Sabrent Launches World's First 8 Terabyte M.2 NVMe SSD

trparky · May 22, 2020

Because most of us have smaller, faster, SSD-based storage for our most important programs (operating system and core programs) and leave the rest on spinning rust drives. When we do want to play a game, we're just swap games from the HDD to the SSD and back again. Remember, NTFS supports symbolic links and folder junctions.

robb · May 22, 2020

trparky said:
Because most of us have smaller, faster, SSD-based storage for our most important programs (operating system and core programs) and leave the rest on spinning rust drives. When we do want to play a game, we're just swap games from the HDD to the SSD and back again. Remember, NTFS supports symbolic links and folder junctions.

No, MOST of the people I have had discussions about this with had a single NVME drive and no other hard drives at all. They said even 1 tb was plenty which is laughable to me. And no way in hell I am sticking a noisy slow ass mechanical drive in my modern pc and fooling with swapping newer games in out of the goddamn NVME drive.

Makaveli · May 22, 2020

My current build I have no spinning rust drives will never add any my system is very quiet because of it.

Single NVME for OS + Apps
Raid 0 Sata SSD's for games
USB 3.0 western digital passport 2TB for Downloads and temp storage.

Valantar · May 22, 2020

Any spinning rust lives in the NAS, I'm not putting that stuff into any of my other PCs. No thanks.

ObiFrost · May 22, 2020

robb said:
good grief it is taking forever for even 4 tb NVME from others to come out. I cant even comprehend how in the hell people build $2500 gaming comps and get by with just 2 tb or even in many cases a pathetic 1 tb drive. I go back and forth in tons of games plus like to benchmark and test games so I have over 5 tb of games installed. and really that is not even half my library but many of the games I dont have installed are older outdated games that are small. I am using a couple of Samsung 860 4 tb SATA drives and really want go NVME soon on my next build but wanting an 8 tb pcie 4 drive so hopefully that will not be too much longer.

They put most of their budget into other hardware or water cooling. Not everyone needs TBs of storage, if they play 2-3 gamea concurrently. Workstation requirements is another talk.

robb · May 22, 2020

ObiFrost said:
They put most of their budget into other hardware or water cooling. Not everyone needs TBs of storage, if they play 2-3 gamea concurrently. Workstation requirements is another talk.

I mostly talking about people where budget is not really a big concern. Games are big and only getting bigger so what in the hell is the point of a top end gaming pc if you dont even have enough room to put plenty of games on it? Again I am the type of person that actually plays and tests many modern games so no way in hell I am going to be re downloading games over and over or spending time transferring games back and forth onto a fast drive. FFS one of the biggest concerns of the new consoles is their puny SSD drive size which will be a pain in the ass for many.

ObiFrost · May 22, 2020

robb said:
I mostly talking about people where budget is not really a big concern. Games are big and only getting bigger so what in the hell is the point of a top end gaming pc if you dont even have enough room to put plenty of games on it?

I doubt you visit show-off reddit subs and forums where people dump $$$$ for Minecraft, Fortnite and eSport titles, even if the budget is not a concern, they don't seem to give much crap. Lacking space? Then they delete those games.

Again I am the type of person that actually plays and tests many modern games so no way in hell I am going to be re downloading games over and over or spending time transferring games back and forth onto a fast drive.

Well, they don't and I assume you live in US, because EU broadband is quite cheap.

robb · May 22, 2020

ObiFrost said:
I doubt you visit show-off reddit subs and forums where people dump $$$$ for Minecraft, Fortnite and eSport titles, even if the budget is not a concern, they don't seem to give much crap. Lacking space? Then they delete those games.

Well, they don't and I assume you live in US, because EU broadband is quite cheap.

What the hell does the cost of broadband have to do with it? No matter the cost, MOST people cant get extremely fast internet where they can download large games in matter of minutes. And even if I could get insanely fast internet it would be no where as fast as already having the game on my SSD when and if I want to play or test it. And constantly having to delete games and redownload them is asinine. AGAIN I built a high gaming pc to play and test games and I want my games to be ready to play and test immediately and not waste time redownloading, deleting and reinstalling or swapping them out from other drives.

SK-1 · May 23, 2020

Weird. I just purchased (less than 5min. ago) a 1TB Saberent M.2 drive and this is the 1st thing I see and read afterward? We must live in a simulation lol. But yes...8tb is noice!

Nater · May 26, 2020

robb said:
What the hell does the cost of broadband have to do with it? No matter the cost, MOST people cant get extremely fast internet where they can download large games in matter of minutes. And even if I could get insanely fast internet it would be no where as fast as already having the game on my SSD when and if I want to play or test it. And constantly having to delete games and redownload them is asinine. AGAIN I built a high gaming pc to play and test games and I want my games to be ready to play and test immediately and not waste time redownloading, deleting and reinstalling or swapping them out from other drives.

My household has burned through our 1TB data cap with Comcast in less than a weekend multiple times now. Fortnite & Call of Duty updates hitting together across 3 PC's can damn near do it on it's own.

Valantar · May 26, 2020

Nater said:
My household has burned through our 1TB data cap with Comcast in less than a weekend multiple times now. Fortnite & Call of Duty updates hitting together across 3 PC's can damn near do it on it's own.

Data caps on landline broadband should be banned. There is zero reason for them to exist.

Nater · May 26, 2020

Valantar said:
Data caps on landline broadband should be banned. There is zero reason for them to exist.

Oh believe Comcast has been told if they ever bill me the extra $10/GB I'm cancelling service. They haven't yet.

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