3.1 Gen 1 is a joke. Should have been Gen 2 (10Gbps) minimum.
It’s a QLC drive. It literally isn’t fast enough to consume 3.1 Gen 1. Sustained writes are like 60MB/s.
Everyone in this thread complaining about slow speeds and the wrong USB version, without realising that the damn SSD is using a fucking SATA III interface… in 2023. I mean, it’s one way to cut costs but god damn…
I genuinely have zero idea what the market is for giant portable drives which can’t read/write quickly but are more expensive than spinning rust. The nature of these portable drives is either you’re writing just a little data to them so you don’t need much storage, or you are writing a ton of data to them and want to probably run at TB3 speeds or better.
The writes only drop off in larger transfers, in small/moderate transfers its still faster than a HDD. Plus, the standard immunity to sudden movement.
Main thing I can think of is game drive for consoles. Games load a lot faster from SSDs but you don’t need high sustained speed. Mostly read-only so QLC is fine.
Limiting the T5 EVO to 5 Gbps speeds with its USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C connector.
Lmfao
And 60 MBps write speed after the cache is filled
qlc is not reliable enough, and these speeds suck balls.
qlc is not reliable enough
I’m fine with it, I want 16TB NVMe M2 cards at a reasonable price for my next TrueNAS build
only storage ive had fail since the seagate 1tb hdd days were qlc flash drives.
ive been running hdd’s and ssd’s, mostly tlc, since 2013 in RAID arrays with Areca cards. Before that was all HDD since the PCI-X days. Currently have 8x 4TB 850 Evos, theyd be 8TB but only QLC available in that capacity.
I have never had a tlc drive die on me, only qlc and only recently.
i hear you on cheaper storage, but reliability and speed matter as well, primarily reliability in my case.
My old PC is currently using a 660p, no problems.
Who makes the NAND for it? YMTC QLC are known to fail, but never had an issue with Samsung QLC.
Buddy just had a 970 Plus 1TB nvme die out of nowhere, one of the switcharoo models that samsung quietly swapped out tlc for qlc.
Its fairly widespread…
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/100-of-my-qlc-drives-are-now-dead.315081/
I rely on multi-ssd RAID arrays for work, as do many others in my line of work. None of us use TLC. Its cheaper and higher capacity, but NOT reliable.