Why, it's the best deal if you wanna go full SSD. And I mean THE ONLY choice.
Just a few days ago Samsung finally dropped the price for the 4TB 860 EVO below $1000.
In 1 month SSD's finally broke the barrier of 20-25c per GB, the market was stagnant. Now 1TB drives from Crucial or Samsung can be found from $165. (17c/GB)
Error in the "MyDigitalSSD BPX Pro Specifications" table: the "IOPS (QD1)" rows are showing throughput in MB/s instead of an IOPS number...
One could convert to IOPS, assuming the random read/writes were all done with 4 KB payloads - so e.g. 55 MB/s would then translate to 55,000/4 = 13.8k IOPS, and 325 MB/s then equates to 81.3k IOPS.
That said, I do appreciate the "IOPS" numbers being quoted at QD1 (as opposed to the typical QD32, QD64, or QD<to infinity and beyond>.) It's refreshing to see such honesty: a much more realistic representation of real-life performance under most typical consumers' usage. Truth in advertising, FTW!
Agreed, QD32+ is for servers and misleading. As an end user i just need to know r/w speeds of single files. Does anyone know if any OS' take advantage of SSD's when copying? I mean if i can copy 5-10x faster by doing 5-10 files in parallel, all OS' really should do that. But then there are varying degrees of performance for each SSD, so i'm guessing it's a minefield getting it right.
Blame Microsoft. They should have supported Opal for Bitlocker, but chose to require IEEE 1667 instead. Pretty much every vendor supports Opal, but few support IEEE 1667.
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CheapSushi - Friday, September 7, 2018 - link
Looking forward to seeing E12 QLC drives.Samus - Sunday, September 9, 2018 - link
I'm looking forward to seeing an 8TB SSD for under $1000 bucks.Lolimaster - Sunday, September 9, 2018 - link
Micron 1100 2TB x4 $1184Alexvrb - Sunday, September 9, 2018 - link
Let me guess... you work in sales.Lolimaster - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
Why, it's the best deal if you wanna go full SSD. And I mean THE ONLY choice.Just a few days ago Samsung finally dropped the price for the 4TB 860 EVO below $1000.
In 1 month SSD's finally broke the barrier of 20-25c per GB, the market was stagnant. Now 1TB drives from Crucial or Samsung can be found from $165. (17c/GB)
Loyaldk - Monday, September 10, 2018 - link
You can actually buy a Micron 1100 with 2 TB's of storage for 300 dollars. Better deal.sor - Friday, September 7, 2018 - link
I’d expect SSDs shipped in the millions of the chips are in mass production. 20 is nothing.gfkBill - Saturday, September 8, 2018 - link
Forgot the /s?sor - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
I guess it does say 20*+*.boeush - Saturday, September 8, 2018 - link
Error in the "MyDigitalSSD BPX Pro Specifications" table: the "IOPS (QD1)" rows are showing throughput in MB/s instead of an IOPS number...One could convert to IOPS, assuming the random read/writes were all done with 4 KB payloads - so e.g. 55 MB/s would then translate to 55,000/4 = 13.8k IOPS, and 325 MB/s then equates to 81.3k IOPS.
That said, I do appreciate the "IOPS" numbers being quoted at QD1 (as opposed to the typical QD32, QD64, or QD<to infinity and beyond>.) It's refreshing to see such honesty: a much more realistic representation of real-life performance under most typical consumers' usage. Truth in advertising, FTW!
brunis.dk - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - link
Agreed, QD32+ is for servers and misleading. As an end user i just need to know r/w speeds of single files. Does anyone know if any OS' take advantage of SSD's when copying? I mean if i can copy 5-10x faster by doing 5-10 files in parallel, all OS' really should do that. But then there are varying degrees of performance for each SSD, so i'm guessing it's a minefield getting it right.Mikewind Dale - Saturday, September 8, 2018 - link
"a variety of encryption methods (AES-256, TCG Opal, TCG Pyrite)"But no IEEE 1667 (i.e. eDrive for BitLocker). Sigh.
DigitalFreak - Saturday, September 8, 2018 - link
Blame Microsoft. They should have supported Opal for Bitlocker, but chose to require IEEE 1667 instead. Pretty much every vendor supports Opal, but few support IEEE 1667.Alexvrb - Sunday, September 9, 2018 - link
I'm pretty sure they chose whatever the government / banking entities required.