News Superfast 4TB SSD is Just 9 Cents Per GB: Real Deals

[Admin]

Pick up the WD Black SN850X 4TB for only $379 on Newegg - that comes down to just $0.09 per gigabyte.

Superfast 4TB SSD is Just 9 Cents Per GB: Real Deals : Read more

 

[BlahBlahBlahWowza]

Please update this story. When anyone clicks on the link, it takes you to Newegg yes but the price is actually $399.99 USD, and does not include heatsink.

 

[chalabam]

Is time to benchmark one large M.2 SSD against 2 half size in RAID 0

 

[USAFRet]

Is time to benchmark one large M.2 SSD against 2 half size in RAID 0

Please elaborate why RAID 0 + SSD is a good thing.
Details, please....not just "twice as fast".

Actual user facing performance.

 

[Amdlova]

Raid 0 on these ssd with desktop cpu will be a disaster. People do raid 0 with nvme ssd when have a 32 core cpu and need tons of data to process. Editing a 8k footage from a Red camera
Last time i have worked with a red 4k. Lost a day just to take off the data. 3 days to get work done because the storage sucks.

 

[chalabam]

Please elaborate why RAID 0 + SSD is a good thing.

That's easy, if you look at the benchmarks you can see that... oh, wait, we need the benchmarks first.

Raid 0 on these ssd with desktop cpu will be a disaster.

That's just an opinion. It needs actual benchmarks to know instead of suspecting.

You can be wrong, or right, but on any case, we need the benchmarks to know how much wrong or right you are.

And no, you cannot point at older benchmarks with older hardware.

 

[kyzarvs]

Is time to benchmark one large M.2 SSD against 2 half size in RAID 0

RAID 0 (striping) means increasing the chance of failure for each drive you add. 2x drives have double the chance of a failure of one, 3 drives have triple chance etc. Striping only needs one failure to fubar the whole partition.

I mean back in the day I had XP on 2x 10k rpm raptors - that was bonkers quick to boot. Not sure I'd notice RAID0 these days on an O/S drive.

 

[Amdlova]

I want to do raid 0 with intel optane dimm 512gb how dumb can be. 2000 us dollar in hardware to show raid 0 can't be good.

 

[USAFRet]

That's easy, if you look at the benchmarks you can see that... oh, wait, we need the benchmarks first.

That's just an opinion. It needs actual benchmarks to know instead of suspecting.

You can be wrong, or right, but on any case, we need the benchmarks to know how much wrong or right you are.

And no, you cannot point at older benchmarks with older hardware.

I don't know about you, but I use my system for doing things, not looking at artificial benchmark numbers.

Even in the earliest tests of SSD + RAID 0, the benchmark numbers were huge.
The actual user facing benefit, not so much.

Can you point us to any independent test whereby SSD (of any make/model/size) + RAID 0 brings an actual benefit to typical user use cases.

NOTE: This is NOT counting server farms or big database servers. And again, not simple benchmark numbers.

 

[jkflipflop98]

That's what he's saying. Unless you can produce some numbers you know as much as anyone else. . . squat.

 

[USAFRet]

That's what he's saying. Unless you can produce some numbers you know as much as anyone else. . . squat.

"he" who?
"you" who?

To whom are you referring?

 

[jkflipflop98]

Chalabam. He's simply saying there is no data anywhere for running SSD drives in RAID. Everyone immediately jumps on his case stating "there's no benefit blah blah blah".

The guy just asked for some data. You stated he is wrong for wanting data.

Wanting more data is never wrong.

 

[USAFRet]

Chalabam. He's simply saying there is no data anywhere for running SSD drives in RAID. Everyone immediately jumps on his case stating "there's no benefit blah blah blah".

The guy just asked for some data. You stated he is wrong for wanting data.

Wanting more data is never wrong.

No, I'm NOT saying he is wrong for wanting more data.
Quite the opposite.

But this is a standard PCIe 4.0 drive. Just large, and relatively cheap.

Just that RAID 0 + SSD has never been shown to give any real user facing benefit.
Benchmarks DO look great though.

 

[Imacflier]

OR, buy a 4TB from Amazon for $200: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN5WXP8R?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

 

[USAFRet]

OR, buy a 4TB from Amazon for $200: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN5WXP8R?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

The referenced WD:
"This drive has a massive 4TB of capacity and blazing fast 7,300MB/s read and 6,600MBps write speeds combined with a high endurance TBW of 2400TB. You also get a 5-year warranty. "

Your linked LEVEN JP600:
"Read Speed Up to 2100 MB/s"

So...not the same at all.