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https://slickdeals.net/f/15627487-samsun...db8c784ea6&src=foryou_recombee
I just ordered a handful of these for various uses. Great price. This is not the highest performance SSD, but might be a good fit for other bulk storage needs where speed is of some import.
I have ordered a half dozen BB "refurbished" Samsung SSD drives in the past, and they have all been basically like new with extremely low amounts of usage. I figure if one shows up with 200 TB of data written, I can just return it. But all of the ones I've gotten in the past have been maybe 1x-2x capacity having been written with no issues. I assume they were all just low usage returns.
Not a perfect deal / worth it for everyone, but might be for some of you. YMMV
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Yeah that's a great value! I don't really have a need right now but thanks for sharing.
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I guess I'm missing this more technical detail, if data has been erased, how does one know how much data has been previously written?
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it's something that all drives store/report, and that data can be read by a number of different utilities.
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They have been $145 new, if that makes a diff -- and I've seen a couple of other 2TBs at $140? crucial BX and Sandisk and WD blue.
or if you need bigger, 4 TB for $300, so $150 per 2 TB. (think it was the QVO? would have to look in my history.)
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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.
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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.
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This looks like it might work as my music drive. It would get read from more than it would be written to, probably. And another for backup.
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deckeda wrote:
This looks like it might work as my music drive. It would get read from more than it would be written to, probably. And another for backup.
Yup, sounds like a good fit.
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FWIW, the drives arrived today. According to SMART data, the drive with the most data written has just over 400 GB written. The lowest just over 200 GB. For my needs, that's basically new and worth it for me.
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