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Model: Western Digital 4TB WD Blue SN5000 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive SSD - PCIe Gen 4.0, M.2 2280, Up to 5,500 MB/s - WDS400T4B0E
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$200 should be the base price of an NVMe of this caliber, but here we are… some noteworthy things to know about this SSD: no DRAM cache, QLC NAND, relatively slow for PCIe Gen 4 standards, relatively low TBW (endurance rating). It's likely the best you'll do for $200 4TB NVMe, but I'm hoping this opens the floodgates for some price cutting on superior options. The HP FX900 Pro, for example has much faster io speeds, DOES have DRAM cache, uses TLC NAND, and has double the TBW endurance of this. It also has a base price of $250, which begs the question, why does this crap have a base price of $300?
I'd do the research on that drive and see if they fixed the issue with the innogrit controller failures. I've personally had the predator gm7000 4tb fail from it, and it's essentially the same drive as the hp fx900 pro.
No, I think this is one of the better options at this price point unfortunately. The other 4TB NVMEs near the $200 price point are comparable and in many cases no name brands. Because of your use case, the lack of DRAM cache isn't as consequential.
If you desperately need a 4TB NVMe ASAP, this one will be ok, especially as a game storage drive, but I'd pay $50 more and buy the HP FX900 Pro if you needed an NVMe to use as a system drive for sure.
Having said that, I've been monitoring NVMe prices every day for the last few weeks. I really need additional storage. I'm holding out to see if better drives come down in price before I pull the trigger. Ideally I'd like to get something like the FX900 Pro but more at the $200 price point, for my needs.
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$200 should be the base price of an NVMe of this caliber, but here we are… some noteworthy things to know about this SSD: no DRAM cache, QLC NAND, relatively slow for PCIe Gen 4 standards, relatively low TBW (endurance rating). It's likely the best you'll do for $200 4TB NVMe, but I'm hoping this opens the floodgates for some price cutting on superior options. The HP FX900 Pro, for example has much faster io speeds, DOES have DRAM cache, uses TLC NAND, and has double the TBW endurance of this. It also has a base price of $250, which begs the question, why does this crap have a base price of $300?
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$200 should be the base price of an NVMe of this caliber, but here we are… some noteworthy things to know about this SSD: no DRAM cache, QLC NAND, relatively slow for PCIe Gen 4 standards, relatively low TBW (endurance rating). It's likely the best you'll do for $200 4TB NVMe, but I'm hoping this opens the floodgates for some price cutting on superior options. The HP FX900 Pro, for example has much faster io speeds, DOES have DRAM cache, uses TLC NAND, and has double the TBW endurance of this. It also has a base price of $250, which begs the question, why does this crap have a base price of $300?
I'm looking for a 4TB NVMe to use as a secondary drive strictly for game storage – so no constant file transfers to and from the drive, just storing the game data – and I was eyeing this drive (at this $199 price point) b/c I've had good experiences with WD drives in the past – but seeing you list the downsides for this drive has me reconsidering. Do you think there are better options at this price range? I'd appreciate some recommendations.
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I'm looking for a 4TB NVMe to use as a secondary drive strictly for game storage – so no constant file transfers to and from the drive, just storing the game data – and I was eyeing this drive (at this $199 price point) b/c I've had good experiences with WD drives in the past – but seeing you list the downsides for this drive has me reconsidering. Do you think there are better options at this price range? I'd appreciate some recommendations.
Thanks!
No, I think this is one of the better options at this price point unfortunately. The other 4TB NVMEs near the $200 price point are comparable and in many cases no name brands. Because of your use case, the lack of DRAM cache isn't as consequential.
If you desperately need a 4TB NVMe ASAP, this one will be ok, especially as a game storage drive, but I'd pay $50 more and buy the HP FX900 Pro if you needed an NVMe to use as a system drive for sure.
Having said that, I've been monitoring NVMe prices every day for the last few weeks. I really need additional storage. I'm holding out to see if better drives come down in price before I pull the trigger. Ideally I'd like to get something like the FX900 Pro but more at the $200 price point, for my needs.
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No, I think this is one of the better options at this price point unfortunately. The other 4TB NVMEs near the $200 price point are comparable and in many cases no name brands. Because of your use case, the lack of DRAM cache isn't as consequential.
If you desperately need a 4TB NVMe ASAP, this one will be ok, especially as a game storage drive, but I'd pay $50 more and buy the HP FX900 Pro if you needed an NVMe to use as a system drive for sure.
Having said that, I've been monitoring NVMe prices every day for the last few weeks. I really need additional storage. I'm holding out to see if better drives come down in price before I pull the trigger. Ideally I'd like to get something like the FX900 Pro but more at the $200 price point, for my needs.
I'd do the research on that drive and see if they fixed the issue with the innogrit controller failures. I've personally had the predator gm7000 4tb fail from it, and it's essentially the same drive as the hp fx900 pro.
$200 should be the base price of an NVMe of this caliber, but here we are… some noteworthy things to know about this SSD: no DRAM cache, QLC NAND, relatively slow for PCIe Gen 4 standards, relatively low TBW (endurance rating). It's likely the best you'll do for $200 4TB NVMe, but I'm hoping this opens the floodgates for some price cutting on superior options. The HP FX900 Pro, for example has much faster io speeds, DOES have DRAM cache, uses TLC NAND, and has double the TBW endurance of this. It also has a base price of $250, which begs the question, why does this crap have a base price of $300?
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I'm looking for a 4TB NVMe to use as a secondary drive strictly for game storage – so no constant file transfers to and from the drive, just storing the game data – and I was eyeing this drive (at this $199 price point) b/c I've had good experiences with WD drives in the past – but seeing you list the downsides for this drive has me reconsidering. Do you think there are better options at this price range? I'd appreciate some recommendations.
Thanks!
After doing some research I ended up getting a San Zang 4TB with speeds of up to 7000/6500 MB/s for my PS5. There's little info about them but here's what I know. It uses the Maxio MAP 1602A chipset.
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No, I think this is one of the better options at this price point unfortunately. The other 4TB NVMEs near the $200 price point are comparable and in many cases no name brands. Because of your use case, the lack of DRAM cache isn't as consequential.
If you desperately need a 4TB NVMe ASAP, this one will be ok, especially as a game storage drive, but I'd pay $50 more and buy the HP FX900 Pro if you needed an NVMe to use as a system drive for sure.
Having said that, I've been monitoring NVMe prices every day for the last few weeks. I really need additional storage. I'm holding out to see if better drives come down in price before I pull the trigger. Ideally I'd like to get something like the FX900 Pro but more at the $200 price point, for my needs.
I personally went with a no name San Zang 4TB[a.co] I found on sale on amazon ($191 after discounts).
It uses a MAXIO MAP1602A controller with speeds of up to 7000/6500 MB/s.
This controller is used on the Acer Predator GM7 and Team Group MP44L and the Lexar NM790. It come with a heatsink and pads for PS5. https://pcper.com/2023/11/lexar-n...ymtc-nand/
I have been pretty happy with it for PS5, it scored over 6900 after the format. It took a bit to move the 600gb of stuff off the external backup. But that's not the M.2's fault. The backup drive was just slower.
I'd do the research on that drive and see if they fixed the issue with the innogrit controller failures. I've personally had the predator gm7000 4tb fail from it, and it's essentially the same drive as the hp fx900 pro.
It's been fixed with firmware updates. I've been using 3 of them with the newest firmware since November, no problems whatsoever.
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What about the Crucial CT4000P3PSSD8 at $220?
It's worse than this drive but for $20 more… it's got slightly lower speeds, lower endurance rating, also uses QLC with no DRAM cache. So it only makes sense to buy that one if this WD wasn't on sale for $200.
It's worse than this drive but for $20 more… it's got slightly lower speeds, lower endurance rating, also uses QLC with no DRAM cache. So it only makes sense to buy that one if this WD wasn't on sale for $200.
No, I think this is one of the better options at this price point unfortunately. The other 4TB NVMEs near the $200 price point are comparable and in many cases no name brands. Because of your use case, the lack of DRAM cache isn't as consequential.If you desperately need a 4TB NVMe ASAP, this one will be ok, especially as a game storage drive, but I'd pay $50 more and buy the HP FX900 Pro if you needed an NVMe to use as a system drive for sure.Having said that, I've been monitoring NVMe prices every day for the last few weeks. I really need additional storage. I'm holding out to see if better drives come down in price before I pull the trigger. Ideally I'd like to get something like the FX900 Pro but more at the $200 price point, for my needs.
Thanks for the reply!
I'm not entirely opposed to getting a more expensive drive if there's an obvious material benefit for doing so – I was simply under the impression that features such as DRAM cache aren't important for simple game data storage. Perhaps I misunderstood?
I'm browsing Amazon right now for 4TB NVMe drives at the $250 price point, seems like there are several popular choices there.
Personally I would not consider any QLC drive since performance will suffer when the drive gets fuller and fuller everyday, not to mention the lower durability. The lack of DRAM, I probably can tolerate by avoiding large file transfers and there's HMB when using in a PC.
I bought a 2TB Chinese brand SSD that has TLC without DRAM for less than $90 about a year ago and it's doing fine as my boot drive running 24/7
How does this compare with https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV92X...le_1&th=1? <- This was also on sale for 200 before and looks to be much better option with both SLC and DRAM cache. Also faster.
If you read the thread so far, I've been referencing this drive from the beginning. This drive is much better than the WD that this thread is based on, and I'm waiting for it to become available at the <$200 price point again (hasn't been at $200 since Black Friday).
Can someone tell me what you're doing with all your old NVMe drives? I want to re-use them proper, but its not as easy.
When we were all replacing rust spinners, it was easy to say "well this has lots of storage so I'll just make it a second drive for cold storage". But now... we're replacing NVMe drives that computers come with (256GB, 512GB) and replacing it with something superior in every way (size, speed, dram, nand type, etc)... sooooo... it feels ultra stupid to have a secondary drive that is inferior in every way.
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If you desperately need a 4TB NVMe ASAP, this one will be ok, especially as a game storage drive, but I'd pay $50 more and buy the HP FX900 Pro if you needed an NVMe to use as a system drive for sure.
Having said that, I've been monitoring NVMe prices every day for the last few weeks. I really need additional storage. I'm holding out to see if better drives come down in price before I pull the trigger. Ideally I'd like to get something like the FX900 Pro but more at the $200 price point, for my needs.
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If you desperately need a 4TB NVMe ASAP, this one will be ok, especially as a game storage drive, but I'd pay $50 more and buy the HP FX900 Pro if you needed an NVMe to use as a system drive for sure.
Having said that, I've been monitoring NVMe prices every day for the last few weeks. I really need additional storage. I'm holding out to see if better drives come down in price before I pull the trigger. Ideally I'd like to get something like the FX900 Pro but more at the $200 price point, for my needs.
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If you desperately need a 4TB NVMe ASAP, this one will be ok, especially as a game storage drive, but I'd pay $50 more and buy the HP FX900 Pro if you needed an NVMe to use as a system drive for sure.
Having said that, I've been monitoring NVMe prices every day for the last few weeks. I really need additional storage. I'm holding out to see if better drives come down in price before I pull the trigger. Ideally I'd like to get something like the FX900 Pro but more at the $200 price point, for my needs.
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If you desperately need a 4TB NVMe ASAP, this one will be ok, especially as a game storage drive, but I'd pay $50 more and buy the HP FX900 Pro if you needed an NVMe to use as a system drive for sure.
Having said that, I've been monitoring NVMe prices every day for the last few weeks. I really need additional storage. I'm holding out to see if better drives come down in price before I pull the trigger. Ideally I'd like to get something like the FX900 Pro but more at the $200 price point, for my needs.
It uses a MAXIO MAP1602A controller with speeds of up to 7000/6500 MB/s.
This controller is used on the Acer Predator GM7 and Team Group MP44L and the Lexar NM790. It come with a heatsink and pads for PS5.
https://pcper.com/2023/11/lexar-n...ymtc-nand/
I have been pretty happy with it for PS5, it scored over 6900 after the format. It took a bit to move the 600gb of stuff off the external backup. But that's not the M.2's fault. The backup drive was just slower.
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I'm not entirely opposed to getting a more expensive drive if there's an obvious material benefit for doing so – I was simply under the impression that features such as DRAM cache aren't important for simple game data storage. Perhaps I misunderstood?
I'm browsing Amazon right now for 4TB NVMe drives at the $250 price point, seems like there are several popular choices there.
I bought a 2TB Chinese brand SSD that has TLC without DRAM for less than $90 about a year ago and it's doing fine as my boot drive running 24/7
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When we were all replacing rust spinners, it was easy to say "well this has lots of storage so I'll just make it a second drive for cold storage". But now... we're replacing NVMe drives that computers come with (256GB, 512GB) and replacing it with something superior in every way (size, speed, dram, nand type, etc)... sooooo... it feels ultra stupid to have a secondary drive that is inferior in every way.
Thoughts?
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