Definitely. Question is WHEN? WD blue is usually not a banger, but decent, so It's nice to see. I guess I will set an alarm if I see it for $200, and I guess I will not give more than $240, if any of my current drives die.
and? 'was' not 'is'? is that crucial's msrp or an amazon exclusive time limited sale? are other wd drives at msrp? i'm not going to bother checking camelcamelcamel for prices, it's still important to have multiple entities with global mass manufacturing capacity at the various performance tiers and price points
I have been running a few P3 4TB's for years since they launched and while great drives, this drive does have more endurance and more performance (on paper.) While you could get the P3 Plus and try to bridge the gap, the Plus is still inferior using older N48R NAND. BiCS6 has impressive endurance for QLC, likely due to its lower layer\density leaving less room for leakage.
But I wont be upgrading. My P3's are still at 96% and I seed torrents from the array 24/7. I know this sounds ridiculous because a single hard disk or array of smaller ones could do the job for much less, but performance IS important to me since I have a 10Gbit symmetrical connection that no inexpensive hard disk array can keep up with, uploading or downloading, let alone simultaneously, and I want to extract 100GB RAR packages without twiddling my thumbs for half an hour.
Quieter as well as faster. I used to download torrents to the hard disk, but it was noisy, hearing that constant racket. Changing the folder to the SSD brought it back to silence.
The overall spread is always so small in WD's lineup that 9/10 times I recommend their excellent WD_BLACK SN850X drive over others. Case in point: the 4TB SN5000 is $280 on Western Digital's site, while the SN850X is $310. That extra $40 gets you a HUGE increase in perf and latency: from 5.5GB/sec reads to 7.3GB/sec, 5.0GB/writes to 6.6GB/sec, 690K IOPS of random read up to 1200K IOPS.
I had the same suspicion as well, but these are the same write endurance numbers as the SN580 series, which uses the same NAND. So WD doesn't seem to be sandbagging on this specific drive family.
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shabby - Thursday, June 20, 2024 - link
Crucial p3 4tb qlc was $216 on amazon, try harder wd.ballsystemlord - Thursday, June 20, 2024 - link
Don't sweat it. The prices will probably fall over time.deil - Monday, June 24, 2024 - link
Definitely. Question is WHEN?WD blue is usually not a banger, but decent, so It's nice to see.
I guess I will set an alarm if I see it for $200, and I guess I will not give more than $240, if any of my current drives die.
kn00tcn - Thursday, June 20, 2024 - link
and? 'was' not 'is'? is that crucial's msrp or an amazon exclusive time limited sale? are other wd drives at msrp? i'm not going to bother checking camelcamelcamel for prices, it's still important to have multiple entities with global mass manufacturing capacity at the various performance tiers and price pointsSamus - Saturday, June 22, 2024 - link
I have been running a few P3 4TB's for years since they launched and while great drives, this drive does have more endurance and more performance (on paper.) While you could get the P3 Plus and try to bridge the gap, the Plus is still inferior using older N48R NAND. BiCS6 has impressive endurance for QLC, likely due to its lower layer\density leaving less room for leakage.But I wont be upgrading. My P3's are still at 96% and I seed torrents from the array 24/7. I know this sounds ridiculous because a single hard disk or array of smaller ones could do the job for much less, but performance IS important to me since I have a 10Gbit symmetrical connection that no inexpensive hard disk array can keep up with, uploading or downloading, let alone simultaneously, and I want to extract 100GB RAR packages without twiddling my thumbs for half an hour.
GeoffreyA - Sunday, June 23, 2024 - link
Quieter as well as faster. I used to download torrents to the hard disk, but it was noisy, hearing that constant racket. Changing the folder to the SSD brought it back to silence.kn00tcn - Thursday, June 20, 2024 - link
calling it budget too often, it's fine to call it mainstream, the green series is budget (and/or low end)>"WD seems to be using the higher performance of BiCS 6 to offset the switch from TLC to QLC"
is bics5 dense enough for 4tb single sided?
Ryan Smith - Thursday, June 20, 2024 - link
"is bics5 dense enough for 4tb single sided?"No.
NextGen_Gamer - Thursday, June 20, 2024 - link
The overall spread is always so small in WD's lineup that 9/10 times I recommend their excellent WD_BLACK SN850X drive over others. Case in point: the 4TB SN5000 is $280 on Western Digital's site, while the SN850X is $310. That extra $40 gets you a HUGE increase in perf and latency: from 5.5GB/sec reads to 7.3GB/sec, 5.0GB/writes to 6.6GB/sec, 690K IOPS of random read up to 1200K IOPS.[email protected] - Thursday, June 20, 2024 - link
And the TBW just keeps dropping...patel21 - Thursday, June 20, 2024 - link
Can it be possible that they are understating the actual TBW numbers for 2TB so that their 4TB TBW numbers look more apt.meacupla - Friday, June 21, 2024 - link
Yeah, that 900TBW is oddly low. If the 1TB model is 600TBW, the 2TB model should be 1200TBW.Ryan Smith - Friday, June 21, 2024 - link
I had the same suspicion as well, but these are the same write endurance numbers as the SN580 series, which uses the same NAND. So WD doesn't seem to be sandbagging on this specific drive family.eastcoast_pete - Monday, June 24, 2024 - link
The 2 TB drive uses TLC NAND, the 4 TB here is QLC. QLC NAND doesn't have a great reputation when it comes to write cycle endurance.patel21 - Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - link
Hence the motivation for understating 2TB TBWHideOut - Monday, June 24, 2024 - link
yes, the author did state that.