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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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QLC can perform well or it can perform badly. It just needs to have a good controller and firmware. I think for the most part people with Samsung EVO SSDs with QLC are pretty happy with them. I'm sure you can easily find TLC drives that have horrible performance in comparison.
I see this every time NAND goes through a generational shift. Why not demand that we return to using SLC?
QLC can perform well or it can perform badly. It just needs to have a good controller and firmware. I think for the most part people with Samsung EVO SSDs with QLC are pretty happy with them. I'm sure you can easily find TLC drives that have horrible performance in comparison.
If it was 30-50% cheaper, sure... But it's usually like $15 per TB cheaper.
Same thing with SMR hard drives. They're like 10% cheaper, but can slow to the point of taking DAYS to do large operations. Not worth it.
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I think it's likely TBW is correlated with flash quality / actual P/E cycle rating, and data retention.
Warranty period - not so much.
As a random example, you can get SanDisk microSD cards [amazon.com] for $9.5 with a 10 years warranty.
Or probably Samsung with "lifetime". I wouldn't trust either more than SSDs rated for 5 or 3 years.
Write speed dropped to 5-10 MEGABYTES while I was setting up my PC, installing programs, and transferring files.
Decent QLCs should work okay for common usage scenarios.
I think it's likely TBW is correlated with flash quality / actual P/E cycle rating, and data retention.
Warranty period - not so much.
As a random example, you can get SanDisk microSD card [amazon.com] for $9.5 with a 10 years warranty. I wouldn't trust it more than SSDs rated for 5 or 3 years.
P/E cycles are not a binary thing: 100% reliability until you reach the limit, then 0% one crossed. I expect it's a gradual drop.
Sound like something is broken there, or a really bad product.
Decent QLCs should work okay for common usage scenarios.
I was moving 1.5TB of data and running Windows Updates and downloading Steam games. It was being slow, so I left it and went to bed.
The next morning it had barely progressed.
I wiped Windows and started over. Same behavior. Benchmarked the drive -- it had QLC performance in a supposedly TLC drive.
The whole drive tested good though, so it wasn't a problematic drive.
TLDR I wasted 8 hours trying to save $15. Never again. TLC for life.
If it was 30-50% cheaper, sure... But it's usually like $15 per TB cheaper.
Same thing with SMR hard drives. They're like 10% cheaper, but can slow to the point of taking DAYS to do large operations. Not worth it.
Not if the whole drive isn't available. If 90% of the drive is full, then all your writes can only be spread out within the remaining 10%.
But it would still limit the spread of writes. Maybe similar to not using TRIM.
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450TBW is still bad though for 2TB these days. That's lower than TBW of many 1TB SSD, and at $85, it's definitely not a great deal but for budget build casual use, it's fine and more than enough if the focus is to save a few bucks IMO.
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