expiredphoinix | Staff posted Aug 07, 2024 07:37 AM
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expiredphoinix | Staff posted Aug 07, 2024 07:37 AM
Samsung T5 Evo USB 3.2 Portable Solid State Drive SSD: 4TB
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Absolutely awful considering it has a USB 3.2 Gen 1. This thing should reach way higher speeds but somehow, they designed it to be awful.
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possibly not a great product - slow speed and data loss.
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Lower cost and I know what kind of hard drive is in there. I dont see any top brand nvme drives failing on a portable drive.
But everytime I go to look at building one it seems like it's just about on par with pricing of a t5. At that point I feel like well just keep using my t5. I want to go 2tb at least. But 4tb starts to get expensive for my budget.
if someone wants to buy and shuck and see if there's actually an nvme drive in there that's just hampered by the interface, then i'd welcome hearing a report back!
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It's a good price relative to market conditions today.
Lower cost and I know what kind of hard drive is in there. I dont see any top brand nvme drives failing on a portable drive.
Most enclosures appear to be a crappy VIA USB hub chip connected to some other crappy storage chip. The weakness is definitely in the enclosure, not in the drives.
if someone wants to buy and shuck and see if there's actually an nvme drive in there that's just hampered by the interface, then i'd welcome hearing a report back!
Unless you get an actual premium and expensive USB drive, they are often a fraction of the speed of the interface.
If this drive can actually do 460MB/s..... It could transfer a 100 GB file in about 3 and a half minutes. I'm not saying it's cutting edge or brain numbingly fast or something, but if it can actually do 460MB/s, That's like go pee or make a bowl of instant noodles and it's done speeds for any kind of reasonably sized file under half a terabyte. My external 16 TB mechanical hard drive averages like 50ish megabyte's/s for large transfers, this is almost 10X faster than that if that speed is realistic.
Most enclosures appear to be a crappy VIA USB hub chip connected to some other crappy storage chip. The weakness is definitely in the enclosure, not in the drives.
I also have crucial p3 2tb (~$50) in an external enclosure for xbox series running the past year as well. No issues.
It may be the sustained heavy read/writes between the ssd controller/bridge and usb bridge responsible for premature failure of your drives.
SSD prices are experiencing an over-correction due to the price falls related to excess supply from high COVID demand, prices will eventually fall once NAND production increases again.
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