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Samsung 8TB SSD, 870 QVO, 2.5 inch SATA III, Read up to 560MB/s, Write up to 530MB/s, IOPS R/W up to 98/88K, Endurance 2880 TBW, 4bit MLC, 8GB Cache
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Samsung 870 QVO 8TB 2.5" SATA SSD $749 + Delivery ($0 MEL/BNE/SYD C&C) @ Scorptec
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But at $749 not exactly cheap as chips
… when you consider that the only thing that makes it different from a version 1/8th the size is the number of chips it has inside.
Unless they just increased the capacity of each chip!
Wow I finally have reached the time when SSDs are getting very close to regular drives
An 8tb normal drive is often around $300…
I got a 8tb CMR drive for $180 a few months ago
Model/brand?
@Schrodinger: SMR but close: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07LGC3LTN
CMR for ~40% more (since there's no discounts): https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07SZVVBBK8TB drives should be cheap by now as shucked 12-16TB drives can make it to $300-350 mark from time to time.
@xmagic: I got a 14TB WD red pro for 390 last month. Should have waited for a deal on a 16TB. Hope it's CMR at least. Forgot that there are SMR ones now.
For $300, you can get 12tb, WD element desktop, even lower if you have jbhifi perks voucher.
I know, more just the standard pricing of a bare drive. Similar to this.
About $300 for a Red in stores, maybe a bit less.
I think they're referring to the drive size, not cost?
Well in that case, this has been out years, and HDD are over 20tb…. So same same.
@dbell: There's actually much bigger, think 30 plus tb for business. Obviously not even remotely practical…
@dbell: NVME too…. Absurd.
The 1tb Micro Sd is the one that still blows my mind, even though I have a couple. It's still just mind boggling.
@scuderiarmani: Yeah seagate make a cracking size 15TB ssd in the 'nytro' series. I believe they even made a 60TB ssd but isn't available to the general public.
It’s 2.5 times the price, but 5 times faster, ten times fewer writes, 1/10th of the weight, and 1/3rd of the size.
So many reasons to go one way or the other.
Less noisy and uses less fan-forced air, less power, generates less heat
I remember when 1TB Samsung SSDs were $1K.
Lol, at the risk of showing my age, I can remember when a 20mb Hard Drive (3.5") was about $2k AUD, or about $3.5k in todays $
Yeah I remember when PC's were becoming a thing they were like 3-5K. That would have been so much money back then. Lucky for me C64's were attainable.
I HATE when people tell us of deals they got ages ago that were better than the current deal, especially when they didn't share the better deal with the community at the time… but here is my story! (I hate myself, evidently)
Last year I purchased this drive for $700 after an incorrect price on ebay together with a large ebay coupon code… and I got $150 of steam vouchers as cashback.
I like to keep my PC as quiet as possible, so replaced my WD Black media drive with this to keep movies, music on etc. Rate it highly.
I hope you have a backup tho
It's important to have backups of ALL drives, but your post seems to specifically cast doubt about this one, without reason.
Sure. But yes, trim function means you can't get anything unintentionally deleted back and in my experience the controller dies before the nand so there's little chance to be warned before failure.
@justtoreply: If it's used mainly as a media drive (which for most people just means movies and music they've downloaded from somewhere), who cares if it fails?
Sounds like this deal. Great value.
It's odd that Samsung (and everyone else) hasn't released any more high capacity drives in the past 2+ years. I guess there's not much demand at this price.
I hate people who bought house there years ago. 😜
You won’t believe this one simple trick to make money on property!
(buy ten years ago)
You b ought a $700 8TB drive to store movies?
Yes. I want a totally silent PC. It was the last piece of the puzzle.
Why not put a NAS in a mother room
i have a fan less laptop with ssd
i can hear the screen and memory refresh. its frustrating. no silence for me.qq
I built a home server with 12tb of NVME PCIe drives 4-5 years ago, and what do I use it for. Sadly to just store movies.
Again, like the poster above, I wanted completely silent PC. But it sure did cost me a lot.
I remember winning a 1Tb SDD a few years back now that was priced at $750ish, crazy to see this same price for a 8tb - shows how much I have been paying attention to prices.
Just 24 of these in a good NAS with lots of SATA ports should be pretty dandy, where's my chequebook?
… and where's the fax machine, and white out… ;)
Good for reading, not good for continuous writing. I think speeds drop off after 100GB of continuous writing.
Seems to be a big premium for large capacity — and I think still overpriced. SSD prices have been dropping like crazy everywhere else over the last few months, just take a look at camelcamelcamel for most SSD drives, while this 8TB QVO drive is still not the cheapest its ever been. When other 2TB TLC NVME are just $140, its bonkers that this old, slow QLC SATA product is still > $600! I would have expected this to drop further, faster.
That's a common thing amongst pc parts, top end always costs that bit extra. It never scales nicely.
Also, Samsung doesn't exactly have much competition in this area… Has been out for ages. I sold one recently.
I'd like to see these at the $600 or less mark. I know it's dreaming but with the price of M.2 drives crashing, these should get cheaper to compete the market.
Bought a 8TB 3.5" firecuda last week for $300 (apparently the same CMR drive as a ironwolf which is cheaper). Normal ssd's have to come down for me to bite for a larger storage drive.It's also available on their eBay store. Listed in wrong category so won't show up in default search results.
$729 delivered with coupon FEBSNS23
awesome.
i look fwd to replacing my nas 4x 4tb disk with these in (hopefully) 3 years or so. iI bought a 870 EVO 4TB and use it in my CloudKey G2+ as surveillance drive (well, if you used UCKG2+ you know you don't have a lot of choices). That drive got 2400TBW, and according to my calculation, it can run for years to come.
===== For /dev/sda:
Temperature: 39°C
Power-on hours: 2645 hours (19 power cycles)
Wear level: 99% (average 5 cycles per block)
Total write: 20.5475TBW (5.64694 FDWs)If 870 QVO 8TB can make it to ~$600-650 then I would not hesitate to swap over, because the writing won't overburden the drive and NAND flashes, it will run likely the same lifespan as 870 EVO, but bigger capacity means longer recording playback. In such use case QLC is fine for me and is a worthy trade-off. Hopefully that day comes quicker than expect.
A Steam voucher will push me over the edge with this price…
For regular sata drive this still sounds too much. The SSD price keep declining while the capacity is increasing. Maybe wait?
Bought 4 to replace my 4x6TB HDD in my NAS, thanks OP
:o
are those 6tb hdds for sale?
if i recall a drive like this was under 700 a few months back may have even been under 600 or close to , given this is a QVO as well tho going to have to wait about 3 years i think before we start to see newer and newer Drives …..
I don't think you are recalling correctly…
"given this is a QVO as well tho going to have to wait about 3 years i think before we start to see newer and newer Drives ….."
Are you high?could not find anything ,but its even cheaper yet again currently apparently
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/758813
we have Hdds coming out within the Next Few years that will be as fast as this Drive in in large capacitys now im sure they want SSDs to compete in every category so about those new drives
Do they make an EVO 8TB?
Umart/MSY price is close to this as well, so might be the leading edge of a wholesale price drop.