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  • Slash3 - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - link

    That price point is just silly. As I write this, Sabrent's E16 based 1TB Rocket NVMe M.2 drive is $160 on the Egg, with Corsair's 1TB MP600 at $190. The 1TB Firecuda 520 is listed on a few retailers at the full $250. Unless they've employed a team of wizards to develop their firmware DRM, I can't fathom how this part is at all competitive.
  • Supercell99 - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - link

    1DWPD is pretty impressive. You may not need it, but for applications like databases or heavy write work loads that nice. If it had power capacitors it would be a nice drive for mixed use work loads in the enterprise space. This would be a good drive in as a caching layer in a NAS system.
  • FunBunny2 - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - link

    "You may not need it, but for applications like databases or heavy write work loads that nice. If it had power capacitors it would be a nice drive for mixed use work loads in the enterprise space. "

    but that's the problem; this drive is neither fish nor fowl at a kinda high price. no conservative CIO would put this in a mission critical database. no home user, gamer or otherwise, would be so much extra.
  • Supercell99 - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - link

    True, but a use case would be video editor or someone that created large files every day on a workstation. 1DWPD is pretty nice at that price point and speed/ I/O. I am just glad to see some good write endurance in the consumer SSD market.
  • Slash3 - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - link

    1DWPD is good, but it's also entirely in line with the other drives I mentioned as well. Corsair's MP510, for example, is also rated at 1.0 or 0.9 DWPD depending on capacity. I couldn't find the exact endurance specs for the Inland Premium or Sabrent Rocket, but another E12 twin, the MyDigitalSSD 1TB comes in at 0.9 DWPD as well.

    It's not a bad drive, it's just not particularly compelling, either.
  • azfacea - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - link

    barely above pcie 3.0 speed bottleneck @ 25 cents per GB. Nahhhhhhhhh not gonna happen.
  • deil - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - link

    it will go down by 30% before xmass. If they sell any, it will go to reviewers.
    unless it wont go bananas on sustained load, then it might hold that price.
  • vanilla_gorilla - Sunday, November 17, 2019 - link

    PCIe 3.0 x4 connection has less than 4GB/s of actual throughput. I don't know when 25% more became "barely above" anything, in any context?
  • PeachNCream - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - link

    Seagate - "Slap the word gaming on the sticker so we can justify a 100% markup! Thrirty year old basement dweller part time Uber drivers will get mommy to buy them one for Christmas."
  • r3loaded - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - link

    Is there any PCIe 4.0 SSD out there that ISN'T based on the Phison E16?
  • Zibi - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - link

    Samsung announced PM1733 & PM1735 a while ago.
  • Santoval - Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - link

    That's for the professional / enterprise space, not consumer.
  • Valantar - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - link

    Not yet for consumers, no. As the article states in its second sentence.
  • imaheadcase - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - link

    At first glance i got the Write Endurance as the size of drive. I was like WHOAH 900TB for $124! lol
  • rory187 - Monday, November 18, 2019 - link

    Is this the drive going in the lacie rugged ssd pro (thunderbolt 3) ?
  • Billy Tallis - Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - link

    No. It would make zero sense to put an expensive PCIe 4.0 drive into a TB3 enclosure that's limited to PCIe 3.0 speeds.

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