Samsung T5 EVO Portable SSD Review: QLC Sets Sane Expectations, Insane Pricing
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  • DevAnalyzeOperate@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I genuinely have zero idea what the market is for giant portable drives which can’t read/write quickly but are more expensive than spinning rust. The nature of these portable drives is either you’re writing just a little data to them so you don’t need much storage, or you are writing a ton of data to them and want to probably run at TB3 speeds or better.

    • arahman81@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The writes only drop off in larger transfers, in small/moderate transfers its still faster than a HDD. Plus, the standard immunity to sudden movement.

      • DevAnalyzeOperate@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        If you’re doing small/moderage transfers, why do you need 8tb of capacity? Why wouldn’t you use, totally serious here, a 1tb usb stick which is going to go just as fast but cost a lot less and be smaller?

        I just don’t see the product market fit here. I just don’t know why this product exists other than an engineer at Samsung deciding they could do it so damn it they were going to do it. It seems to be either outperformed at the same price, or have an equivalent that gets the same job done for a lower price.

    • Ferrum-56@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Main thing I can think of is game drive for consoles. Games load a lot faster from SSDs but you don’t need high sustained speed. Mostly read-only so QLC is fine.

      • DevAnalyzeOperate@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I GUESS just because affordable 8tb QLC M.2 SSDs aren’t really a thing, but it still sounds mad stupid to me compared to using a 4tb QLC M.2 SSD like Crucial P3 which are fuck cheap. Or even step up to a Teamgroup MP34 4tb.

        How many fucking console games do people own? If you have enough to fill up a 4tb I’d say you should have bought a PC awhile ago.

        • Ferrum-56@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Cost is not prohibitive to everyone. Console owners are often not the type to buy an internal SSD and put it in an enclosure either. And a few TB is easy to fill up with games steadily reaching 200 GB nowadays. It’s not for me, but I can see who might want it.

    • johansugarev@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I use a Samsung qlc QVO 8tb drive to host my sound effects library. Has to be SSD because it can’t make a sound in the studio, needs to be very large and I should be able to move it when I travel. I’m the perfect customer for the t5 evo.

    • goldcakes@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s a QLC drive. It literally isn’t fast enough to consume 3.1 Gen 1. Sustained writes are like 60MB/s.

  • Vivid_Yielding@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Everyone in this thread complaining about slow speeds and the wrong USB version, without realising that the damn SSD is using a fucking SATA III interface… in 2023. I mean, it’s one way to cut costs but god damn…

    • red286@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Limiting the T5 EVO to 5 Gbps speeds with its USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C connector.

      The drive maxes out at 460MB/s throughput anyway, the USB 3.2 Gen 1 connection is “limiting” it to ~600MB/s throughput, which it will never hit because these drives are slow as shit.