02-18-2022, 04:40 PM
Lew Zealand wrote:
I'd avoid a refurbed one of these because this uses QLC, the NAND with the lowest write capacity.
New is fine if you know how to use it (for data storage, not a boot drive) but not as a refurb.
I would typically agree. In this case, I suspect (based on my previous experience buying "refurbished" Samsung SSDs from Best Buy) that these are likely returns with little/no use. I will verify each drive I receive.
FWIW, these have 720 TBW endurance rating. So, on average, you could write about 2TB per day to the drive for about 1 year straight and only then would you exhaust its expected life (assuming starting from new). If filling the drive with new data daily is your use case, probably not a great fit for you. But if you're like most users, writing a few dozen/few hundred GB a day is your norm, you're probably good to go for 3-5 years at least.
Also FWIW, the Crucial BX500 2 TB SSD has 720 TBW rating. WD Blue 2 TB SSD has 600 TBW.
Again, YMMV. Don't buy this if it doesn't fit your needs or use case. For me it represents a really solid value.