so I assume the deal has expired ?
Keeps dropping :)