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Absolutely NO on getting Gen3. That would be a mistake.
Here's my take...it's more about price than performance, correct? I don't think there are many 4TB SSD's less than $190, so although this one is more performance than your enclosure can handle, enclosures are cheap and it's cheaper to get a faster one down the road (or even now, as 20Gbps enclosures are $23) than to be disappointed later when you wish you got a faster one.
So, get this now, get whatever enclosure you want and be happy.
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"It is single-sided... It uses QLC flash memory, which makes it slower than many other PCIe 4.0 SSDs that use TLC. Crucial lists the performance as Read: 4800 MB/s, Write:4100 MB/s, and an endurance of 800 TBW, all of which is at the lower end for this class of drive. It does have a 5 year limited warranty, though."
"It is single-sided... It uses QLC flash memory, which makes it slower than many other PCIe 4.0 SSDs that use TLC. Crucial lists the performance as Read: 4800 MB/s, Write:4100 MB/s, and an endurance of 800 TBW, all of which is at the lower end for this class of drive. It does have a 5 year limited warranty, though."
It's a mid-end storage drive from a reputable vendor. Too much navel gazing.
You could get a 4TB drive as low as 160 last year, but SSDs have gone this year. 4TBs are not often under 190 anymore, and when they are, they are usually Chinese brands like KingSpec. This is a good price for a decent 4TB drive that while overkill for your enclosure, will still work fine. You can wait to see what else BF delivers, but if nothing else is cheaper then I'd just get this and call it a day.
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Absolutely NO on getting Gen3. That would be a mistake.
Here's my take...it's more about price than performance, correct? I don't think there are many 4TB SSD's less than $190, so although this one is more performance than your enclosure can handle, enclosures are cheap and it's cheaper to get a faster one down the road (or even now, as 20Gbps enclosures are $23) than to be disappointed later when you wish you got a faster one.
So, get this now, get whatever enclosure you want and be happy.
I just did Blackmagic Speed test on my MacBook Air M2, I got 850 write and 550 read using that same enclosure and this 4TB SSD.I don't know why the read is so slow.
Which filesystem did you format it as? EXFAT is good for cross-compatibility but speeds will be slower on a MAC. If you use the Apple APFS format, you'll get close to 900MBps on both read/write, assuming you do not thermal throttle.
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Here's my take...it's more about price than performance, correct? I don't think there are many 4TB SSD's less than $190, so although this one is more performance than your enclosure can handle, enclosures are cheap and it's cheaper to get a faster one down the road (or even now, as 20Gbps enclosures are $23) than to be disappointed later when you wish you got a faster one.
So, get this now, get whatever enclosure you want and be happy.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad...ngle
"It is single-sided... It uses QLC flash memory, which makes it slower than many other PCIe 4.0 SSDs that use TLC. Crucial lists the performance as Read: 4800 MB/s, Write:4100 MB/s, and an endurance of 800 TBW, all of which is at the lower end for this class of drive. It does have a 5 year limited warranty, though."
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08G14NBCS
Unless you're using a more expensive thunderbolt-compatible enclosure (and even then....), I'd save your money and look at something cheaper.
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad...ngle
"It is single-sided... It uses QLC flash memory, which makes it slower than many other PCIe 4.0 SSDs that use TLC. Crucial lists the performance as Read: 4800 MB/s, Write:4100 MB/s, and an endurance of 800 TBW, all of which is at the lower end for this class of drive. It does have a 5 year limited warranty, though."
Unless you're using a more expensive thunderbolt-compatible enclosure (and even then....), I'd save your money and look at something cheaper.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08G14NBCS
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Here's my take...it's more about price than performance, correct? I don't think there are many 4TB SSD's less than $190, so although this one is more performance than your enclosure can handle, enclosures are cheap and it's cheaper to get a faster one down the road (or even now, as 20Gbps enclosures are $23) than to be disappointed later when you wish you got a faster one.
So, get this now, get whatever enclosure you want and be happy.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08G14NBCS
Blackmagic Speed test on my MacBook Air M2, I got 850 write and 550 read using that same enclosure and this 4TB SSD.
I don't know why the read is so slow.
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