WD are mudding the waters a lot with far too many products and far too many occurrences of bait and switch for SKUs. Seems like for now Samsung and Seagate remain "safe" options.
This is nothing new over the LaCie Rugged SSD Pro I got back in 2020. When are we gonna see an integrated Thunderbolt/USB4 + flash controller, like the Silicon Motion SM2320 is for USB 2x2?
I mean, it's lovely that they have made this product, but literally the only thing i want to see from WD's protable drive division is a USB4 product that can do full drive capacity writes at speeds greater than that achievable by USB 3.2x2.
It’s better to just get a better performing drive such as a sn770 or sn850 or Samsung 980 pro and slap it in a thunderbolt enclosure, such as that made by Acasis, and you will get excellent performance. I’ve been doing this for a couple years now…
Would you name the "many" TB+USB enclosures? I only know a handful of TB enclosures and most of them are either slow (sometimes only 2 PCIe lanes connected) or don't have USB Fallback and all of them are quite expensive, so the price difference to the sandisk is not huge at least for 1 TB and if you match it with an SSD that is as fast probably negligible.
The Acasis/Delock I have myself and it has compatibility issues. My 970 Evo Plus while quite fast inside a computer is very slow in the Acasis case.
I just checked prices: the USD prices listed in the article look o.k., but the EU prices are outrageous. The 1 TB drive is as much over here as the 2 TB in the US. For this price they can keep it
What I want to know is where are all of those Gen 5 internal SSDs that were suppose to be available for purchase in Oct. '22? What a crock to promote products that can't be purchased.
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Chaitanya - Thursday, October 6, 2022 - link
WD are mudding the waters a lot with far too many products and far too many occurrences of bait and switch for SKUs. Seems like for now Samsung and Seagate remain "safe" options.hubick - Friday, October 7, 2022 - link
This is nothing new over the LaCie Rugged SSD Pro I got back in 2020. When are we gonna see an integrated Thunderbolt/USB4 + flash controller, like the Silicon Motion SM2320 is for USB 2x2?schmadde - Saturday, November 5, 2022 - link
More competition will eventually lead to lower prices - at least I hope so.According to this test the Sandisk is significantly faster than the LaCie, though.
R3MF - Friday, October 7, 2022 - link
I mean, it's lovely that they have made this product, but literally the only thing i want to see from WD's protable drive division is a USB4 product that can do full drive capacity writes at speeds greater than that achievable by USB 3.2x2.Make me one of those.
Exotica - Friday, October 7, 2022 - link
It’s better to just get a better performing drive such as a sn770 or sn850 or Samsung 980 pro and slap it in a thunderbolt enclosure, such as that made by Acasis, and you will get excellent performance. I’ve been doing this for a couple years now…hubick - Friday, October 7, 2022 - link
Last I checked there were no enclosures that had USB fallback compatibility though?shanti_shakti - Sunday, October 9, 2022 - link
There are many such TB3/USB fallback enclosures available, and they have been available for a long time.I’ve using a couple from ‘Acasis’ for around a year now, with Samsung 980 Pro drives inside. Work perfectly via TB3 and USB.
schmadde - Saturday, November 5, 2022 - link
Would you name the "many" TB+USB enclosures? I only know a handful of TB enclosures and most of them are either slow (sometimes only 2 PCIe lanes connected) or don't have USB Fallback and all of them are quite expensive, so the price difference to the sandisk is not huge at least for 1 TB and if you match it with an SSD that is as fast probably negligible.The Acasis/Delock I have myself and it has compatibility issues. My 970 Evo Plus while quite fast inside a computer is very slow in the Acasis case.
I just checked prices: the USD prices listed in the article look o.k., but the EU prices are outrageous. The 1 TB drive is as much over here as the 2 TB in the US. For this price they can keep it
Techie2 - Monday, October 10, 2022 - link
What I want to know is where are all of those Gen 5 internal SSDs that were suppose to be available for purchase in Oct. '22? What a crock to promote products that can't be purchased.Ryan Smith - Tuesday, October 11, 2022 - link
They will not be available until November.As far as I can recall, this was always the plan; no one announced availability for October.
https://images.anandtech.com/doci/17550/52687281.j...
mikegrok - Tuesday, October 11, 2022 - link
So, it is a SSD with mediocre performance, will not thermally throttle, and will survive a trip through the washing machine.mikegrok - Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - link
It could be good for travel photographers, ie while loading the sea plane your camera bag gets dropped in the water, your photos don't get lost.schmadde - Saturday, November 5, 2022 - link
Mediocre performance? What other external TB drives do you know that are faster?