News One of the Fastest 4TB SSDs Is Now Only $289: Real Deals

[Admin]

SSDs, in particular, seem to be lowering their prices almost every day recently, in a bid to outdo the competition, which is fantastic news for us PC hardware consumers.

One of the Fastest 4TB SSDs Is Now Only $289: Real Deals : Read more

 

[MiniITXEconomy]

Uffda, man... do I really need all that speed for gaming, though? I'm sitting on a Gen 3 PCIe SSD and I think that's perfectly fine for the likes of The Witcher 3, or CoD: MWII. I think $289 is too rich for my blood, especially when you consider options from Silicon Power, which can give you 2 TB of Gen 3 speeds for just $80.

 

[USAFRet]

Uffda, man... do I really need all that speed for gaming, though? I'm sitting on a Gen 3 PCIe SSD and I think that's perfectly fine for the likes of The Witcher 3, or CoD: MWII. I think $289 is too rich for my blood, especially when you consider options from Silicon Power, which can give you 2 TB of Gen 3 speeds for just $80.

No.
Your game performance will be NO different.

 

[Math Geek]

i've been waiting for the 4 TB drives to drop like the 1 and 2 TB models have. this is a good start.

i'm not looking at speed, but just reliability and the extra space. it's crazy how easily i am filling up a 2 TB drive. and it's not movies and music. it's ...well... i'm not sure what it all is but dang i must have installed everything i ever had ever on that drive to fill it up.

*lights the candle* hi i'm math geek and i'm addicted to storage space

 

[bit_user]

For those willing to run a U.2 drive, you can get an even better PCIe 4.0 drive for a little more money. I just found Provantage is selling the 3.84 TB Solidigm D7-P5520 for $311!

PROVANTAGE: Solidigm SSDPF2KX038T1N1 Solidigm SSD D7-P5520 Series (3.84TB, 2.5 inch PCIE 4.0 X4, 3D4, TLC)

Get Fast Service & Low Prices on SSDPF2KX038T1N1 Solidigm SSD D7-P5520 Series (3.84TB, 2.5 inch PCIE 4.0 X4, 3D4, TLC) and Much More at PROVANTAGE.

www.provantage.com

Here, you can see what makes this drive so special:

Solidigm P5520 Maintains Lead in Enterprise Workloads

The primary trend that is easy to see across a wide range of tests is that the Solidigm P5520 offers exceptional performance and very low latency across the board.

www.storagereview.com

Endurance is rated at 7 PBW.

I was about to buy one of these on ebay, for $355! Not only is Provantage's price cheaper, but since they're an authorized reseller, you get the full manufacturer's 5 year warranty!

 

[bit_user]

it's crazy how easily i am filling up a 2 TB drive. and it's not movies and music. it's ...well... i'm not sure what it all is but dang i must have installed everything i ever had ever on that drive to fill it up.

Windows can sometimes fill up a drive with random logfiles. I saw this happen on a Windows 7 machine, years ago. I used a tool called SpaceMonger to find out what was using up all my free space.

 

[Math Geek]

i've been using this for a while now to explore what is where.

Folder Size Explorer for Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 - Free Disk Analyzer

Show folder sizes in Windows File Explorer with this free disk space analyzer. View disk usage charts - find the largest files and folders.

www.mindgems.com

just need to stop and take a few minutes to figure out what folders are taking up the space. mostly it's just a ton of programs. but i'm sure some log files and other similar files are part of it.

i install stuff all the time and don't often delete it if i don't use it. i'm sure there's more than a few GB worth of stuff i don't use i can delete. but then i won't has as much of an excuse to buy some 4 tb drives as the prices drop

 

[USAFRet]

i've been using this for a while now to explore what is where.

I generally use WinDirStat.
Single file abberations are easy to spot.

 

[Math Geek]

I generally use WinDirStat.
Single file abberations are easy to spot.

that sounded familiar. i have that installed as well. don't know why or how, but it's installed. lol

yah i got a problem......

 

[Sippincider]

SSDs, in particular, seem to be lowering their prices almost every day recently, in a bid to outdo the competition

While 4TB in a new Mac Studio or Pro is a $1000 build-to-order upgrade.

Sorry Tim, but the days of milking this cash cow are over.

 

[bit_user]

i've been using this for a while now to explore what is where.

Folder Size Explorer for Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 - Free Disk Analyzer

Show folder sizes in Windows File Explorer with this free disk space analyzer. View disk usage charts - find the largest files and folders.

www.mindgems.com

just need to stop and take a few minutes to figure out what folders are taking up the space. mostly it's just a ton of programs. but i'm sure some log files and other similar files are part of it.

SpaceMonger is the only tool I've seen which offers a 2D hierarchical view of your disk space:

Source: https://www.stardock.com/products/spacemonger/
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I actually paid the $15 license fee, when I needed to use it to find those logfiles hogging my disk space. While I was trying to verify its proper owner, to make sure my copy was fully legit (it turns out StarDock indeed bought the rights to it), I ran across a blog entry by its author, describing the algorithm he devised for the 2D tree view:

SpaceMonger Treemapping Redux | Sean Werkema's Blog

www.werkema.com