Micron Expands SSD Portfolio With New Crucial P310 2280 Gen 4 SSD

[Chrispy_]

Not sure if serious or not...

He's saying that the endurance rating is only 220 total drive writes (for the 2TB drive) which is about 1/4 of a typical TLC drive's endurance rating.

 

[Wirko]

Not sure if serious or not...

Haha, I see my message was easy to misunderstand. "440 TBW" - that's sufficient technical data for you to know what you're buying. Not a sufficient TBW rating.

I still have a plan to buy a very cheap QLC SSD and torture it with writing until it lets out the magic smoke. There are issues with my plan, though. The budget I approved to self is around 11 €. But the cheapest branded SSDs (Kingston A400, Patriot Burst Elite) are all TLC at lowest capacities, looking at TPU SSD database. There's a great probability that a Fanxiang/Fikwot/Intenso 120GB or 128GB SSD would be TLC as well, so half less fun. Besides, I expect those models to be slow too, so I might give up before the noble task is fulfilled.

 

[Chrispy_]

Haha, I see my message was easy to misunderstand. "440 TBW" - that's sufficient technical data for you to know what you're buying. Not a sufficient TBW rating.

I still have a plan to buy a very cheap QLC SSD and torture it with writing until it lets out the magic smoke. There are issues with my plan, though. The budget I approved to self is around 11 €. But the cheapest branded SSDs (Kingston A400, Patriot Burst Elite) are all TLC at lowest capacities, looking at TPU SSD database. There's a great probability that a Fanxiang/Fikwot/Intenso 120GB or 128GB SSD would be TLC as well, so half less fun. Besides, I expect those models to be slow too, so I might give up before the noble task is fulfilled.

you won't find low-capacity TLC very easily as the increased controller cost isn't offset by the increased capacity QLC provides.

500GB is likely the smallest QLC drive you'll see anywhere on the market, at probably twice you throwaway science budget.

You have a better chance of finding QLC in a budget laptop with a 500GB drive, and it's "spare" once you've put a decently sized and performing replacement into it.

 

[A&P211]

Good grief that's abysmal!
At least newer QLC isn't usually that slow.

Its the samsung 870 8tb 2.5in SSD. The SLC cache is not very large, I only use it for project video storage.

 

[kapone32]

No, they are telling us we should buy more drives (with all complications this brings with more expensive motherboards and lane bifurcations), not bigger drives - even readers here often agree that in the age of streaming and cloud storage noone needs larger drives at all!

There were now several waves of announcements on how 8 TB drives are coming in larger numbers, we were even told in various tech shows that the current models will later come in 8 TB capacity, and nothing. Sure, we have couple of them, but the price is ridiculous - when 4 TB drives could be had below 200 EUR you could at least expect some drive to approach 400 EUR + some fee for cutting edge largest capacity - but no, they remained firmly above 800 EUR... There aren't even many reviews of these drives, too dear. We were teased cheaper large capacity drives, and larger capacities for consumer drives this year from several makers, but they might have diverted all this push to satisfy the (for now) better paying AI server market!

So I wouldn't hold my breath.

Funny thing is that I came into a nice cash bonus. As a PC Gamer I wanted to make sure that I could commemorate it with something I would not usually buy for my PC. I saw the Micron 5210 on sale on Newegg for a cool $849 Canadian. That was in 2020. So yes 8TB has been with us but they seem to think that enterprise is the only place to innovate NVME.

you won't find low-capacity TLC very easily as the increased controller cost isn't offset by the increased capacity QLC provides.

500GB is likely the smallest QLC drive you'll see anywhere on the market, at probably twice you throwaway science budget.

You have a better chance of finding QLC in a budget laptop with a 500GB drive, and it's "spare" once you've put a decently sized and performing replacement into it.

There was a time where NVME was going down. I am pretty sure I bought the 4TB NV2 for less than $300. The prices have gone back up though. There are some cheap Chinese drives on Amazon but they are all Chinese (Not Taiwan) like Kingspec. Kingston needs to drop the price of the NV2 back to normal levels.

 

[Minus Infinity]

BICs9 QLC drives can't come fast enough. For the love of god, if they can actually improve wear rate, throughput and capacity at sensible prices they may finally make some sense. Samsung is making big claims, but then again, they promised QLC would be an era of larger capacity, cheaper drives with good performance and all claims were total lies.

 

[rusty caterpillar]

It seems that some P3 1TB but, I think mostly P3 + goes to slow write speeds specially writes, to overprotect the drives, even at 50 C. If the controller was coded to throttle the drive to lower writes even at low and medium temps than yes that drive will last
Just think where most ppl will place their fast M2, above GPU or under, mostly because MBO offer only that or are the fastest slots. So, heat is an issue for M2 and external causes increase that considerably backplate and fin orientation of GPU are ready to roast. Maybe this throttling at low and medium temps is what they chose to do to increase longevity or to use cheaper chips in general.

Back in time I've seen this desktop from Dell with a slow 5400 rpm HDD from Seagate known to have flaws over whole series. Dell capped the HDD to 4200rpm in the bios and of course as a result with only 256 MB ram windows was loading terrible. Drive was running hot even on 4200rpm.
The idea is Dell capped the drive so it won't die in warranty. They bought a flawed HDD series cheap as hell and found a solution
Just my 5 cents.

I think is better if I go for WD SN850X instead of P3 +