Toooo small. Toooo slow. I feel like...live a 6 years ago. 128GB, 256GB volumes is normal for...2012. I thing that for 2018, 512GB must be a smallest volume per device in the market...With speed of read/write/copy X3 than 550MB/s.
Yup, 128GB is really too small for comfortable use as the only storage device in a computer. As for the speed, these are SATA drives so performance is going to stop at the point where the interface can't deliver more speed.
But... but... What if I ONLY need 128Gb and don't want to spend more $$$£££? Heck I have a Surface Pro 3, with only 64Gb (Bare minimum) that's using a 200Gb microSD card as storage.
Have you now seen how they force you, the free man, to buy one more device so you can comfortably enjoy the tablet, which should in principle be self-sufficient and for which you have already paid a decent amount of money.
128gb is perfectly fine for your average office computer or for someone who does not need much so I dissagree. Cheap 128gb drives most certainly have a place.
Yes, you're right, by now we should be able to get SATA devices that can perform faster 3X than the actual SATA III is capable of. Clearly they are deliberately crippling these devices to sell us incremental upgrades.
What's the point in releasing more SATA SSDs when existing models can totally saturate that interface? There's plenty of 500GB SATA SSDs with an MSRP of $140 or lower (and street prices sometimes approaching $100).
What we need are NVMe drives that can consistently get within 10% of the performance of a Samsung 960 that are at least 20% cheaper.
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Pork@III - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
Toooo small. Toooo slow. I feel like...live a 6 years ago. 128GB, 256GB volumes is normal for...2012. I thing that for 2018, 512GB must be a smallest volume per device in the market...With speed of read/write/copy X3 than 550MB/s.PeachNCream - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
Yup, 128GB is really too small for comfortable use as the only storage device in a computer. As for the speed, these are SATA drives so performance is going to stop at the point where the interface can't deliver more speed.damianrobertjones - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
But... but... What if I ONLY need 128Gb and don't want to spend more $$$£££? Heck I have a Surface Pro 3, with only 64Gb (Bare minimum) that's using a 200Gb microSD card as storage.Pork@III - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
Have you now seen how they force you, the free man, to buy one more device so you can comfortably enjoy the tablet, which should in principle be self-sufficient and for which you have already paid a decent amount of money.shabby - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
But but there's a nand shortage...qlum - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
128gb is perfectly fine for your average office computer or for someone who does not need much so I dissagree. Cheap 128gb drives most certainly have a place.voodoobunny - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
Yes, you're right, by now we should be able to get SATA devices that can perform faster 3X than the actual SATA III is capable of. Clearly they are deliberately crippling these devices to sell us incremental upgrades.sing_electric - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
What's the point in releasing more SATA SSDs when existing models can totally saturate that interface? There's plenty of 500GB SATA SSDs with an MSRP of $140 or lower (and street prices sometimes approaching $100).What we need are NVMe drives that can consistently get within 10% of the performance of a Samsung 960 that are at least 20% cheaper.
FunBunny2 - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
"What we need are NVMe drives that can consistently get within 10% of the performance of a Samsung 960 that are at least 20% cheaper."and how many years will it be until there are only 20 or 30 percent of motherboards with only SATA?
SunnyNW - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
"What's the point in releasing more SATA SSDs when existing models can totally saturate that interface?"To lower their own BOM.