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Anyway, here's information not included in the original post (but should be), because some may wonder
Gen 4 x4) up to 5000MB/s
DRAM - NO
QLC - YES
Warranty - 5 years and 800TB (TBW)
Worth $200 IMO, but I"m sure others have different use cases and may like it. For me, it would just be an external drive, and while I wouldn't exceed the TBW, I won't buy QLC until it's lower-than-dirt cheap, if ever.
Not worth it to save $20
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Anyway, here's information not included in the original post (but should be), because some may wonder
Gen 4 x4) up to 5000MB/s
DRAM - NO
QLC - YES
Warranty - 5 years and 800TB (TBW)
Worth $200 IMO, but I"m sure others have different use cases and may like it. For me, it would just be an external drive, and while I wouldn't exceed the TBW, I won't buy QLC until it's lower-than-dirt cheap, if ever.
4800MB/s for the 4TB (5000MB/s for 1TB and 2TB), endurance is pathetic @ only 800TBW for a 4TB drive, so for a simple laptop usage this is good enough, but for high-performing caching application this should be avoided.
Anyway, here's information not included in the original post (but should be), because some may wonder
Gen 4 x4) up to 5000MB/s
DRAM - NO
QLC - YES
Warranty - 5 years and 800TB (TBW)
Worth $200 IMO, but I"m sure others have different use cases and may like it. For me, it would just be an external drive, and while I wouldn't exceed the TBW, I won't buy QLC until it's lower-than-dirt cheap, if ever.
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4800MB/s for the 4TB (5000MB/s for 1TB and 2TB), endurance is pathetic @ only 800TBW for a 4TB drive, so for a simple laptop usage this is good enough, but for high-performing caching application this should be avoided.
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Not worth it to save $20
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I've had a tab open with 4 TB M.2 drives sorted by price at Newegg for several weeks, and have watching this drive fall from $320 to $305 yesterday, thinking I'd buy when it hit $300. Say what you will about Newegg, their search and sort functions actually work, unlike Amazon which is broken by design.
I just need the size, I want to upgrade my little always-on Linux server from 2 TB, which is beginning to fill up. Speed is pretty irrelevant to me, so this drive would do the trick. But it has been lurking $5-$10 more than this price for weeks and we are so close to Black Friday that I think I'll hold off another week and see if it drops another $10 or so.