Review Addlink NAS D60 SSD review: Finally a good caching NVMe SSD

[Admin]

The Addlink NAS D60 is a solid drive for NAS, workstations, and other servers, thanks to its power loss protection and high-endurance flash. This yields decent sustained performance and a high TBW rating, but weak all-around performance.

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[Pierce2623]

Yep those sequential write speeds and write IOPs definitely shout “no pSLC caching going on here”. That being said, I imagine you’ll have hard time ever pushing this drive below 500MB/sec sequential write which would be blazing fast compared to most consumer drives after they run out of caching capacity on a large write.

 

[rdgordon]

So they made a worse version of an optane drive (compared to the non-dimm form optane) but for people who's use case may require them to have xeon processors, allowing them to utilize dimm sticks of optane, which blows that memory out of the water in performance (and is fully non-volatile).

 

[rdgordon]

So they made a worse version of an optane drive (compared to the non-dimm form optane) but for people who's use case may require them to have xeon processors, allowing them to utilize dimm sticks of optane, which blows that memory out of the water in performance (and is fully non-volatile).

Just a shot in the dark... it's harder to get those sweet sweet referral bucks shilling an out of production item...

 

[sjkpublic]

Big fan of TBW. But the write performance is extremely weak. And the price is on the high side.

 

[GabrielFerrazTPU]

Guys it's written in the reviews, it's meant to be a cache drive, with an SLC Cache implementation it wouldn't have such great steady state performance as it is right now.
Yes it's not "THE" fastest sustained speeds, buts that's BiCS5 fault.
@sjkpublic @rdgordon

 

[Pierce2623]

Big fan of TBW. But the write performance is extremely weak. And the price is on the high side.

The write performance isn’t “weak”. It doesn’t use pSLC caching. That means on large writes that spill outside the pSLC cache on consumer drives it won’t drop down to 100-200MB/s the way consumer drives often do.

 

[Pierce2623]

Just a shot in the dark... it's harder to get those sweet sweet referral bucks shilling an out of production item...

Quoting yourself to double down on a dumb and mostly wrong point….Priceless. The Optane drives you mention cost more second hand than these do new. You’re obviously too dumb to understand that this drive will NEVER drop down to a minute fraction of its rated speed like crappy consumer drives do if you spill out of the pSLC cache and at this price it’s the only drive to offer that capability. They purposely avoided the extremely peaky write performance of most consumer drives.

 

[sjkpublic]

The write performance isn’t “weak”. It doesn’t use pSLC caching. That means on large writes that spill outside the pSLC cache on consumer drives it won’t drop down to 100-200MB/s the way consumer drives often do.

Ok. I've seen the drop down in writes on other NVME drives. Yes 100-200. However, I have other drives that do a consistent 3000 plus write or better. The TBW is nice. But I can burn out a drive with faster writes and it will last over 3 years. And in 3 years there will be something bigger, faster and cheaper.

 

[Pierce2623]

Ok. I've seen the drop down in writes on other NVME drives. Yes 100-200. However, I have other drives that do a consistent 3000 plus write or better. The TBW is nice. But I can burn out a drive with faster writes and it will last over 3 years. And in 3 years there will be something bigger, faster and cheaper.

No consumer drive maintains 3000MB/s after you spill out of the pSLC cache. You just can’t natively write to the flash that fast with current hardware and when caching capacity runs out you have to write directly to flash. There’s no other options. The only ones that get anywhere close are the Samsung models that use MLC instead of TLC.