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ravewulf Even in today's market, that price is a bit steep for a SATA drive when you can get a WD_Black SN850X 8 TB for less. Reply
Shiznizzle It's all in German. Nah, ist das den nicht gut das ich deutsch lesen und sprechen kann? Jeder andere guckt nur die komishen woerter an und hat trotzdem keine ahnung. My question is why anybody would spend that kind of dosh for a SATA interface SSD? If you dont have M2 slots even then why bother? buy a smaller one and buy a HDD for storage. Reply
USAFRet Shiznizzle said: It's all in German. Nah, ist das den nicht gut das ich deutsch lesen und sprechen kann? Jeder andere guckt nur die komishen woerter an und hat trotzdem keine ahnung. My question is why anybody would spend that kind of dosh for a SATA interface SSD? If you dont have M2 slots even then why bother? buy a smaller one and buy a HDD for storage. A lot of use cases need more than HDD performance, but do not want the cost of 8TB NVMe. Reply
Broly MAXIMUMER Shiznizzle said: It's all in German. Nah, ist das den nicht gut das ich deutsch lesen und sprechen kann? Jeder andere guckt nur die komishen woerter an und hat trotzdem keine ahnung. My question is why anybody would spend that kind of dosh for a SATA interface SSD? If you dont have M2 slots even then why bother? buy a smaller one and buy a HDD for storage. Not everyone is moving on "price first." On top of that, some of us want all of our "main / internal" drives to all be solid state at this point. Reply
Cryosys The drive is not new at all. We bought 35 of them sep 2024 for our Nas as a cheaper alternative to HDDs while not going for nvmes for ~550€ each. They were available before that, the earliest I know off is early 2024, but maybe even earlier. Reply
Cryosys Cryosys said: The drive is not new at all. We bought 35 of them sep 2024 for our Nas as a cheaper alternative to HDDs while not going for nvmes for ~550€ each. They were available before that, the earliest I know off is early 2024, but maybe even earlier. Nvm 8 misread the Evo part, we have the QVO, Evo is interesting but for the most part there is basically no difference between them Reply
King_V My thought is just that there will be more SATA ports on a motherboard than M.2 slots. So, if you need a LOT of storage at faster than HDD speeds… Reply
usertests King_V said: My thought is just that there will be more SATA ports on a motherboard than M.2 slots. So, if you need a LOT of storage at faster than HDD speeds… You might get >25x the sequential speed with a PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD than SATA SSD, which is becoming a large gap, but the SATA SSD will still likely have around 1000x the IOPS of typical HDDs, and that is a huge benefit. The SATA SSD should also be using less power and easier to cool than NVMe. So I hope big SATA SSDs can stick around for a few more years as a viable product. On the HDD side, dual-actuator drives are starting to max out SATA, for what that's worth. Reply
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