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Are people forgetting the fact that this is a QLC drive??? …and come on @phoinix, $360 list price!??? On what planet?? we're your users, we're loyal to your site, don't take us for dummies like that…
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Can anyone comment on if this is a good price for storage for gaming? All I care about is keeping steam games on a second drive to make reformating easier. Would rarely move large files from one drive to the other. All this speed and DRAM stuff doesn't seem important for my use case unless someone can point out why.
Can anyone comment on if this is a good price for storage for gaming? All I care about is keeping steam games on a second drive to make reformating easier. Would rarely move large files from one drive to the other. All this speed and DRAM stuff doesn't seem important for my use case unless someone can point out why.
Yes, it's a good price and would work well for gaming. You're right that SSD performance means very little for gaming.
Can anyone comment on if this is a good price for storage for gaming? All I care about is keeping steam games on a second drive to make reformating easier. Would rarely move large files from one drive to the other. All this speed and DRAM stuff doesn't seem important for my use case unless someone can point out why.
This is more than enough for fast transfers for gaming on PS5 or PC.
I ordered one to go along with the Alienware 4070ti machine, along with 48GB of ram.
Now I'm debating whether or not to add a 3.5" 7200rpm drive for P2P, probably not the best idea to seed and download on an NVME and waste the writes on it. Western Digital Black 3.5" 6TB is on sale on their website for $110 w/ 10% CB.
OOF, yeah. I was half expecting to get called out for trashing the TBW on this drive. I mean, it's pretty sh*tty. But as your example proves, it's really about use case.
I'm not sure though... depends on how much you're downloading really. Seeding = "infinite" drive life. So I guess it depends on how much you expect to DL. I think I've traditionally downloaded everything to HDD's. I wouldn't mind this drive for backups, but 800TBW doesn't inspire much confidence. I've been thinking about buying a ~2TB datacenter SSD. Something that you can do multiple DRIVE writes to per day, and will last you 5 years+.
I'd go with the HDD for downloads .
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Sony does have speed requirements for the Gen 4 SSDs but this one barely just falls short of it. However this does make for great drive in a gaming computer
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Now I'm debating whether or not to add a 3.5" 7200rpm drive for P2P, probably not the best idea to seed and download on an NVME and waste the writes on it. Western Digital Black 3.5" 6TB is on sale on their website for $110 w/ 10% CB.
OOF, yeah. I was half expecting to get called out for trashing the TBW on this drive. I mean, it's pretty sh*tty. But as your example proves, it's really about use case.
I'm not sure though... depends on how much you're downloading really. Seeding = "infinite" drive life. So I guess it depends on how much you expect to DL. I think I've traditionally downloaded everything to HDD's. I wouldn't mind this drive for backups, but 800TBW doesn't inspire much confidence. I've been thinking about buying a ~2TB datacenter SSD. Something that you can do multiple DRIVE writes to per day, and will last you 5 years+.
I'd go with the HDD for downloads
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