"While enthusiasts are now focused mostly on SSDs with a PCIe 5.0 interface..."
I'm glad there are a few around that are absurd enough to mindlessly chase the next hyped up thing so they drive the perceived appeal of the previous generation of parts (or several years old consumer electronics) down to a pittance for those of us that are rational about the roles a computer can fulfill. Let them buy googaws and trinkets at a price premium so the rest of us can enjoy financial freedom and additional wealth.
one wag, thee perchance, remarked a while back that MLC SSDs will out live cockroaches. and the few remaining consumer SLCs (not many, IIRC, were made) until the Big Rip or Big Crunch.
It's good you didn't have an 840 with the firmware self-destruction or later firmware "fix" that reduced performance to like 80MB/sec or an 850 EVO 1TB with the cursed MEX controller causing random non-detect condition eventually killing the drive or one of the defective batches of 870 EVO's that went out to retail or the...you get the picture.
Samsung has lost almost every OEM contract and has no design wins in years from OEM's for a reason. They went to shit.
Hehe! That's some of the most hillbilly criticism of a corporate entity I've ever seen, but maybe you're right in spite of the colorful, backwoods-y moonshine way of stating it. However, every company has problems with products on occasion so it's also important to consider how things are handled after a problematic product release or post-sale update and view actions through a holistic lens instead.
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James5mith - Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - link
Actually that raises a really interesting question:How do DRAMless SSDs work in a PS5? I know they work with the OS in Windows to allocate system RAM as a drive buffer.
But does the Playstation OS support that as well?
meacupla - Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - link
PS5 doesn't support HMB, and instead the SSD uses part of its TLC NAND as a "SLC cache".These Gen4 drives are fast enough that not having DRAM isn't all that noticeable in games.
PeachNCream - Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - link
"While enthusiasts are now focused mostly on SSDs with a PCIe 5.0 interface..."I'm glad there are a few around that are absurd enough to mindlessly chase the next hyped up thing so they drive the perceived appeal of the previous generation of parts (or several years old consumer electronics) down to a pittance for those of us that are rational about the roles a computer can fulfill. Let them buy googaws and trinkets at a price premium so the rest of us can enjoy financial freedom and additional wealth.
MrSpadge - Thursday, February 1, 2024 - link
The 128 GB Samsung 830 in my desktop is getting a bit old, but still does the job just fine. Yes, I'm reffering to the SSD from 2012.FunBunny2 - Thursday, February 1, 2024 - link
one wag, thee perchance, remarked a while back that MLC SSDs will out live cockroaches. and the few remaining consumer SLCs (not many, IIRC, were made) until the Big Rip or Big Crunch.Samus - Friday, February 2, 2024 - link
It's good you didn't have an 840 with the firmware self-destruction or later firmware "fix" that reduced performance to like 80MB/sec or an 850 EVO 1TB with the cursed MEX controller causing random non-detect condition eventually killing the drive or one of the defective batches of 870 EVO's that went out to retail or the...you get the picture.Samsung has lost almost every OEM contract and has no design wins in years from OEM's for a reason. They went to shit.
PeachNCream - Sunday, February 4, 2024 - link
"They went to shit."Hehe! That's some of the most hillbilly criticism of a corporate entity I've ever seen, but maybe you're right in spite of the colorful, backwoods-y moonshine way of stating it. However, every company has problems with products on occasion so it's also important to consider how things are handled after a problematic product release or post-sale update and view actions through a holistic lens instead.
shabby - Thursday, February 1, 2024 - link
Marketing department is trying to stay relevant before being replaced by ai.darkx132 - Thursday, February 1, 2024 - link
Give me 8TB gen4 for $400meacupla - Thursday, February 1, 2024 - link
I'd be fine with 8TB gen3 for $400, so long as it has >2600TB endurance.ballsystemlord - Friday, February 2, 2024 - link
The endurance looks to be rather low, with their 4TB offering 1200TBW. Which means that their 1TB offering is probably around 300TBW.meacupla - Saturday, February 3, 2024 - link
The corsair info page says 600TBW for the 1TB model.