No worries, i'm happy to see a detailed response.
I can see now where you're coming from.
However, there is something else we haven't talked about, and that is network bandwith vs QLC write speeds. Looking at the data in other reviews, QLC seems to settle at around 100MB/s, it takes almost a saturated gigabit connection to overcome that, which is not all that very common. There is still usefulness in the drive i think; in the real world most people would be using the drive for other stuff as well, so that would take away some of the overhead.
Upon further examination, i believe there's a bigger picture that we've missed so far. With the included software, there's the possibility of arranging big storage spaces with (probably) mechanical HDDs, with this SSD working as a cache drive. With such arrangement, there i can see a good chance of this drive being more useful than competing drives, even more so than the torrent case scenario
I can see now where you're coming from.
However, there is something else we haven't talked about, and that is network bandwith vs QLC write speeds. Looking at the data in other reviews, QLC seems to settle at around 100MB/s, it takes almost a saturated gigabit connection to overcome that, which is not all that very common. There is still usefulness in the drive i think; in the real world most people would be using the drive for other stuff as well, so that would take away some of the overhead.
Upon further examination, i believe there's a bigger picture that we've missed so far. With the included software, there's the possibility of arranging big storage spaces with (probably) mechanical HDDs, with this SSD working as a cache drive. With such arrangement, there i can see a good chance of this drive being more useful than competing drives, even more so than the torrent case scenario
