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2TB WD Green SN3000 NVMe SSD
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SanDisk has 2TB WD Green SN3000 NVMe Solid State Drive (WDS200T4G0E-00CPS0) on sale for $119.99 - $12 (10%) with unique promo code when you sign up for email offer alerts = $107.99. Shipping is free.
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- Sequential Read Performance: 5000MB/s
- Sequential Write Performance: 4200MB/s
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Written by citan359 | Staff- About this product:
- 3-Year Limited Warranty
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- Please see the original post for additional details & give the wiki and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
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SanDisk has 2TB WD Green SN3000 NVMe Solid State Drive (WDS200T4G0E-00CPS0) on sale for $119.99 - $12 (10%) with unique promo code when you sign up for email offer alerts = $107.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member N3RD_01 for sharing this deal.
Specs:
Thanks to Community Member N3RD_01 for sharing this deal.
Specs:
- Sequential Read Performance: 5000MB/s
- Sequential Write Performance: 4200MB/s
Editor's Notes
Written by citan359 | Staff- About this product:
- 3-Year Limited Warranty
- Additional notes:
- Please see the original post for additional details & give the wiki and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
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The WD Green SN3000 2TB is a budget NVMe aimed at basic gaming and everyday storage, with advertised speeds up to 5,000 MB per second and a 3 year limited warranty. The low price around $108 to $109 makes it attractive versus pricier Gen 4 drives, and burst tasks like Windows loads and game launches should feel fine. The main concerns are its QLC design, 250 TBW endurance, and reports of slow sustained transfers once the cache fills. Reliability and order handling also drew complaints, including premature failures, cancellations, and unexpected charges.
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Orders were canceled because SanDisk later treated the listing as a pricing error. Some buyers also reported confusing cancellation emails and, in a few cases, charges that had to be disputed or credited back.
It can work as a game drive for burst loads, but it is a QLC drive with listed endurance of 250TBW and reported slow sustained transfers. For a main drive or heavy write workloads, the low endurance and reliability concerns make a higher-end SSD a safer choice.
The drive is rated up to 5,000MB/s, but sustained performance can drop sharply after the SLC cache is exhausted. For everyday use and gaming, that usually matters less than burst speed, but large file copies and backups can slow down a lot.
Yes. It is listed at 250TBW, and multiple comments describe premature failures or bad-block issues on WD Green drives. That makes it a better fit for light use than for data you rely on long term.
The warranty process can be straightforward: upload photos of the receipt and drive, then ship it in. A replacement claim for a failed WD 850X was handled through SanDisk, though return shipping cost about $5.
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From a power usage standpoint, it's about 7TB total or about 14-15 hours of the gaming rigs being turned on under a best case scenario to do network backups. I'm backing up 4x4TB drives with 1-3TB each on them, so with the external drive it's 30min to an hour tops for each drive, and the whole process can be done in an afternoon if I want to do all my computers. Finally, I can backup the file server itself and my laptop over the network while the desktops are backing up to the external drive. Once I get all the files on the external drive, I transfer them all to a spinner on the file server, which takes a very long time, but I don't care because I'm not actively working with data on the spinner drive in the file server, as it's dedicated to only storing those backup files. This also gives me redundancy, as I have a copy of the files on the external drive and one on the internal drive inside the file server. A third up-to-date copy is on an external 18TB drive that I cycle offsite with an identical 18TB drive every two months (offsite is current and onsite has month old data until the next backup). For the actual files I backup, I do use an incremental system that's backed up at the end of each day.
I use a quality NVME drive in a 20Gbps enclosure. I have a file server in the house that's on 24/7/365, however I prefer to do full drive backups instead of incremental. Also, by using the external drive I'm not bogging down the network for hours making backups and can do work with files over the network, stream Plex, etc.
From a power usage standpoint, it's about 7TB total or about 14-15 hours of the gaming rigs being turned on under a best case scenario to do network backups. I'm backing up 4x4TB drives with 1-3TB each on them, so with the external drive it's 30min to an hour tops for each drive, and the whole process can be done in an afternoon if I want to do all my computers. Finally, I can backup the file server itself and my laptop over the network while the desktops are backing up to the external drive. Once I get all the files on the external drive, I transfer them all to a spinner on the file server, which takes a very long time, but I don't care because I'm not actively working with data on the spinner drive in the file server, as it's dedicated to only storing those backup files. This also gives me redundancy, as I have a copy of the files on the external drive and one on the internal drive inside the file server. A third up-to-date copy is on an external 18TB drive that I cycle offsite with an identical 18TB drive every two months (offsite is current and onsite has month old data until the next backup). For the actual files I backup, I do use an incremental system that's backed up at the end of each day.
A switched infrastructure should alleviate the impact on Plex or anything else. I'm surprised this is a concern. As gigabit is 100MB/s in both directions concurrently, this shouldn't be an impact, even if the NAS is also the Plex server.
It all sounds incredibly manual. Ouch!
I use Synology Active Backup for Business with my Synology and never need to think about this stuff.
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There was that deal on the Office Depot nvme that everyone was all up in arms because the endurance was "only 700TBW".
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There was that deal on the Office Depot nvme that everyone was all up in arms because the endurance was "only 700TBW".
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