WD_BLACK 4TB SN850X NVMe Amazon.com $377

That was one helluva deal! I bought my 4TB 850X for $345 on sale at Newegg a couple months ago.
 
This is a fantastic drive. I have the 4tb. In fact I loved it so much I bought another one in 1tb version to run as an OS drive and the 4tb as the game drive. Both are blazing fast and run cool also. Idle is 30-35c and under max load it's 50-60c.
 
Question: Do drives like this matter yet when it comes to games/ windows boot times? Or are we still at marginal increases over pcie3 drives?
 
I got a 4TB one for about $260 during the storage day sale after a few other rebates. I installed it and it seems to be running great, but I haven't really done anything much with it that would stress it...yet.
It replaced 3 other 1TB NVME drives in my system! Got my GPU back up to X16! (not that it matters much at all.)
 
Great deal but I still can't believe that if you fill out an SSD over 50% it drops down the speed by so much. So in reality this 4TB SSD is only 2TB. Wish you could fill up an SSD 90% without any speed decrease.
 
Bought a pair of these (a 2TB and a 4TB) a month ago and have been super happy with 'em. I got them on sale, but still ended up paying like $50 more than this.
 
Hulk said:
Great deal but I still can't believe that if you fill out an SSD over 50% it drops down the speed by so much. So in reality this 4TB SSD is only 2TB. Wish you could fill up an SSD 90% without any speed decrease.
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Huh?
Where did you get that idea.

As long as you aren't doing sustained a single sustained transfer that fills up the SSD without giving it time to clear the cache, it won't slow down to anywhere near 50%. I've already hit over 50% used on this 850X and even with some minor use happening elsewhere on the drive I'm still getting 7000+/6000+ read/write speeds in crystal disk mark.

Most of my NVME SSDs have been closer to 80-90% full their entire life and not a single one has ever dropped 50% in speed.
 
TheSlySyl said:
Huh?
Where did you get that idea.

As long as you aren't doing sustained a single sustained transfer that fills up the SSD without giving it time to clear the cache, it won't slow down to anywhere near 50%. I've already hit over 50% used on this 850X and even with some minor use happening elsewhere on the drive I'm still getting 7000+/6000+ read/write speeds in crystal disk mark.

Most of my NVME SSDs have been closer to 80-90% full their entire life and not a single one has ever dropped 50% in speed.
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Everyone is a production database these days, I guess. lol
 
NightReaver said:
Hence why everyone trips over themselves to buy 7k+ read/write drives to......use for steam.
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Hey!
Only 1tb of this 4tb drive is dedicated to steam.
🤣

Although, honestly, now that I can fit everything else on a single gen 4 drive instead of 3 separate drives, I won't be transferring 100+ gigabyte raw files around different drives for production work anymore so who knows how I'll feel about the actual speed increases. This was mainly for convenience for me.
 
TheSlySyl said:
Hey!
Only 1tb of this 4tb drive is dedicated to steam.
🤣

Although, honestly, now that I can fit everything else on a single gen 4 drive instead of 3 separate drives, I won't be transferring 100+ gigabyte raw files around different drives for production work anymore so who knows how I'll feel about the actual speed increases. This was mainly for convenience for me.
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Oh I know. Hey, if I can buy a gen 4 drive for a marginal price increase over a gen 3 I will. I just know there's some who only play games and are like "I need 990 pro/sn 850 drives!" lol.
 
Yep, I got my first batch when they were $299... which were for client builds, and they have all said they really like them, & wanted moar, even though I explained that the prices were fluctuating daily, or sometimes hourly, they still wanted moar... so I kept watching & managed to grab anutha batch for $329, which was still a great price !

I just checked a few minutes ago, and they are currently @$382 on da Zonnzer...:D
 
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