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expiredEragorn | Staff posted Feb 2, 2025 9:05 PM
2TB MSI SPATIUM M461 M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 NVMe QLC Solid State Drive
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MSI has 2TB MSI SPATIUM M461 M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 NVMe QLC Solid State Drive (SM461N2TB) on sale for $84.99. Shipping is free.
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- 2TB Capacity
- Phison E21T Controller
- Micron QLC NAND Flash
- M.2 2280 (Single-Sided) Form Factor
- Sequential Read speeds up to 5000MB/s
- Sequential Write speeds up to 4200MB/s
- Up to 450 TBW
- 5-Year Warranty
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MSI has 2TB MSI SPATIUM M461 M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 NVMe QLC Solid State Drive (SM461N2TB) on sale for $84.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Hunter Eragorn for sharing this deal.
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Thanks to Deal Hunter Eragorn for sharing this deal.
About this Item:
- 2TB Capacity
- Phison E21T Controller
- Micron QLC NAND Flash
- M.2 2280 (Single-Sided) Form Factor
- Sequential Read speeds up to 5000MB/s
- Sequential Write speeds up to 4200MB/s
- Up to 450 TBW
- 5-Year Warranty
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TBW: 450 TB?!
Compared to various other 2TB models:
WD Blue SN580,
WD SN5000: 900 TB
Crucial P5+,
Samsung 870 EVO,
Samsung 990 EVO+,
WD SN770: 1200 TB
Different performance tiers.
QLC < TLC < MLC
MLC (Multi-Level Cell) → 2 bits per cell (best durability, expensive)
TLC (Triple-Level Cell) → 3 bits per cell (balance of cost, speed, and endurance)
QLC (Quad-Level Cell) → 4 bits per cell (cheapest, but slower and wears out faster)
And even then this thing would last me for 9 years.
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TBW: 450 TB?!
Compared to various other 2TB models:
WD Blue SN580,
WD SN5000: 900 TB
Crucial P5+,
Samsung 870 EVO,
Samsung 990 EVO+,
WD SN770: 1200 TB
Just for kicks, I also have a 840 Pro from 2013 working as a boot drive in a torrent box. Has 138TB of writes on it.
Instead of buying based endurance ratings, I'd look more into real customer reviews. Some drives really are flops. Everything else will probably outlast you.
FWIW, Samsung 870 QVO 2TB is 720 TB.
If the manufacturer doesn't trust its product much, neither would I.
Though it might just be a warranty limitation of sorts, I don't know if that's really the case.
It could just as well be correlated with data retention. The more you write, the more likely you are to get data corrupted somewhere.
I will agree that a 2tb QLC drive should be $80 or less, but in the current market it's a decently good price. The price of storage has gone up in general in the last few months.
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And even then this thing would last me for 9 years.
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SSDs do wear leveling. So regardless of which logical sector you write, the actual writes are spread over the whole drive.
I consider multiple factors, including specs.
I was focusing on TBW rather than QLC/TLC. But also not all QLCs are the same, like the mentioned Samsung one with 60% more TBW at the same 2TB size.
SSDs do wear leveling. So regardless of which logical sector you write, the actual writes are spread over the whole drive.
I consider multiple factors, including specs.
I was focusing on TBW rather than QLC/TLC. But also not all QLCs are the same, like the mentioned Samsung one with 60% more TBW at the same 2TB size.
And even then this thing would last me for 9 years.
Honestly this is a good price for what you get compared to what's available currently. It is a low end product, yes, but even those sketchy Orico brand drives aren't this cheap for 2TB.
FYI, the most likely case for hitting that TBW mark, is that it stops writing, i.e. you still can move your data as necessary, and as someone who had hard drives fail, there is no "wait let me get my stuff" moment. The reality is there's not a lot of information out on this, because no one ever gets to that point of failure for these drives.
Now if you are in fact a "power user" who does write that much data to drives, then I agree with you completely, that you need to look to other tools that fits your lifestyle.
Write speed dropped to 5-10 MEGABYTES while I was setting up my PC, installing programs, and transferring files.
It was going to take multiple DAYS for all the data to transfer. Programs were stuck installing for HOURS.
QLC may be fine for grandma, but for any kind of a moderate power user, no. Its not worth the $20 savings to get a much much worse QLC drive. Pony up the few extra bucks for TLC or buy used.
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