Still waiting for 4TB SATA/NVME SSD to fall below RM 1K, wake me up when they do

TRANSCEND 2.5" SSD230S SATA III 6GB/S INTERNAL SSD SOLID STATE DRIVE WITH 3D NAND FLASH - 4TB (TS4TSSD230S)  RM899.00
https://shopee.com.my/TRANSCEND-2.5-SSD230S...4a-b0757bc11a5f
*Not many reviews out there but i saw some reddit or TPU comments saying it's TLC & Dram

And Teamgroup... like no official presence in MY ah? On Amazon ,  MP34  4TB PCIe 3.0 Nvme  TLC DRAM going below USD 200

TRANSCEND 2.5" SSD230S SATA III 6GB/S INTERNAL SSD SOLID STATE DRIVE WITH 3D NAND FLASH - 4TB (TS4TSSD230S)  RM899.00
https://shopee.com.my/TRANSCEND-2.5-SSD230S...4a-b0757bc11a5f
*Not many reviews out there but i saw some reddit or TPU comments saying it's TLC & Dram

And Teamgroup... like no official presence in MY ah? On Amazon ,  MP34  4TB PCIe 3.0 Nvme  TLC DRAM going below USD 200

right, it's ok for your usage. the issue is not qlc. i had bad experience with dram-less ssds. the whole incident was like paying money for sufferring. the difference in price couldn't compensate time wasted to fix everything.

to be fair, that previous experience was most likely due to wrong use case. however, to avoid potential problems, and to make myself happier, i just stick to ssds with dram. hence, 3d-tlc + dram >>> qlc + hbm in this case hehe

edit: that's one of my very rare sad moments related to ssd. after all these years, i believe things have improved. however, the phobia is real lol!

yeah, i had phobia for dead HDD too, hence i wont even dare to touch Seagate HDD lol

i haven't really tried dram-less SSD.
i could just stick with 870 QVO since it still have dram, and price is same as those dram-less SSD

officially Samsung cutting the price now https://www.samsung.com/sg/memory-storage/s...tb-mz-77q8t0bw/
damn, raid 0 on 4 of these drive gonna be fun

TRANSCEND 2.5" SSD230S SATA III 6GB/S INTERNAL SSD SOLID STATE DRIVE WITH 3D NAND FLASH - 4TB (TS4TSSD230S)  RM899.00
https://shopee.com.my/TRANSCEND-2.5-SSD230S...4a-b0757bc11a5f
*Not many reviews out there but i saw some reddit or TPU comments saying it's TLC & Dram

And Teamgroup... like no official presence in MY ah? On Amazon ,  MP34  4TB PCIe 3.0 Nvme  TLC DRAM going below USD 200

yeah, i had phobia for dead HDD too, hence i wont even dare to touch Seagate HDD lol

i haven't really tried dram-less SSD.
i could just stick with 870 QVO since it still have dram, and price is same as those dram-less SSD

officially Samsung cutting the price now https://www.samsung.com/sg/memory-storage/s...tb-mz-77q8t0bw/
damn, raid 0 on 4 of these drive gonna be fun

Wow, this is too good to be true, there has to be some catch to this right lol.

It's TLC, and has DRAM for only 899?

TBW endurance is also decent at 2240 TBW for 4 TB.

EDIT:- One review on Amazon says it's basically the same internals as the Crucial MX500 4TB drive. Wow, makes me a bit more confident to buy now.

A buggy Windows 11 update keeps slowing down SSDs, https://www.techspot.com/news/99291-buggy-w...-down-ssds.html
https://www.windowslatest.com/2023/07/02/wi...ing-ssd-speeds/

   

Guess 1,000MB/s fast enuf for me 

i think this bug affects more than that. i have read user comments that stated the os boot time became longer than two minutes. this is just bad. who would have guessed that after so many years, when we are already used to under 30-sec boot (even with sata ssds), we are back again to the era of hdd boot time.

i think this bug affects more than that. i have read user comments that stated the os boot time became longer than two minutes. this is just bad. who would have guessed that after so many years, when we are already used to under 30-sec boot (even with sata ssds), we are back again to the era of hdd boot time.

bit the bullet again. I've decided to trust samsung once more. simply because I can't forgive myself passing on this dirt cheap price for a 2TB PCIe4. guess I'll regret later.

a new low price?

Windows 11, forever in alpha stage, who's the QA? end user.   
the feedback they provided will be applied to Windows 12, thank you very much!