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I get your point, and I agree with you. But a serious answer to your question: astrophotographers. After 4 nights of shooting the Orion Nebula, the processed files (files required for processing are in addition to files captured) are 486GB. But the program kept failing. I ran it a half a dozen times. During the height of winter (height of nebula season) I easily write over a 1 TB per week. These numbers are also only for the files stored. I have no insight into how much is written as cache during processing.
And even then this thing would last me for 9 years.
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Similar things were discussed before, and some people apparently don't care, but still... 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
TBW is such a silly thing to get hung up on when choosing an SSD. At 450 TBW, you could write 150 GB per week for over 57 years before it would reach that warranty. How many people can say that they seriously write 150 GB per week on a regular basis? You are far more likely to have a controller fail than you will have a write failure.
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If it's available for $90 elsewhere, please post a link so we can rep you!
That price on their page is likely a hold-over from Black Friday pricing. I bought the M482 2TB back then for 89.99 - 4.50 coupon. I don't know if it's been back in stock since that sale.
Both are storage devices. I value my data, and this one isn't cheap enough to be worth it.
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.
Again, its just a warranty. Insurance costs money, cheaper product = less protection.
You can pay much more for a Firecuda with full data protection recovery warranty but still be bitten by known firmware bug eating data.
Sometimes the less you write the more likely it data will fail as bad firmware fails to refresh the cell data.
They don't test tbw, its an arbitrary number for product differentiation. Even junk chinese nand has been tested and seen to go past tbw, slowly but still survives.
So yes it depends how much your data is worth, for some uses it doesn't matter. You should have backup anyways.
Ideally you should get tlc with dram, but that ignores budget.
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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
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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
Cheers
https://us-store.msi.com/PC-Compo...2-2TB-Bulk
If it's available for $90 elsewhere, please post a link so we can rep you!
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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
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https://us-store.msi.com/PC-Compo...2-2TB-Bulk [msi.com]
If it's available for $90 elsewhere, please post a link so we can rep 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.
You can pay much more for a Firecuda with full data protection recovery warranty but still be bitten by known firmware bug eating data.
Sometimes the less you write the more likely it data will fail as bad firmware fails to refresh the cell data.
They don't test tbw, its an arbitrary number for product differentiation. Even junk chinese nand has been tested and seen to go past tbw, slowly but still survives.
So yes it depends how much your data is worth, for some uses it doesn't matter. You should have backup anyways.
Ideally you should get tlc with dram, but that ignores budget.
Same question, however I know a heatsink would be required.. but the downvotes suggest it won't?
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