I'm surprised that the TBW is only 800 on these…is it just me or Crucial seems to have lower TBW compared to Samsung and some others?
Agreed, that seems like a horrible TBW endurance for a 4TB drive.
I even checked the 2TB one in the series to see if it was a typo. but that one is 440TBW so yeah they
really do mean ~200TBW/TB endurance. Yuck.
For many purposes it'd be a reasonable idea to use either SATA or NVME drives for general purpose "fast enough"
secondary bulk storage (in comparison to the seek latency / IOPS of a rotating disc) so there may be some better $/TB pricing on some better drive in one of those categories or other.
Agreed, that seems like a horrible TBW endurance for a 4TB drive.
I even checked the 2TB one in the series to see if it was a typo. but that one is 440TBW so yeah they
really do mean ~200TBW/TB endurance. Yuck.
For many purposes it'd be a reasonable idea to use either SATA or NVME drives for general purpose "fast enough"
secondary bulk storage (in comparison to the seek latency / IOPS of a rotating disc) so there may be some better $/TB pricing on some better drive in one of those categories or other.
It is qlc memory and without dram. Shouldnt expext much for the tbw. 250 is good price though. I think at this point this is normal price. 200 and im in for one.
Just purchased a few minutes ago... price dropped from $249 to $209 for the P3 4tb on the Crucial link provided by OP.
Whoa! That is the lowest price yet on this drive. I thought I did well for $237! This drive is definitely only being used as a game and media storage drive. Low writes.
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I even checked the 2TB one in the series to see if it was a typo. but that one is 440TBW so yeah they
really do mean ~200TBW/TB endurance. Yuck.
For many purposes it'd be a reasonable idea to use either SATA or NVME drives for general purpose "fast enough"
secondary bulk storage (in comparison to the seek latency / IOPS of a rotating disc) so there may be some better $/TB pricing on some better drive in one of those categories or other.
I even checked the 2TB one in the series to see if it was a typo. but that one is 440TBW so yeah they
really do mean ~200TBW/TB endurance. Yuck.
For many purposes it'd be a reasonable idea to use either SATA or NVME drives for general purpose "fast enough"
secondary bulk storage (in comparison to the seek latency / IOPS of a rotating disc) so there may be some better $/TB pricing on some better drive in one of those categories or other.
Thanks, I checked out with the quickness
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Be aware of the Endurance rating of the regular P3 drives. It is half of that of the higher tier drives.