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Model: Western Digital 2TB WD Blue SN5000 NVMe SSD PCIe Gen 4.0 up to 5 150 MB/s Read Speeds Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
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You think someone doing "light word processing" is writing 50gb every single day? Yeah, no.
When you're adding new photos to a storage drive, you do it every day? Including Saturday and Sunday and every Holiday? Hmm, ok, so if you were to theoretically write 250gb every single day, it would still take almost 10 years to hit 900 tbw.
Point being, for 99% of regular users who will not be editing 8k videos every single day, this will far outlast its 5 year warranty. 900 tbw is a great endurance rating for a drive in this tier.
If none, this would be perfect in the Satechi Mac Mini Hub to expand the storage.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks y'all!
There was a problem when Windows 24H2 was released that required a firmware update for this and other HMB drives, but that's the only one I know of. In general the NAND and controller on the WD blue drives are quite good. It's a bit depressing that this drive at $124 could be considered a "deal" during Black Friday though. I believe the MSRP at launch last summer was $140. Saving $16 1.5 years later on a midrange drive isn't very exciting.
If none, this would be perfect in the Satechi Mac Mini Hub to expand the storage.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks y'all!
As the other guy wrote, starting with Win11 24H2 this drive was having a problem with HMB memory allocation, but Sandisk (which makes this) came out with a new FW release. The 2TB I bought when this was $106 a month ago already had the latest FW.
Note their 1TB version also has issues with Win11 24H2 and up if used as a second drive in a system.
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Datapoint: I bought this same drive from BestBuy by PMing Walmart on November 9th. So in 20 days it went up 20%.
When you're adding new photos to a storage drive, you do it every day? Including Saturday and Sunday and every Holiday? Hmm, ok, so if you were to theoretically write 250gb every single day, it would still take almost 10 years to hit 900 tbw.
Point being, for 99% of regular users who will not be editing 8k videos every single day, this will far outlast its 5 year warranty. 900 tbw is a great endurance rating for a drive in this tier.
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Datapoint: I bought this same drive from BestBuy by PMing Walmart on November 9th. So in 20 days it went up 20%.
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If none, this would be perfect in the Satechi Mac Mini Hub to expand the storage.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks y'all!
If none, this would be perfect in the Satechi Mac Mini Hub to expand the storage.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks y'all!
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If none, this would be perfect in the Satechi Mac Mini Hub to expand the storage.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks y'all!
Note their 1TB version also has issues with Win11 24H2 and up if used as a second drive in a system.
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