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• XeonPlanner - Monday, July 23, 2018 - link

  Disappointed that there is no 2TB version. Want a large and (relatively) cheap SSD.

• Alexvrb - Tuesday, July 24, 2018 - link

  Large and cheap? That's still mostly 2.5" territory, although there are some M.2 SATA drives that are pretty close. Like the WD Blue M.2 SATA 2TB.

• quiksilvr - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link

  PCIE: Samsung 970 EVO $800
  M2: WD Blue 3D NAND 2TB PC SSD $400
  SSD: Micron 1100 MTFDDAK2T0TBN-1AR1ZABYY $300

• boeush - Tuesday, July 24, 2018 - link

  Sheesh, now we're quoting QD64 numbers. As if QD32 wasn't already deceptive enough for "consumer"-targeted 'cheap' drives like this...
  
  One of these days, someone should undertake a giant class-action lawsuit against all these vendors, for blatantly deceptive advertising.

• Sivar - Thursday, July 26, 2018 - link

  QD64 is a perfectly reasonable metric for the use case of storing the data for an extremely overtaxed corporate database server on this M.2 SSD.

• Death666Angel - Tuesday, July 24, 2018 - link

  "However, the XG6 does support user-configurable overprovisioning using a new standard command from the NVMe 1.3a specification"
  -> What is the difference/advantage of this compared to just creating a partition of xx% of the full drive and having the spare area that way? :)

• smilingcrow - Tuesday, July 24, 2018 - link

  Unformatted user accessible space and space for over provisioning which is not available for formatting are treated differently.

• CheapSushi - Tuesday, July 24, 2018 - link

  Because now you just have a partition there doing nothing rather than the drive itself in a smart managed way doing a proper job on increasing the drives longevity.

• Tyns - Tuesday, July 24, 2018 - link

  What's the respective die sizes for their 256Gb and 512Gb 96L dies? BiCS bit density is way behind the competition.