$400 4TB XPG SX8100 PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 SSD

[MrNoBody]

Today's Newegg "Shell Shockers" offers the XPG SX8100 Series: 4TB PCIe Gen3x4
M.2 2280, 3D TLC SSD for $399.99 w/ Free Ship and NO promo code needed.
Five Year Warranty. https://www.newegg.com/xpg-4tb-sx8100/p/0D9-00DF-000A5

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[mikebw]

$100/TB seems like an incredible value.

[clay]

mikebw wrote:
$100/TB seems like an incredible value.

I just wish it were for a slightly higher end drive.

[jdc]

clay wrote:
[quote=mikebw]
$100/TB seems like an incredible value.

I just wish it were for a slightly higher end drive.
Out of curiosity, if you had one, what/where/how would you use it?

Whats a "higher end" drive?

I wish I could get a 911 for the price of a GTI...

[clay]

jdc wrote:
[quote=clay]
[quote=mikebw]
$100/TB seems like an incredible value.

I just wish it were for a slightly higher end drive.
Out of curiosity, if you had one, what/where/how would you use it?

Whats a "higher end" drive?

I wish I could get a 911 for the price of a GTI...
I already have 2.5 TB NVME storage in my Hackintosh. Have another 2TB Samsung NVME on order as well after a good price last week. I work in video and find that I fill up my internal drives more quickly than I can offload files to my NAS after I finish projects. I'd love a 4TB or 8TB NVME drive just so I don't have to keep filling up NVME slots with smaller drives and having to keep track of where projects are stored. I know I could get 2.5" SATA SSD's, but trying to not buy more of those unless I really need to. If those were significantly cheaper than NVME for the capacity that I'm looking for, I'd go that route, but the price points haven't really diverged much.

The Samsung 970 line, and the ADATA XPG 8200 are both good drives (I've got one of each). If I'm dropping serious $$ on a big NVME, I want to at least get a good warranty in the event of failure. And yes, everything is backed up multiple places.

[jdc]

If its just for storage, in the grand scheme of things... would it really matter?

its an XPG, still rated 3500/3000 MB/s RW and 5 year warranty...

Have you seen the new Rocket and 980 that are doing 7000/5000 RW?

Of course, you prob need a new motherboard for that.

Is your NAS slow? Seems as tho even when I copy a few hundred GB from my 8200 to my RAID 0 it doesn't take all that long... but its via USB 3, not ethernet.

[clay]

jdc wrote:
If its just for storage, in the grand scheme of things... would it really matter?

Well, I'm working primarily with 4k ProRes 422 footage. When you're talking about several layers/multi-cam footage, scrubbing through the timeline, exporting master videos that are in the 100gb range, I'll take whatever speed benefits I can get. I'm easily saturating the SATA bus when working off of one of my SATA SSD's. I don't think I'm fully maxing out the NVME bus when exporting from/to one of those drives, but it is sure a good bit faster than SATA SSD.

jdc wrote:
its an XPG, still rated 3500/3000 MB/s RW and 5 year warranty...

I haven't done a ton of recent research to see the difference between the 8100 and 8200, other than that at some point I saw some difference/inferiority with the 8100 and I guess wrote that one off as an option. Again, if I'm spending multi hundreds on a quality NVME, I want to get whatever's widely regarded as the best/most reliable options.

jdc wrote:
Have you seen the new Rocket and 980 that are doing 7000/5000 RW?

Of course, you prob need a new motherboard for that.

Yeah, have seen those. My mobo won't take advantage of those yet. I'm pretty happy with this current gen of NVME and the boost it represents over SATA SSD. When the time comes, I'm sure I'll upgrade to the PCI 4 boards and look at the faster drives.

jdc wrote:
Is your NAS slow? Seems as tho even when I copy a few hundred GB from my 8200 to my RAID 0 it doesn't take all that long... but its via USB 3, not ethernet.

No, it's not slow. I'm mostly saying that I need to keep my current project data on my local drives until those projects are done, then I stick them on my NAS. It's a matter of simply not having enough local fast storage to keep all my projects at my fingertips. This fall has been crazier than normal with video work, and I'm finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. I'm sure my disk configuration will be more than adequate once I can get a couple projects off my plate.

[jdc]

clay wrote:
get a couple projects off my plate.

Im 100% with you on that. Im gonna put in 24 hour days for the next 2 weeks and it still wont be enough.

Sadly, don't think speeding up my computer will make any difference -- just too much work.. =(

Still doesn't stop me from wanting to update to a 2020 iMac... and 4 TB of NVMes hanging off the back for client storage. But need OWCs single or RAID external enclosures...