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Review: Samsung 870 QVO 2TB SATA3 SSD
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#5805304 Posted on: 07/02/2020 06:35 PM
- nvme = 4x pcie lanes/drive it's not free, it's very expensive in bandwith if it costs all your sata ports and half your pcie lanes its not an option (not with an incoming 3080ti who knows !)
nvme and SSD are not in the same market at all because of that problem
I see in reviews and comments most people are not the target audience of those drives but still "look at them" as usual brands prefer blurring the lines hoping for "wrong" buys rather than explain properly which drive is for which use...
those are not for os, not for people who don't need very large sizes, not for people who copy all the time etc..not sure for who they are, too expensive for what they are currently
80Gb cache..meh not for me lol
https://ibb.co/xf7JN0V
- nvme = 4x pcie lanes/drive it's not free, it's very expensive in bandwith if it costs all your sata ports and half your pcie lanes its not an option (not with an incoming 3080ti who knows !)
nvme and SSD are not in the same market at all because of that problem
I see in reviews and comments most people are not the target audience of those drives but still "look at them" as usual brands prefer blurring the lines hoping for "wrong" buys rather than explain properly which drive is for which use...
those are not for os, not for people who don't need very large sizes, not for people who copy all the time etc..not sure for who they are, too expensive for what they are currently
80Gb cache..meh not for me lol
https://ibb.co/xf7JN0V
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#5805363 Posted on: 07/02/2020 09:50 PM
so will they slash prices in half later on or what? they seem completely pointless at the moment
so will they slash prices in half later on or what? they seem completely pointless at the moment
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#5805524 Posted on: 07/03/2020 12:38 PM
prices in my country : +-885USD for a 8Tb +-484USD for a 4Tb
to be compared with the current TLC drives lineup (only major brands are sold here) :
860 evo basic 580$
WD Red SA500 555$
Sandisk SSD Ultra 3D 4TB 487$
WD Blue 474$
so roughly the same prices or even less sometimes for TLC drives rather than QLC, borderline scam other than the 8Tb which has no competition
prices in my country : +-885USD for a 8Tb +-484USD for a 4Tb
to be compared with the current TLC drives lineup (only major brands are sold here) :
860 evo basic 580$
WD Red SA500 555$
Sandisk SSD Ultra 3D 4TB 487$
WD Blue 474$
so roughly the same prices or even less sometimes for TLC drives rather than QLC, borderline scam other than the 8Tb which has no competition
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#5805553 Posted on: 07/03/2020 01:49 PM
sure it has competition, raid 0 of two 4tb pieces, yeah that should be cheap
sure it has competition, raid 0 of two 4tb pieces, yeah that should be cheap
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Weak product, poor price.
You can find Crucial MX500 2TB which is a proper high-performance TLC drive that can write at SATA speeds (500+) indefinitely for a bit less than this, and is occasionally discounted even more:
2TB:
MX500 https://www.amazon.de/dp/B003J5JB12 € 224
QVO https://www.amazon.de/Samsung-Internes-Solid-State-MZ-77Q2T0BW/dp/B089R1C9HV €234
Well of course MX500 is already somewhat old, so there are no 4 TB or 8 TB options, but you can buy 2 or 4 of them and RAID them for more speed, cheaper than these crappy Samsung drives !
I don't care about what any review is saying, I will STAY AWAY FROM QLC like it's the plague or coronavirus ...
I'd consider QLC if it was like 60-70% the price, but its a joke otherwise especially at 90% the price. 140MB/s writes when the cache fills up? Sure 80GB sounds like a lot to write before slowdown but as the drive fills up, you lose the SLC cache and will encounter slower writes more often.