One Dutch retailer has listed the Sandisk 520 with an expected arrival date of June 3. If accurate, the listing strongly suggests that the official announcement is imminent.
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JeffreyP55 Admin said: Sandisk prepares to launch 520 and 320 SATA SSDs with capacities up to 4TB. Sandisk brings back affordable storage to rescue buyers from the SSD crisis — new 320 and 520 SATA SSDs are ready to launch : Read more Another step backwards. AM5 —-> AM4. SSD m.2 NVMe ——> SSD SATA. I fart in general direction of the insanity of it all. Reply
Shiznizzle Using yet more electricity as well with the older standard. It takes more time. I have a SATA HDD as storage in my system but that tops out @ 180. Chip based storage will be better of course. Yeah its a downgrade for sure but lets see what they want for these things. Me thinks they wont be cheap and once again manufacturers are ripping is off with old tech that demands top tech dollar Looked up price history for a 2 TB Sata average price. Currently at the 430 dollar range for the average. They are out of their mind if they think i am paying in excess of 300 pounds for some SATA drive. I will start using my raspberry pi when things break. Reply
teckel12 Spinning platter drives also work if you're desperate enough. And they're cheap (for now). Reply
lacerna teckel12 said: Spinning platter drives also work if you're desperate enough. And they're cheap (for now). I don't believe you've purchased a HDD lately. I bought a box of 30 750GB 2.5" drives, all warrantied WD Black enterprise pulls, none of them are SMR. I bought them about three months ago, for ~$11/drive, thinking I'd put them in enclosures, for sales at my flea market booth, at $40-$50 (hadn't decided on price), loaded with free OS software & data*. I was unsure of the idea, since I can only offer a one-year warranty, and a 1TB SMR was $60 at the discount retailer. A week later, HDDs went up 10-20%, and continued climbing. Those same WD enterprise pulls are selling for $15+/drive now. I also bought a "recertified" Deskstar 8TB, pulled from an enterprise shelf, still in the mylar, w/a 1-year warranty. I paid $140, which seemed like a bit much. Turns out, they mislabeled the drive, as it's got a five-year warranty, making it worth $240 at the time. It's $300+ now. *I'm also offering the customers DVDs & CDs, with (some of) the data — for free — as well as cards with a URL for downloading any part of the "package" on the drives. Should be legitimate as "no purchase necessary" options. Reply
USAFRet teckel12 said: Spinning platter drives also work if you're desperate enough. And they're cheap (for now). The difference between HDD and (almost) any SSD type is huge. The difference between the various flavors of SSD…not so much. Reply
Notton 2.5", 9.5mm Z-height, 4TB HDD does not exist. They're either 2TB & 9.5mm, or 4~6TB & 15mm. Where as SATA SSD does 4TB & 7mm. Not that I expect these drives to be cheap enough to make a SATA SSD NAS out of. Though the other part of the equation is… QNAP is the only one offering a 2.5" specific NAS. If you're asking why? Portability. There's a huge difference between NVMe, 2.5" and 3.5" NAS portability. Reply
USAFRet Notton said: Though the other part of the equation is… QNAP is the only one offering a 2.5" specific NAS. If you're asking why? Portability. There's a huge difference between NVMe, 2.5" and 3.5" NAS portability. A 2.5" SATA SSD fits just fine in a 3.5" slot in a QNAP. I have that exact config…a 480GB SanDisk SSD as the system drive, in a 4 bay TS-453a. Reply
thewindmind The actual cost-effective solution right now is buying used enterprise SATA silicon. You can pick up four 480 or 512gb enterprise drives for $45/each, or around 180 dollars for 4 and stripe them using Windows Storage Spaces. Modern motherboard chipsets easily handle the 500megabytes/sec speed of each drive's controller, x 4 drives to hit 2000 megabytes per second bandwidth without hitting a DMI bottleneck. You get ~2tb of fast storage for ~$180. Because enterprise drives have dedicated DRAM and power-loss protection, they deliver a perfectly flat, unwavering read and write curve. You get massive, sustained throughput that budget NVMe or new consumer SATA drives simply cannot maintain. It means accepting the risk of a zero-redundancy striped array and treating it strictly as volatile scratch space. But for high-performance staging, strapping together used enterprise tanks is vastly superior to paying the current premium for enterprise NVMe or suffering through the cache throttling of budget consumer drives. Reply
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