2TB MSI Spatium M461 SSD is on sale for $84 — just 4 cents per GB

[Admin]

The MSI Spatium M461 2TB SSD is marked down on the official MSI website to just $84, down from its usual $99.

2TB MSI Spatium M461 SSD is on sale for $84 — just 4 cents per GB : Read more

 

[usertests]

This SSD is built around the Phison E21T controller and uses modern 3D NAND flash memory.

Someone forgot to mention it's QLC NAND. One reason I passed on it. No DRAM cache either.

 

[Shiznizzle]

450 TBW. I will pass

Spend maybe a 1/3 more of that 89 they want and get a WD Black or Samsung that now approaches the 2400 TBW mark.

I see lots of weird named NVMe SSDs, or even known brands, that have a phenominal price per GB ratio. Till you read the fine print. 100 TBW, 220 TBW or in this case 450 TBW.

While this may be fine for people who do not mess around with large files sizes, for those who do this drive is an instant skip.

Heck

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...newegg-and-comes-with-a-free-32gb-flash-drive

Even that drive is better at 2x + the TBW @1024 vs 450 and for americans that drive only costs 10 dollars more.

 

[ThereAndBackAgain]

It's crazy to me, the lack of transparency about TLC and QLC NAND types from SSD manufacturers given what a difference it can make (depending on use case), especially when your drive is almost full. I had no idea about it until recently, and nowhere on the spec sheet on MSI's website does it mention it's QLC.

I have an MSI Spatium 371 NVMe drive, and it also is QLC, which I didn't know about until well after I bought it. Its performance has been fine for me, since I'm not doing a lot of heavy writing to it and thus not prone to filling up its SLC cache. But it would have been nice to have been informed about such things beforehand.

Wait until the dread day when PLC is a thing and QLC is the new high-end NAND type...

 

[usertests]

Wait until the dread day when PLC is a thing and QLC is the new high-end NAND type...

It'll be great. PLC, HLC, S(epta)LC, and finally OLC, diminishing gains with diminishing endurance. Write once and don't look at it wrong.

Kioxia Demos HLC 3D NAND and Talks About OLC NAND

 

[ThereAndBackAgain]

It'll be great. PLC, HLC, S(epta)LC, and finally OLC, diminishing gains with diminishing endurance. Write once and don't look at it wrong.

Kioxia Demos HLC 3D NAND and Talks About OLC NAND

Oh, man. I would hope that PLC is the end-stage and the rest just never become viable. Unless they find a way to make it work with high write endurance and higher speeds. In which case I vote for 7LC as the official designation for the one following HLC, just for the avoidance of doubt.

 

[Co BIY]

Still hard to get past the name.

 

[Andre-V]

Someone forgot to mention it's QLC NAND. One reason I passed on it. No DRAM cache either.

I was looking into some reviews about this SSD and only one mentioned no DRAM. There's also no mention for the flash type(TLC or QLC) even on MSI website nd even in the spechsheet, the same with DRAM. The lack of any mentioning started to get suspicions. Its clear the very low price is because its a cheap SSD.