Prime Day - 4TB SSD SATA 2.5" WD Blue (TLC 3D NAND) for $370

[hmw]

As the title says - WD's 3D NAND (TLC and not QLC) 4TB SSD. Sure it's SATA but it's going to be better than the Samsung 4TB QLC SSDs

It's a prime day deal so probably will be around for ~ 24 hours

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-4TB-Internal-SSD/dp/B07QV3XGCP/

 

[Samir]

Interesting to see the sub <$100/TB price get extrapolated out to 4TB now.

 

[Bjorn Smith]

Just be aware, this drive only have 600TB endurance Total.

WD Blue™ SATA Internal SSD Hard Drive 2.5”/7mm cased | Western Digital

Ready for your high performance computing needs, a WD Blue™ SATA SSD offers high capacity, enhanced reliability, and blazing speed.

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So its a nice drive, but 600TB is not a lot for a server drive - my nvme drive I have had for about a year or more have already written 317 TB, so I would hate to buy a "cheap" drive and have it die in a couple of years.

But for desktop usage or archive only storage, its perfect I guess.

 

[Jaket]

Just be aware, this drive only have 600TB endurance Total.

WD Blue™ SATA Internal SSD Hard Drive 2.5”/7mm cased | Western Digital

Ready for your high performance computing needs, a WD Blue™ SATA SSD offers high capacity, enhanced reliability, and blazing speed.

shop.westerndigital.com

So its a nice drive, but 600TB is not a lot for a server drive - my nvme drive I have had for about a year or more have already written 317 TB, so I would hate to buy a "cheap" drive and have it die in a couple of years.

But for desktop usage or archive only storage, its perfect I guess.

Yes, there is a reason why enterprise drives are so highly rated.
We only use them these days in our data centers. Even more for anything with heavy writes like MySQL servers.

 

[hmw]

So its a nice drive, but 600TB is not a lot for a server drive - my nvme drive I have had for about a year or more have already written 317 TB, so I would hate to buy a "cheap" drive and have it die in a couple of years.

But for desktop usage or archive only storage, its perfect I guess.

Sure - but your 4TB NVMe drive isn't going to be $370 on sale new anytime soon. There's a reason why Enterprise drives have huge over-provisioning and cost significantly more. Your NVMe is more likely to be 3.2TB and have 25 ~ 35% over-provisioning

You can also do the same trick with SATA SSDs. Just use half the disk and it will act like it's over provisioned and raise the endurance *significantly*. This is what I do with my Crucial MX500's - although Micron's utilities are way better than WD and allow you to decrease the LBA count instead of just creating hidden partitions (which may not work in all use cases).

But as a read focused storage, this price for a new drive - is awesome. For example, I need to take 3TB of 'sneaker net' style backups from some servers and this does the job perfectly - mount it into the server, copy the files without having to worry about cooling some NVMe disk etc, load it into new server and snooze while the backup is being loaded

(edit) The NAS focused WD RED 4TB SSD (https://www.amazon.com/Red-SA500-NAS-NAND-Internal/dp/B07YFGTXHT) has an endurance of 2500 TBW, but isn't on sale and costs $520

 

[rafale77]

Not so much of a prime day deal but you can also have the additional option of going 8TB QLC for $775. So it is also <$100/TB (well almost)

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