Not bad. TLC anything still makes me feel like caution is advised. I'd prefer 3D MLC instead, but there's a significant enough price advantage in TLC that it's pretty tempting. I suspect that for most low demand workloads, the endurance is more than enough anyway to keep someone happy until a new computer/drive is purchased on (ideall) some sort of more durable replacement for NAND.
Man that read IOPS is pathetic on the sub 512 models.
And sadly, yet another SSD where the 1TB+ models come "in the near future". Why is it that nobody can seem to figure out this "1TB NVME SSD" except samsung?
Perhaps they can't compete on price or performance. It could be that their main customers are only just beginning to nibble on 512GB models at the current price, and whatever price they produce isn't going to sell. Perhaps by the time the 1TB models are selling, they'll be better processes and higher performing components and suddenly the company is stuck trying to pawn off useless products instead of making any profit/income.
Every SSD-related article I read, be it a full review or just an announcement like this one, I come away thinking "...or you could just buy a Samsung".
At least in other spaces, TVs or Android phones or whatever, there are compelling reasons to buy other brands. With SSDs? Not so much.
What's really interesting is that despite how banal the market is for these drives these manufacturers don't seem even slightly interested in differentiating themselves. So if they know they aren't going to beat the competition on performance you'd think they might try beating them on price or on capacity or a combination of these and form factor or SOMETHING. But no, they all seem quite complacent with crawling together in lockstep shuffling out the dreck as everyone else from quarter to quarter. Obviously, some people MUST be buying these drives otherwise they wouldn't keep releasing them, I just can't figure out who they are.
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BrokenCrayons - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Not bad. TLC anything still makes me feel like caution is advised. I'd prefer 3D MLC instead, but there's a significant enough price advantage in TLC that it's pretty tempting. I suspect that for most low demand workloads, the endurance is more than enough anyway to keep someone happy until a new computer/drive is purchased on (ideall) some sort of more durable replacement for NAND.ddriver - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Not bad? It is as bad as nvme gets.Visual - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Need price info to decide if I should care or not...TheinsanegamerN - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Man that read IOPS is pathetic on the sub 512 models.And sadly, yet another SSD where the 1TB+ models come "in the near future". Why is it that nobody can seem to figure out this "1TB NVME SSD" except samsung?
HomeworldFound - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Perhaps they can't compete on price or performance. It could be that their main customers are only just beginning to nibble on 512GB models at the current price, and whatever price they produce isn't going to sell. Perhaps by the time the 1TB models are selling, they'll be better processes and higher performing components and suddenly the company is stuck trying to pawn off useless products instead of making any profit/income.HomeworldFound - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
And I meant 512TB. That's embarrassing. People know, no edit button ;)r3loaded - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Another day, another consumer-tier SSD that gets utterly crushed by Samsung.Exodite - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
I came here to express much the same sentiment.Every SSD-related article I read, be it a full review or just an announcement like this one, I come away thinking "...or you could just buy a Samsung".
At least in other spaces, TVs or Android phones or whatever, there are compelling reasons to buy other brands. With SSDs? Not so much.
Magichands8 - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
What's really interesting is that despite how banal the market is for these drives these manufacturers don't seem even slightly interested in differentiating themselves. So if they know they aren't going to beat the competition on performance you'd think they might try beating them on price or on capacity or a combination of these and form factor or SOMETHING. But no, they all seem quite complacent with crawling together in lockstep shuffling out the dreck as everyone else from quarter to quarter. Obviously, some people MUST be buying these drives otherwise they wouldn't keep releasing them, I just can't figure out who they are.