A great price for this SSD, as it's TLC and has DRAM and while it's Gen3x4 it's a decent speed. It has been dropping steadily, this is $18 cheaper than the Amazon US deal from a couple of days ago and local stock - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/765259. I've been waiting for a 4TB drive to drop to $300 but this looks almost too good to pass up.
But it is a preorder, with no indication on delivery timeframe. Not suitable for PS5.
If RBA pauses, AUD is likely gonna tank during Easter break.
Preorder with no timeframe sucks. I assume they take your money straight away?
Yeah, good point. I wish they would at least give you a window time approximation on any type of pre order as consumers could be waiting months with the "how long is a piece of string" type theory 🙄
Check the comments in other deal. Doesn't necessarily have DRAM now because they've changed controllers
Is Scorptec still required (by Australian Consumer Law or similar) to provide a product that meets the specs listed on the page?
e.g. this image advertising the endurance figures and the presence of DRAM cache with the 4TB variant offered on the page having 2400TBW write endurance.
Where does it say it hasa cache? Thanks
7th row DRAM cache YES, I did not see anything on the Scorptec page saying how big it would be.
Meaning it would be technically accurate even if they only have megabytes instead of gigabytes of cache.
Similarly they only state optimal performance figures rather than figures for typical and for different IO scenarios e.g. at different queue depths, drive fill percentages, or worst-case scenario where the SSD itself is still the bottleneck.
I've noticed many manufacturers leave cache size, controller chip, overprovisioning amount, and other performance-relevant details out of their product spec sheets / datasheets.
From memory I think Teamgroup is among those who don't give a promised figure for cache size in theirs.
It very well could be a terrible product at this point and we'd have little recourse or way to tell before we recieve the product should we buy it.
Kind of par for the course on consumer drives unfortunately.
Getting so sick of these bait and switch SSDs
I don't know how it isn't illegal.
This thread talks about the controllers this drive (4TB size) typically comes with (i.e., Phison E12, or E12S, or SMI SM2262EN or RTS5762).
Had a 3camel alert setup on this item, and jumped on Amazon US deal the moment it appeared. ETA between 6-14 Apr.
Needed a decent SSD to go in my wife and daughter laptops to replace Dell's stock 512GB SSD boot drive.
Thinking of sticking the old SSDs in my QNAP.
Would this be ideal for a main drive?
I have 5 drives in my gaming machine and I"m wanting to merge them into one.
Really want this but it needs to have DRAM. I've only ever had bad experience with DRAM-less drives, freezing when I do a windows search of the drive
Instead, use the program Everything - Windows Search is a steaming 💩 in comparison.
Feels excessive to download a program for something that should be native.
You can get it now for about the same price from the US
https://www.amazon.com/TEAMGROUP-Internal-Compatible-Desktop…
If buying multiples the shipping stays the same, so it gets less expensive
As of today, this now comes to $248USD - which makes Amazon AU a better deal ($360 + $15 AUD, ship from US, less 4% gift card): https://www.amazon.com.au/TEAMGROUP-Internal-Compatible-Desk…
These are now listed as In Stock at Scorptec. Did anyone receive theirs yet?
Need the AUS$ at around 73 cents to hit the $300 price point for a 4TB.