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  • nandnandnand - Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - link

    I don't care about PCIe 5.0 speeds. PCIe 3/4 is fine and will be throughout the decade because of the consoles.

    Write endurance looks better than expected. I think the last TLC drive I looked at was 600-to-1.
  • Silver5urfer - Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - link

    Seagate FireCuda has a lot of failure problems, you can see on various places these ended up dying randomly. I suspect the Controller and Firmware. And like Samsung 980 Pro which is also having shoddy QC and caused the drive failures into read only mode. 990 Pro same issue. I do not think these are fixable issues. Plus I often see Seagate's RMA service being poor despite their DRS option. I checked on STH forums for an optimal SSD with proper endurance most of the users mention about Enterprise M.22110 standard sadly these do not have 4TB options.

    Plus the most important factor is linear drive performance with post pseudo SLC cache exhausted. Seagate performs much better than most but the earlier issues caused me to avoid it on top of the 530's uber high price tag. SN850 is a mess, just go to WD forum and check the mega thread about it's issue, which is basically it vanishes from the BIOS and on AMD machines it has more problems.

    Ultimately due to non enterprise M.2 2280 standard we have poor quality. WD Red SN700 is looking very good but limited by PCIe3.0 although you won't even get more than 3500Mbs consistent write performance on even PCIe4.0 SSDs as it will exhaust the cache. Shame we still do not have Optane replacement, perhaps will never happen.
  • SanX - Friday, July 14, 2023 - link

    Worst speeds among all Gen5.
    Absurd prices

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