populartDames | Staff posted Aug 25, 2025 03:53 PM
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populartDames | Staff posted Aug 25, 2025 03:53 PM
4TB PNY CS2241 M.2 NVMe Gen4 x4 Internal Solid State Drive SSD $202.22 + Free Shipping
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Buyer beware! PNY is no longer a reputable company. They are not honoring the warranty on their USB drives, and having PNY customer service tell me that they know there's an issue with the controller for them. But they're going to sell them anyway and hope people just don't call about the warranty.
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990 Pro is a whole next level of a drive, I'd say $50-60 is easily worth it.
nope...wd7100 beats 990pro in most benchmarks. only benchmark where it falls behind is in sustained writes like when filling the entire drive which usually only happens once when restoring an image. dram is overrated these days.
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Okay it's fair, and to be honest this is why I went with sn7100, and it's been great so far. The things that 990 Pro has going for it are DRAM (and I know it's a very niche use case feature these days), higher rated durability (and I also know most of us will never have to worry about it), on board encryption, and probably some other benefits other than just speed that I can't think of right now. Yes, most of us won't benefit from any of that, but this is why it's a "Pro" drive, it's not necessarily meant for home/gaming use, even though it can handle it fine. The Samsung drive that directly competes with sn7100 is the 990 Evo Plus, and in this case, there is no competition, really. WD is better. To my original point, I still maintain that 990 Pro is the different level of a drive, and it is worth the price, but you're right, for us here, it probably doesn't make sense.
how is it still worth the price when its actually slower? it was a pro level drive back when it was released. maybe you're confusing it with the 9100pro? that would be a different level of a drive.
Edit: Looked up why anyone would benefit from on board encryption, and yes, it's mainly enterprise use cases, stronger data protection for sensitive data. With on board encryption, a potential bad actor can't retrieve any raw data directly from NAND chips. I'm sure many organizations are pretty much forced to pay more for drives like these just to be compliant with their data security policies.
TLC instead of QLC
These QLC drives that cram twice the Voltage states into each block of NAND should only be 60-70% the price of a TLC drive of the same capacity...
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