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Given the read/write speed, this seems like a drive that was PCI Gen3, and "upgraded" to Gen4, but still only performs at Gen3 speeds. Great price for the size though.
Given the read/write speed, this seems like a drive that was PCI Gen3, and "upgraded" to Gen4, but still only performs at Gen3 speeds. Great price for the size though.
It IS PCIe 3.0
Same price at BHPhotoVideo, BestBuy and Amazon.
And, it's single sided which means you can insert it into your Thinkpad or GPD Win 4.
It will be at "some reduced price" until they clear inventory, but it's not going to $100.
When the old Gen 3/ Gen 4 stock is gone, it will be "full on gouging" to make up for all the sales on the new stock.
Vendors are setting up the next "shortage" already, and unless they have an instant surplus of new higher capacity NAND to give us bigger drives, they'll put the screws to us as soon as they can. Instead of working with fair prices, they use a gouge and fire sale strategy.
It will be $180 after 10% cash back on Amazon Prime CC if anyone is interested. YMMV!
I got it on Amazon. Only been using it a short while, but no complaints so far.
These Gen3 and slow-Gen4 deals are really great for my use case, putting this in a nas where I top out at 5gb/s transfer speeds (two 2.5gbps using SMB multichannel) anyway. SATA SSD deals are pretty good for my use case, too, since that's about as fast as they'll go, but I still ge the latency advantage compared to spinning rust, even with several HDDs in a RAID.
The SSDs are geting cheap enough I was able to replace some hard drives (not for a trivial cost, but an approachable one) with 12TB of SSD storage. Then I've got anothe 10TB hard drive for some old video projects in "cold" storage I can always move selectively to the SSDs on a one-off basis if I need to work with those files again.
Thank you. I'm thinking of going with the 2TB for now, which is less than half the cost of the 4TB and should be good for a while.
Unfortunately, when I checked yesterday, it was @ $220. I'm also debating what to do. I suppose its unlikely the 2TB will drop far further so I think I may follow suit.
I'll need 4TB in the future, for my creative projects + pictures/videos
Got 2x 2TB WD Blue SSDs (for creative projects/movies), 2x 1TB Samsung 860s (music/pictures).
But figure, for now I'll transfer over the projects to this 2TB NVMe 1 I'll buy. I can survive with the 2TB SSD for the pics/music for now.
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Same price at BHPhotoVideo, BestBuy and Amazon.
And, it's single sided which means you can insert it into your Thinkpad or GPD Win 4.
Same price at BHPhotoVideo, BestBuy and Amazon.
And, it's single sided which means you can insert it into your Thinkpad or GPD Win 4.
When the old Gen 3/ Gen 4 stock is gone, it will be "full on gouging" to make up for all the sales on the new stock.
Vendors are setting up the next "shortage" already, and unless they have an instant surplus of new higher capacity NAND to give us bigger drives, they'll put the screws to us as soon as they can. Instead of working with fair prices, they use a gouge and fire sale strategy.
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These Gen3 and slow-Gen4 deals are really great for my use case, putting this in a nas where I top out at 5gb/s transfer speeds (two 2.5gbps using SMB multichannel) anyway. SATA SSD deals are pretty good for my use case, too, since that's about as fast as they'll go, but I still ge the latency advantage compared to spinning rust, even with several HDDs in a RAID.
The SSDs are geting cheap enough I was able to replace some hard drives (not for a trivial cost, but an approachable one) with 12TB of SSD storage. Then I've got anothe 10TB hard drive for some old video projects in "cold" storage I can always move selectively to the SSDs on a one-off basis if I need to work with those files again.
I'll need 4TB in the future, for my creative projects + pictures/videos
Got 2x 2TB WD Blue SSDs (for creative projects/movies), 2x 1TB Samsung 860s (music/pictures).
But figure, for now I'll transfer over the projects to this 2TB NVMe 1 I'll buy. I can survive with the 2TB SSD for the pics/music for now.
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