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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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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! lolrory187 - 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.